The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-10

registration, superintend the election to be
held thereafter for delegates to a conven-
ton to frame constitution, and make re-
turns to him of the votes, list of voters,
and of the persons elected as delegates by
a plurality of the votes cast at such cleo
ton.
Ihrd.-The counties in North Carolina
and the geographical districts in South
Carolina will, for the purposes of registra-
ton, be divided into convenient registra-
tion precincts, and in each precinct a
board of registers will, if practicable, be
organized. Several places will be desig-
mated in each registration precinct where
the board will meet, and citizens eligible
to registration may go and be registered.
The board of registers will remain in ses-
sion two days, from sunrise to sunset,
at each place Of meeting. On the adjourn
ment of the boards copy of the list of
persons registered will be deposited in a
suitable place within the precinct seven
days, for the public information, and there
after the board will again visit every pre-
cinct and revise the list of voters, hear OBJ
iections from citizens as to any adjudica-
ton made, and register any person who
may have been unable, by reason of illness
or other good and sufficient cause, to at
tend the first session of the board.
Forh.-All persons appointed to make
the said registration of voters and to con-
duct said election will be required before
entering on their duties to take and sub
scribe to the oath prescribed by the act
approved July 2, 1862, entitled can act to
prescribe the oath Of Office" and if any
person shall falsely take such oath he, if
convicted, shall be subject to penalties
prescribed by law for wilful perjury. The
form of the oath is herewith published, as
follows: 81, A. B., do solemnly swear or
affirm that | have never voluntarily borne
arms against the United States since I
have been citizen thereof; that
have voluntarily given no aid, coun-
tenance, counsel, or encouragement, to
persons engaged in armed hostility there
to. / have neither sought, nor accepted,
nor attempted to exercise, the functions of
any office whatever, under any authority
or pretended authority in hostility to the
United States that have not yielded
voluntary support to any pretended 60
vernment, authority, power, or constitution,
within the United States hostile or mimi
cal thereto; and | do further swear that, to
the best of my knowledge and ability, will
support, aid, and defend the Constitution
of the United States against all enemies,
foreign or domestic; that I will bear true
faith and allegiance to the same that
take this obligation freely, without any
mental reservation or purpose of evasion !;
and that will well and faithfully perform
the duties of the Office upon which am
about to enter. So help me Cod"
Fth.-Members of the boards of regis
tration will be allowed, as compensation,
four dollars per day for each day actually
and necessarily employed in the perform
ance of their duties, and ten cents mile
for each mile travelled on duty, and officers
of the army detailed for such duty will
be paid the per diem and mileage allowed
for attendance on courts-martial.
Sirth.-Any citizen desiring to serve as a
member of the board may forward bis ap-
plicatiou to these headquarters. No ap-
plication will be considered unless accom-
panied by a written recommendation,
signed by either the provisional governor
of the State, a district or circuit judge OF
the United States court, collector or
other principal officer of customs or of in
ternal revenue, the assistant commissioner
of the Freedmen's Bureau, or the COM
manding officer Of q military post within
which the applicant resides, certifying the
applicant to be f1t person to receive the
appointment.
-Seuenh.-It is essential that every
board should be composed of persons Of
recognized consideration and worth, fairly
representing the population, and in whose
impartiality and capacity the body Of
voters in the yicinage may have just re.
| lance.
Eiohth.-The boundaries Of the pre-.
cincts for registration, the several places
within each precinct where the board viii
meet, the day or days on which the board
will meet in each precinct, and also such
regulations as may be necessary for the
government of registers and inspectors O
election in the discharge Of their duties
and to insure the accuracy and complete
ness of the Registrations, will be duly pub
lished, for general information.
Math.-Post commanders will report
without delay upon the most expedisnt di
vision Of the territory within their com
mands into registration precincts, having
reference, when practicable, 70 existing