The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-06-12
Instructions to Registrars
ANOTHER ORDER FROM GEN scHorlE1


The following has been published at
military headquarters. Il comes to the
point:
HEAD. ons. LIST MILITARY D1srn1cr, ]
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Richmond, Va, june Sd, 1867
GENERAL ORDER, No. "a.
The following instructions for the gov
ernment Of Boards Of Registration are pub
lished, as an appendix to the regulations
prescribed in General Orders No. %, Of
May 18th, 1867.
!. All male citizens of the United
States twenty-one years Of age and up
ward, of whatever race. color or previous
condition, who have been resident in the
State for one year, except such as may be
disfranchised for participation in therebell-
ion. or for felony, are entitled to be regis
tered as voters, upon their taking and
subscribing the oath or affirmation pres
cribed by the act Of Congress Of March
23d, 1867.
2. All those who were at any time
members of Congress, OF officers OF the
United States. civil or military, and as
such officers took an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, and all
who were at any time members Of any
State Legislature, or executive or judicial
officers of any State, and afterwards
engaged in instruction or rebellion against
the United States, or gave aid or comfort
to the enemies thereof and all who have
been convicted of felony against the laws
of any States or of the United States, are
DISTINGUISHED.
3. No one is disfranchised for participa-
ton in rebellion unless he previously held
some one Of the offices above named.
4. The following will be regarded as
executive and Judicial officers of the State
Of Virginia, within the meaning Of the
law, viz Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of the State, Auditor Of Public
Accounts, End Auditor. Register Of the
Land Officer, State Treasurer Attorney
General, Judges Of the Supreme Court
Of Appeals, Judges Of the Circuit Courts,
Judge Of the Court of Hastings, Justices
of the County Courts, Mayor, Recorder
and Aldermen of any city or incorporated
town, who are ec-o6Scio Justices, Coroners,
Of towns and counties, Escheators, Inspec-
tors of tobacco, -four and other commodi-
| ties.
5. All persons who voluntarily joined
the rebel army, and all persons in that
army, whether volunteers or conscripts,
who committed voluntarily any hostile act,
thereby engaged in Instruction or rebel
lion. Any person: however, who was
forced into the rebel army, but avoided,
as far as possible, doing hostile acts, and
escaped from that army as soon as posi-
BILE, cannot be said to have engaged in the
rebellion.
| 6. All who exercised the functions of
any Office under the Confederate Govern
ment, or the Government of any one of
the Confederate States, which functions
were Of nature to aid in prosecuting the
war, or maintaining the hostile character
Of those governments, and all who voted
for the ordinance of secession, engaged in
rebellion or gave aid and comfort to the
enemy.
Z. Those who. vozu'atariy furnished
supplies of food, clothing, arms, ammuni-
ton, horses or mules, or any other materi-
al of war, or labor or service of any kind,
to the Confederate military or naval
forces, or money, by loan or otherwise, to
the Confederate Government; or aided in
any way the raising, organization, or
equipment of troops, gave aid and comfort
| to the enemy, and participated in the re-
bellion and civil war against the United
States.
g. To give individual soldiers food or
clothing enough to relieve present suffer
ing, or to minister to the sick or wound
ed, are simple acts Of charity or humanity,
and do not constitute giving said or COM
fort to the enemy" A parent may give
his SON. who belongs to the hostile army,
food and clothing for his own use but if
he gives him a gun, horse, or other thing,
to be used for hostile purposes, he thereby
gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
9. Whenever. after the examination
required by paragraph IL, Of the regula-
tions Of May 18th, the Board is still in
doubt as to the right Of the applicant to
be registered as voter, and he is then
willing to take the prescribed oath, the
Beard will give to that oath its full weight,
and register the applicant as voter.
10. In the lists of those who are ire
gistered after challenge and examination"
and those who are rejected upon chal-
lenge,D the Board will state in each case,
what Office, or Offices the person held pre-
vious to the late war, and what insurrec-
tionary or rebellious acts he committed,
and what kind Of aid or comfort he gave
to these engaged in instruction or rebel
lion.
II. The challengers provided for in
paragraph IL of the Regulations Of May
18th, will be selected by the Board from
the most respectable and intelligent voters
of the district or ward, those who have
the most extended acquaintance with peo-
pie, those who are Interested in securing
fair and just registration, and who will
be most likely to detect ani expose any
attempt at fraudulent registration. The
ckalengers may be changed at any time,
at the discretion Of the Board; they will
not be entitled to any pay for their SER
vices.
IL. Boards Of Registration will adhere
strictly to the regulations published for
their government, and spare no pains to
secure just and fair registration accor
ding to these instructions. IF any who
are entered upon the list as rejected by
tho BOARD after chal1onoo and avor;nc