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

GENERAL ORDERS, f.
NO. IS.
REGULATIONS FOR REGISTRATION.
I. Registration shall commence Immediately
upon the PRONUNCIATION Of this order.
Ii. Post Commanders will be Superintendent
of registration within their respective commands,
exercising, in addition to the functions hereinaf-
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
ly reporting their action, with the reasons there
for, to these Headquarters.
III. The Boards of Registration are empowered
and required to suppress all disorders interfering
with the execution OF their duties, to 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 intimdate
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, 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, are
required to obey the orders of said Boards given
in pursuance of the authority afol esaid and to
perform all such acts and duties may be
quiSite 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
as provided in Circular of May Is, 1867, from
these Headquarters, and any civil officer or citi-
falling to 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 to exercise the right of registra-
tion, in addition to any penalty prescribed by
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, lift
shall appear that the wrong was countenanced, 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
guised as blacks, being of frequent occurrence,
the attention of all authorities, civil and militia
ry is directed to the DEVICE one adopted to
escape detection, and to cast unmerited obloquy
upon the colored people In all cases, when re-
sort thereto shall be SHOWN the TACT will be taken
into consideration as aggravating the offence.
VI Depriving 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 enttle the injured party to damages
against the offender, any clause in any contract
agreement to the contrary notwithstanding.
VII. The Act of Congress entitled IAN Act for
the efficient government of the rebel
States" and the several Acts supplementary
thereto, will be carefully observed 10y all Boards
of Registration.
viii. Each Board shall, after having taken the
oath prescribed by the Act of Congressof July ID,
1862, entitled Gan Act to prescribe an oath of Of
fce," (See appendix, form l, choose one of its
members as 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.
K Each Board shalt determine the order in
which the registration shall take place in the sew
eral election precincts, that may be assigned to
il 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
XII. 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 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 Tin no case less than Vo,) and
the hours of the Cay the Board will remain in
session at each place for the purpose of regstra-
ton; and inviting all persons qualified to vote
under the provisions of the Act of Congress
passed March I'd, 1867, entitled IAN Act to pro-
vide Tor the more efficient government of the
rebel States" and the several Acts supplementary
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 a bar from all other persons
who may be assembled and those to be registered
hall No tod in, hn hor nnp hy
their ingress and egress SO arranged as to avoid
confusion.
XIV. Two citizens shall be admitted within
the bar challcngers, whose duty it shall be to
challenge the right of any citizen offering to reg
lister, upon any of the grounds OF
enumerated 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 case 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
istry shall take and subscribe the oath prescribed
by Jaw, (see AppendiI, form ~ 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 until
the session for revision provided tor in paragraph
XIX.
Fifth Whether or not there be any challenge,
the Board must ascertain upon such facts or it,
formation as be obtained, that the applicant
is entitled to be registered before marking his
name as ''accepted'-the oath not being conclu-
sive.
sirth. Section of the Act of July 10th, 1867,
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
par on or amnesty, would disqaality him from
registration.
Seventh Boards will take notice that it is enact
ed by Section of the Act of July 18th, 1867, 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 or judicial office in any State,
whether he has taken an oath TO support the Con-
stitution of the United States or not, and wheth-