The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-15
OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, s. c., August 1, 1867.

CHARLESTON, 3. e., August /, 1867.
GENERAL ORDERS,
NO. Is.
REGULATIONS FOR REGISTRATION.
1. Registration shall commence immediately
upon the PRONUNCIATION Of this order
H. 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 malfeasance in
Office neglect of duty, or incompetency, prompt
~ reporting their action, with the reasons there
Tor, to these Headquarters.
III. The Boards of Registration are empowered
and required to suppress all disorders interfering
with the execution OF their duties to cause the
rest and confinement of all persons falsely taking
the oath prescribed, all persons committing any
breach OF the peace or conducting themselves in
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, constabes, policemen, and
also of any citizen and all State, district county
and town officers charged with the preservation
of the public peace, as well as all citizens.
required to obey the orders of said Boards, given
in pursuance OF the authority atol esaid and to
perform all such acts and duties as may be re-
qusitc therefor
Ali 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
as provided i'll Circular of May 15, 1867, from
these Headquarters and any civil officer or citi-
zen failing 10 respond to the call of the Board for
assistance will be dealt with in like manner
~. Whenever any citizen shall suffer injury in
person, family or property, while exercising or
seeking 10 exercise the right of registra-
tion, III addition to any penalty prescribed by
law for the offence, damages shall be awarded to
the injured party against the perpetrator, upon
lis conviction; and in case of default in payment
of the same, or OF the escape of the offender, ifit
shall appear that the wrong was countenanccd, Or
the offender harbored or concealed by the neigh
borho0d 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 pcrpctr.tcd by white persons dis
guised as blacks, being of frequent occurrence,
the attention of all authorities, civil and militia
rv, is directed to the device, adopted to
escape detection, and to cast unncritCd oboquy
upon the cOlorcd people. In all cases, when re-
sort thereto shall be shown, the fact will be taken
into consideration AS aggrayatlng the offence
vi. Depriving Il citizen of any right, benefit or
advantage Of hire or employment, to discourage
him trCm 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 enti!c the injured party to damages
against the offender, any clause in any cont act
or agreement to the contrary nOtwitllstandi
VII. The Act of Congress entitled "An Act for
the mere efficient government of the rebel
States" and the several Acts supplementary
thereto will be carefully observed by ali Boards
of Registration
VIII. Zach Board shall, after having taken the
oath prescribed by the Act of fCOngressof July I'd,
1862, entitled "An Act to prescribe an oath of Of
fee" (see -1ppeRdir, Jo,rt l. choose of its
members chairman, who shall preside at all
sessions of the Boards, preserve order at its
meetings for 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
Y. Each Board shall determine the order in
which the registration Shall take place in the sew
cral election precincts, that may be assigned to
il by the Post Commander, and the time which
shall be allotted to each-bcaring 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 OF this order, and at least five days
before commencing registration, give notice
thereof to 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 i'll 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 in
session at each place for the purpose of registra
tiOll, anu Inviting pclSOnS uudllNCu W NOlc
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 rcgistra-
tiOn
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 NIX.
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 lngress and egress so arranged as to avoid
confusion.
XIV. Two citizens shall be admitted within
the bar as chalengers, whose duty it shall be to
challenge the right of any citizen offering to reg
lister, upon any of the grounds Of disqualification
enumerated in the Acts of Congress before cited;
but the general right of challenge shall be con-
cedcd TO all citizens present.
XIV. If any challenge be made, the Board shall,
before final decision, examine the person pre-
scntlng himself for registration, in reference to
the cause of disqualification alleged, and shall
hear any evidence that may be offered, to sub
stantiatc or disprove the cause of challenge, and
shall have power to summon and compel the at
tendance OF witnesses and administer oaths in
any case OF registration.
XVI In registering, the names of white and
ClUlLCuS SIldll DC CLltIcu ALPHABETICALLY,
in separate columns of the list.
XVII. The following shall be the process of
registering:
First. Every citizen presenting himself for reg
istry shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed
by law, (see Appendir, form g. which shall be
administered 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 deter
the hearing and decision of contested cases until
the session for revision provided tor i'll paragraph
XIX.
Fifth. Whether or not there be any challenge,
the Board must ascertain upon such facts or IL
formation as can be obtained, that the applicant
is entitled to be registered before marking his
name as "accepted"-the oath not being conclu-
sive.
Ssrth Section z of the Act of July 18th, 1857,
declares that no citizen shall be entitled to be
registered by reason of any executive pardon or
amnesty for any act or thing which, without such
parcon or amnesty, would disqualify him from
registration.
SevenH. Boards will take notice that it is enact
cd by Section of the Act of July 18th, 1861 that
the true intent and meaning OF the oath prescribed
in said supplementary Act is, (among other
things that no person who has been member
of the Legislature of any State, or who has held
any executive judicial office in any State,
whether he haS taken oath TO support the Con-