The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-22
GENERAL sHERIpARs LAsT ORDER.


Proclaimed - The AppOrtiOnment OF
Delegates.
WAsHneToN, August 22.-The following i'm
portant special order has just been recelved:-
UnApoI1A RTERs FIFTH MILITARY DrsTR1cr
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, August IA IN
gTess published in General Orders No 49, War
benartment Adjutant. Generals Office. current
S1iii he held i'm the Slate of Louisiana on the
g7th and 18th days OF september next, to deter
mine whether ConVen.tl .n tlon t snaIl be held, and
biisSing a Constitution and civil government
for the State loyal to me me ~ Union,
rho Convention Will DC composed OF ninety
o,.ht roenobers that being the number of the
166st numerous branch Of the State Legislature
az ~ ,,ear 1880 The total number of registered
IN tne ~ the state is l27 $780, which being divided
No The Number of delegates, gives l8O2 as the
number OF voters faTteen ovs befoTe the cleo
,ion BOARDS of Registers VIII, after having given
reasonable public notice Oh the tline ana place
.oIton lists and upon being satisfied that any
nerson not entitled thereto mas been registered,
1pvIil strike the name Of such person from the
iiet and such person shall not be allowed to
vote The Boards Will also, during the same
period add to the registry the names oi all per-
Te0uired by law, who have not been already
registered No person shall be entitled TO be
TeSistered or to vote by reason of any executive
pardon or amnesty for any act or thing which,
without such pardon or amnesty, would dis
qualify him for registration or voting.
III 10 secure as nearly as practicable an
eoniiabie representation in the Convention
Tie delegates are apportioned among the seve-
raj parishes and districts as follows-The parish
of Ascension shall elect two; the parish of AS
sumption shall elect two; the parish OF Avo-
yelles shall elect two; the parish of East Baton
Rouge shall elect three; the parishes of West
Baton Rouge and Point Coupee shall elect three;
the parish OF Blenyille snail elect one; the
CaddOshall elect three; the parish of Calcaseu
and Vermilion shall elect one; the parishes of
Caldwell and Ouachita shall elect two; the
parishes of Carroll and Morehouse shall elect
Ihree the parish of CatahOule shall elect one;
the parish of Claiborne shall elect two; the
parish OF Concordia shall elect two; the
parishes Of DeSoto and Sabine shall elect
two; the parishes of East and West FeliclRna
shalI elect three; the parishes of Franklin and
Madison shall elect two the parish OF Iberville
shall elect two; the parishes OF Jackson and
Winn shall elect Two; the parish OF Jefferson
snail elect four; the parish of Lafayette shall
elect one the parish of Lafourche shall elect
two; the parishes Of Livingston, Washington,
st. Helena, and ST. Tammany shall elect
three; the parish of Natchitoches shall elect
two; the parish of Orleans, First District, shall
elect nine; the parish Of Orleans, Second Dis
trict, shall elect hve; the parish OF Orleans,
Third District, snail elect five; the parish OF Or
leans, Fourth District, shall elect three; the
the parish OF Plaquemine and ST: Bernard snail
elect two; the parish OF Rapides snail elect
three; the parishes of ST. Charles and ST. John
Baptist shall elect three the parish OF 81. James
shall elect two; the parish OF st. Landry shall
elect four the parish Of ST. Martin shall elect
parish of Tensas shall elect two; tue parish of
Terreboune shall elect Two; the parish of Union
shall elect one
" The election will be by ballot, and will be
conducted in the manner and according to the
rules governing ordinary elections of similar
delegate voted fer will have written printed
upon 1t the words "For Convention" or
against Convention" Two days will be
" The Board of Registers within their re-
Hpective parishes will see that all the necessary
preparations are made for properly conducting
fhaa oil that the Commissioners oil El6C-
tions in all the voting precincts are properly
qualified and instructed In the performance OF
their duties: that due and sufficient notice is
given of the time and object of the election, pro-
per ballot boxes prepared, etc.
Each Board will designate some point within
its parish, convenient of access preferably the
Court House, to which the ballot-bo OF all
the precincts of the parish shall be brought inn
mediateiy after the election. The Board will
then cAfefully count and make duplicate
returns of the votes cast and VIII see whether
the returns of each precinct correspond with
the record of the Commissioners. Each men,
Der Of the Board will make affidavit to the
correctness of the returns, one copy of which
will then be brought by some member of the
Board to these headquarters, the other copy
being retained by the Board until further
vi. commissioners of Elections will be re.
sponsible for the preservation of order at the
polls during the election; they Will see that a
full and fair opportunity is given for depositing
his ballot, to every man entitled TO vote; and
will generally do everything that Is requisite
opinions and wishes OF the people through the
balOt-boX.
To this end they are hereby authorized and
empowered to make arrests, and are clothed,
during the days OF election, with all the func-
tions OF civil executive officers. All civil Off
GERS win promptly and fully obey every demand
made upon their official services by the Com
missiOners OF Elections in Ithe furtherance of
these objects, during the days of election under
penalty of dismissal from their offices, and such
other punishment as may be inflicted by mill
tary commission
At the close OF the election, the Commission
ers will carefully count the votes and record the
result in duplicate; the ballots will then be re-
placed in the ballot-boxes, which will be sealed
and carried, together with one copy of the re-
cord made by the Commissioners, to the place
designated and there turned over to the Board
of Registers.
VII. Should violence or fraud be perpetrated
at any OF the voting precincts on the days of
election, the offenders Will be punished in the
Beverest manner, and the election within these
precincts will be held over again under the pro-
lection of the United States troops.
When all the returns reach these headquar-
ters, the result of the election will be published,
and If majority OF the votes, according to the
law of Congress, have been in favor of Con
vention, the names of the delegates elected will
be officially announced and the Convention
called together.
By command Of Major Gen. P. H. Sheridan.
GEORGE l.. HARTSUFF,
Assistant Ad jutan + General
Oficial: GEORGE LEE,
ISL Lieut.. "a Infantry, Bvt. Lieut. Col, u, S. A.
Acting Assistant tAdjutant-GeneTal.