The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-10-08
Headquarters Second Military District,

los CHARLESTON, s. g., August %, 1861.
! CIRCULAR.
| GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS OF REGIS
TRATIoN, FOR THEIR INFORMATION IN REvIs-
ING THE LISTS OF VOTERS.
l. All citizens entitled to be registered un-
less disqualified for the acts and offences set forth
in the rules and regulations for Registration,
published in General Orders No. Is.
| No citizen is disqualified unless, having held
| office under the United States, or having been a
member of the Legislature OF any State or hav-
ing held some executive or judicial Office under O
general law of the State, he afterwards engaged
in the rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to per-
sons so engaged; or unless, by the decree of a
competent judicial tribunal, or by an act OF Con-
gress, or law of State, he has been disfranchsed
| for rebellion against the United States, or for
! felony.
Disqualified persons arc OF several classes for
example:
Ist. Amy person not twenty one years of age
I'd. Any person who has not acquired resi-
| dence in the State.
| Sd. Any person otherwise qualified by age and
residence, who, having held Office under the
| United States, afterwards engaged in rebellion,
or gave aid and comfort to their enemies.
4th Any pers otherwise qualified by residence
| and age, who, having been member of egisla-
! ture, or having held executive or judicial Office
under general law of State, afterwards engag-
ed in rebellion against the United States, gave
| aid and comfort to their enemies.
5th Any person otherwise qualified by resi-
| dence and age, who has been disfranchised by the
sentence Of competent judicial tribunal for
! felony.
| 9th. Any person otherwise qualified by resi-
dence and age who has been disfranchised by law ;
for example, citizen Of Tennessee, DISTINGUISHED
| by the constitution and laws of that State, for
participation in the rebellion, who has become
resident of North or South Carolina.
H. A citizen, not included within either of the
| above specified classes, although he may have
voluntarily taken part in the rebellion is qualified
so citizen included within the Sd or 4th class,
whose acts in aid of rebellion not voluntary
| is qualified.
| In general, officers of mere municipalities,
towns or villages are not embraced in the Sd and
4th classes of paragraph /; for example: police
man or a member of town guard, appointed by
town city authorities local health officers,
weighers, measurers and inspectors of merchan-
die and produce: persons holding deputations
from civil officers such as deputy sheriffs, and the
like: clerks and assistants appointed or employ
ed by civil officers: poundmasters, jailors ap-
pointed by sheritfs, ETC.: these are not offices
created by law for the administration of general
law of State, or for the administration Justice.
There are, however, certain municipal or town
officers within the intent and meaning of the Acts
OF Congress, and who by subsequent acts in aid
of the rebellion, would be disqualified. For ex-
ample, mayor of city, or intendant of a town,
who may have been, by virtue of his Office, q
magistrate, having authority by law to hear and
determine complaints for petty offences, and to
impose punishment by fine and Imprisonment
upon offenders: or to arrest, commit or hold to
bail persons charged with crime.
Municipal or town officers, having authority
to enforce mere local ordinances in the nature of
police regulations, for the preservation of order,
the regulation of trade, and the abatement of nu-
isances, or other strictly corporate matters, are
not within the dsfranchlsing provisions of the
Act.
The circumstance, nevertheless, that the duties
of an officer were performed within prescribed
locality, for instance, either District, COun-
ty, Parish, City or Town, does not screen him
from the operation of the disqualfying clauses,
proyided, his duties had been prescribed by gen
eral law for example, Sheriffs of Counties, and
Constables of Towns, fill offices created by law
the administration OF general laws of the State.
Nor is every employment, although held by vir-
tue of a law of the State, and compensated by5a
salary fixed by law, and raised by general tax,
an office; for example, teacher in Public
State; physicians and attendants employed in
State Asylums for the Deaf and Dumb or for Lu-
natics do not hold Offices, although these persons
are in the public service.
Officers of Militia, employed in the execution
of the Ritrol LARS or other laws having relation
to the domestic order of the State and The yoernmet
Of tue SlaUe population therein, and who after
wards engaged in the rebellion, arc disqualified;
such offices, although military in name, civil
and executive in their duties.
. Certain employneHts licensed by authority of
State laws, having relation to the administration
of Justice, are not officers within the meaning OF
the acts; for example, lawyers. ......,-.s-....
All officers auxiliary to Courts, such as Clerks
of Courts Master in Equity, etc etc, created by
general Laws, for the administration of Justice,
are within the meaning of the Acts Of Congress.
A Notary Public, being mere ministerial Off
Ger, and performing no executive or judicial du-
ties is not within the disquaifyng clauses Of the
Acts of Congress. ---.--
Local officers, having executive powers and
duties defined by general laws, and embraced
within the civil polity of the State, although
chosen or appointed by the people of the
vicnage, are disqualified, if, after holding such
offices, they voluntarily engaged in the re-
Go, laJ aud fort 20 fl,o
sons SO engaged; for example: overseers of high.
ways, land commissioners, overseers OF the poor,
Captains of Beat Companies -
,Naturaiized citizens, having abjured allegiance
to all sovereignty other than that of the United
States, and having taken upon themselves the
obligations and duties belonging to citizens, and
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