Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-05-21
General Schofeld's Order as to Registra

ton.
HEADQUARTERS FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT, !
State of Virginia,
Richmond Va, May Is, 1867.
General Orders No. %.
The following regulations are prescribed for
the registration of voters as required by the act
OF congress Of March %, 1867:
l. Two or more registering officers will be
appointed Tor each county and city, according
to It's size, and one for each lnagisterlal district
or ward
2. One principal Board of Registration, and
as may assistant Boards as may be convenient,
each to consist of three officers, will be organized
IN each county or city by the President OF the
Board, under instructions heretofore issued from
these headquarters.
3. The President of the Board for the county
or city Will apportion the districts or wards
among the principal and assistant Boards, de-
termlne the order in which the several districts
or wards assigned to each Board shall be regis
tered, the time to be allotted to each, and will
instruct the registering officer of each district
or ward to publish accordingly the notices here
matter required, and to make the necessary
preparations for the meeting of the Board in
his district or ward
4. The President of the Board will also DIES
lgnate the place of registration in each district
or ward, which will be selected with reference
to the general convenience of voters
5. There shall be one place ofregistration, and
only one in each magistelial district or ward,
where all the qualified voters, residents of the
district or ward, shall be registered.
6. 1t shall be the duty of the registering Of
tlcer OF each district or ward to register the
voters Of that district or ward, keep the records
prepare the required reports to the commanding
general, and to do such other ministerial duty
as may be ordered by the Board or by the Pres
ident thereof. But all questions Of the right
OF persons to be registered must be decided by
the full Board.
T. The Board of Registration shall, in each
district or ward, in five Of the most public places
therein, cause written or printed notices to be
posted, which notices shall designate the time
and place, when and where the registration will
be held, the number Of days the Board will be
| in session for the purpose Of registration, and
the length of time each day, and inviting all
persons qualified to vote under the provisions
Of the act of Congress of March 2, 1867, entitled
AN act to provide for the more efficient govern
ment of the rebel States, and the act sup
Elementary thereto passed March %, 1867, to
appear before the Board for Registration.
s. These notices shall be posted at least ten
days before the commencement of the registra-
ton in the district or ward in which they are
posted.
9. Persons shall vote only in the district or
ward where they are registered.
TO- On the day and at the time named in the
notices hereinbefore mentioned, the Board of
Registration for the district or ward shall meet
at the place designated in such notice, and
having taken the prescribed oath, enter upon
their duties
IL. The room in which the registration is to
be made shall be so arranged that the Board of
Registration, and persons admitted as challeng-
ers and witnesses, shall be separated from those
| to be registered; no one being permitted within
the enclosure, in additionto those named except
the person to. be registered or examined for re-
gistration. The person to be registered being
admitted one by one, and their entry and cgress
| to be so arranged as to avoid confusion.
| II. For the purpose Of securing just regis
| tration, and to prevent the registration of any
person not entitled to vote under the provisions
Of the said act of Congress Of March I'd, 1867,
or the act supplementary thereto-three white
and three colored persons, voters of the district
shall be selected by the Board, who shall be
| allowed to remain with the Broad, and who
shall have the privilege, and whose duty it shall
| be, as we'll as that of each member of the Board,
to challenge the right of any person to be reg
istered, who. in the opinion of the person chal-
longing, is disqualified as voter by reason of
any of the causes set forth In said acts of Con-
gress Upon such challenge being made, the
Board shall examine the person presenting
himself for registration in reference to each cause
of dis qualification mentioned in said act and
the act supplementary thereto. Evidence shall
also be heard, if offered, to substantiate the
cause of challenge, or to rebut that offered in
support Of it.
Is. In registering the voters the names of
the white and colored persons registered shall
be entered in separate columns of the list kept
for that purpose, which lists, after the registra-
ton shall have been completed, shall be alpha-
betically arranged-the names of the white and
colored voters still being kept in separate
columns. Three separate lists shall be kept.
The first shall contain the names of all voters
who shall be registered without challenge after
| taking the prescribed oath set forth in the 1st
section of the supplement to the aforesaid act.
The second, those who may be registered after
challenge made and the third, those who may
be rejected upon challenge.
| IA Opposite the name of each person chal
| lenged, whether registered as entitled to vote
or not the cause of challenge will be clearly
stated, and also the facts relating thereto as
developed by the examination Of the Board
Is. The Board shall sit, at the place designat-
| ed in the notices hereinbefore mentioned. at
least eight hours each day for not less than
three consecutive days, Sundays excepted, as
set forth in said notice, to register the names
of all persons in said district who are qualified
to vote under the provisions of the act of the
act supplementary thereto hereinbefore men
toned 1t is expected that all persons entitled
to be registered, and who are not prevented by
sickness or other unavoidable cause, will present
themselves for registration at this session of the
Broad
l6 Upon the completion of the registration.
the Board shall forward to the commanding
general copies of the lists required to be kept,
certified in the following form.
! We do certify, on honor, that the above is a
correct list Of the persons registered as voters
without challenge Registered as voters after
| challenge and examination or rejected upon
challenge las the case mag be, in the
district Tor ward, } county Tor city, e. ],
State of Virginia:
A-B-, President of Board
Co. Registering Officer of the county
| Tor city,.
E-F-, Registering Officer of the dis
trict Tor ward).
| They shall also cause copies of the lists to be
posted in three of the most public places of the
district or ward.
H. Two weeks Or more after the registration
| has been completed, and after ten days public
notice, the Board shall reconvene at the place
of registration for the correction of the publish
ed lists, at which time additional evidence may
be heard In reference to the cases of those re-
jected upon challenge at the previous registra-
ton, when those thus rejected may be registered
if the evidence warrants it.
is. The name of any one registered after or
without challenge may be stricken from the roll