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OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, S. c., August l, 1867.
GENERAL ORDERS,

GENERAL ORDERS,
REGULATIONS FOR REGISTRATION.
/. Registration shall commence Immediately
upon the PRONUNCIATION Of this order.
Ill. Post Commanders will be Superintendents
OF registration within their respective commands,
exercising, in addition to the functions hereinat-
ter specially conferred, general supervisory au-
thority, looking to the faithful execution of the
several Reconstruction Acts, the maintenance of
order, and the protection of political rights.
They will suspend registrars for ma!fcasance in
office, neglect Ct duty, or incompetency, prompt
ly reporting their action, with the reasons there
for. to these Headquarters.
Ill The Boards of fRe9istration are empowered
and required to suppress all disorders interfering
with the execution OF their duties to cause the ar.
rest and confinement OF all persons falsely taking
the oath prescribed, all persons committing any
breach OF the peace or conducting themselves in
| a manner tending thereto, and all persons who
shall threaten or otherwise attempt to intimidate
or corruptly or improperly influence any citizen
offering to register; and for this purpose they
may apply for aid to the Post Commander, and
may require the attendance and services of sher-
ifs, their deputies, constables, polc cemen, and
also of any citizen; and all State, district county
and town officers charged with the preservation
of the public peace, as well all citizens. are
required to obey the orders of said Boards, given
in pursuance of the authority afol esad and to
perform all such acts and duties may be re-
quiste therefor.
All arrests made as herein provided will be
promptly reported to the Post Commander, TO
whom also the prisoners will be turned over with
charges for trial by Post Court, to be organized
provided in Circular of May Is, 1867, from
these Headquarters, and any civil officer citi-
zen failing to respond to the call of the Board for
assistance will be dealt with i'll like manner
~. Whenever any citizen shall suffer injury in
person, family or property, while exercising or
seeking to exercise the right of registra-
law for the offence, damages shall be awarded to
the injured party against the perpetrator, upon
his conviction; and in case of default in payment
of the same, of the escape of the offender if
shall appear that the wrong was cuuntenanced or
the offender harbored or concealed by the neigh
borhood, or that the civil authorities failed to
employ proper measures to preserve the peace,
the damages shall be assessed against and paid
by the town, county or district.
v Offences perpetrated by white persons dis
gused as blacks, being of frequent occurrence,
the attention of all authorities, civil and militia
ry, is directed to the device, as one adopted to
escape detection, and to cast unmerited obloquy
upon the colored people. In all cases,
sort thereto shall be shown, the fact will be taken
into consideration as aggravating the offence. g
VI DepriVing a citizen OF any right, benefit or
advantage OF hire or employment, to discourage
him from registering, or on account of his having
registered, or having sought to register, shall be
deemed an offence punishable by the Post Court
and shall entitle- the injured party to damages
against the offender, any clause in any contract
or agreement to the contrary Notwithstanding.
VII. The Act OF Congress entitled IAN Act for
States" and the several Acts supplementary
thereto will be carefully observed by all Boards
of Registration.
VIII. Each Board shall, after having taken the
Oat Ii prescribed by tic Act of Congress of July Cd,
1862 entitled IAN Act to prescribe an oath Of Of
tice," (See APpcndiI, form l, choose one Of its
members as chairman, who shallpreside at all
sessions of the Boards, preserve order at its
meetings Tor registration, and represent the
Board and announce its action in all matters
coming before it.
TX The places of session of the Boards shall be
the voting places established by law or custom
in each election precinct, unless for good cause
otherwise directed by the Post Commander.
X. Each Board shall determine the order in
which the registration shall take place in the sew
eral election precincts, that may be assigned to
ii by the Post Commander, and the time which
shall be allotted to each-bearing in mind that
the whole work is to be finished before the first
day of October.
XI Each Board shall, forthwith upon notice
of publication o! this ORDER and at least five days
before commencing registration, give notice
thereofts the Post Commander, and the sheriff,
and the mayor of the city or the intendant of the
town, and shall cause written or printed notices
to be posted in five of the most public places in
each election precinct, announcing the time when
and the place where its sessions will be held, the
number of days (in no case less than two,) and
the hours OF the Cay the Board will remain i'll
session at each place for the purpose of registra
ton; and inviting all persons qualified TO vote
under the provisions of the Act of Congress
passed March 2d, 1867, entitled "An Act to pro-
vide Tor the more efficient government of the
rebel States" and the several Acts supplementary
thereto, to appear before the Board for registra-
ton.
XII On the day and at the hour designated in
the notices. for commencing registration, the
Board SHALL at the place announced, convene and
enter upon its duties, and shall; then and there
also post notices of the time of final sessions
provided for in paragraph XIX.
XIII. The room used for registration, which
the chairman shall have previously provided for
the purpose, shall be so arranged that the Board
shall be separated by bar from all other persons
who may be assembled, and those to be registered
shall be admitted within the bar, one by one, and
their ingress and egress so arranged as to avoid
confusion.
XIV. Two citizens shall be admitted within
the bar as challengers whose duty it shall be to
challenge the right of any citizen offering to reg
lister, upon any of the grounds OF disqualification
in the Acts Of Congress before cited
but the general right of challenge shall be con-
ceded to all citizens present.
XIV. If any challenge be made, the Board shall, |
before final decision, examine the person pre-
senting himself for registration, in reference to
the cause of disqualification alleged, and shall
hear any evidence that may be offered, to sub |
stantiate or disprove the cause of challenge and
shall have power to summon and compel the at |
tendance of witnesses and administer oaths in |
any of registration.
XVI. In registering, the names OF white and |
colored citizens shall be entered alphabetically,
in separate columns of the list
XVII. The following shall be the process OF
registering:
First Every citizen presenting himself for reg
stry shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed
by law, (see Appendir, form q which shall be |
by member of the Board, and such |
oath shall be preserved with the lists.
Second His name shall then be entered in the |
proper column of the list, and called out by the
chairman.
Third Any challenge made shall be noted in
the proper column, opposite the name, with the
cause thereof
Fourth 1t is recommended to Boards to defer
he hearing and decision of contested cases until
he session for revision provided tor in paragraph
XIX.
Fifth Whether or not there be any challenge,
he Board must ascertain upon such facts or i'll
ormation as can be obtained, that the applicant
S entitled to be registered before marking his
lame as ''accepted'-the oath not being condu-
i've.
Sirth. Section of the Act of July 18th, 1857,
leclares that citizen shall be entitled to be
registered by reason of any executive pardon or
mnesty for any act or thing which, without such
,ara on or amnesty, would disqualify him from
registration.
Seaeath Boards will take notice that it is enact
ID by Section of the Act of July 18th, 1861 that
he true intent and meaning OF the oath prescribed
IL said supplementary Act is, (among other
hings,) that no person WHO has been a member
If the Legislature of any State, OF who has held
ny executive or judicial office in any State,
whether he has taken an oath to support the Con-
titution of the United States or NOT, and wheth-