The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-26
OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, s. c., August 81, 1857.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS OF REGIS
TRATIoN, FOR THEIR INFORMATION IN REvIs-
ING TIE LISTS OF VOTERS. - .. .r
/. 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. @s<
No citizen is disqualified unless, having held
office under the United States, or having been
| member of the Legislature OF any State, or hay-
ing held some executive or judicial office under
general law of the State, he afterwards engaged
in the rebellion, or save aid and comfort to per-
SONS SO engaged; or unless, by the decree of q
competent judicial tribunal, or by an act oil Con-
grcss, or law of State he has been disfranchised
for rebellion against the United States, or for
felony. - .. i-i..-
Disqualified persons are OF several classes: for
example: .... .r -.
st. Any 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 a general law of State, afterwards engag
ed in rebellion against the United States, or 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 a competent judicial tribunal for
felony.
9th. Any person otherwise qualified by resi-
dcucc a!!d age, who has been dsfrn"hiscd by law
f example, ciiiZen of Tennessee DISTINGUISHED
by the constitution and laws of that State, for
participation in the rebellion, who has b. come
resident Of North or South Carolina. -
II. A citizen, not included within either of the
above specified classes, although he may have
voluntarily taken part in the rebellion qualified;
so Il citizen included within the Sd or 4th class,
whose acts in aid of rebellion were not voluntary,
is qualified.
IN general, officers of mere Municipalities
towns or villages are not embraced in the Sd and
4th classes of paragraph I /; for example: police
man or a member of a town guard appointed by
town or city authorities local health officers,
weighcrs, measurers and inspectors of merchan-
dize and producc: persons holding deputations
from civil officers, such deputy sherifs and the
like: clerks and assistants appointed or employ
ed by civil officers: poundmastcrs, jailors ap-
pointed by sheriffs, etc: these are not offices
created by law for the administration of general
law of State, for the administration of 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 town,
who may have been, by virtue of his Office, a
magistrate, having authority by law to hear and
determine complaints ior 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
police regulations, for the preservation of order,
the regulation of trade, and the abatement of nu-
isances, other strictly corporate matters, are
not within the disfranchlsing provisions of the
Act. .-. r-
The circumstance, nevertheless, that the duties
of an officer were performed within a prescribed
locality, as for instance, Sither District, Coun
ty Parish City or Tow docs not screen him
from the operation of the dsqualifying clauses,
proaided his duties had been prescribed by gen
eral law Tor example, Sheritfs 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 by a
salary fixed by law, and raised bya general tax,
an office; for example, teacher in q Public
School, or College supported or endowed by the
State physicians and attendants employed in
State Asylums for the Deaf and Dumb or for Lu-
nat cs, do not hold offices, although these persons
are in the public service. ..
Officers of Militia employed in the execution
of the Prt'ol Laaos, or other laws having relation
to the domestic order of the State and tie goyer,ne1t
Of the SldUe population therein, and who after
wards engaged in the rebellion, are disqualified !;
such offices, although military in name are civil
and executive in their duties. 80 =...'
Certain employments, 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. 90 80
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 fuDllc, DelnS mere nllnlSlcrlal OH
Ger, and performing no executive or judicial du-
ties is not within the dsquaifying clauses of the
Acts of Congress. .~: ....
Local officers, having executive powers and
within the civil polity of the State although
chosen or app ointed by the people of the
vicinage, are disqualified, if, after holding such
offices, they voluntarily engaged in the re-
bellion, or afforded aid and comfort to the per
sons SO engaged; for example: overseers of high
ways, land Commissioners, overseers OF the poor,
Captains of Beat Companies. 5tG .Et'.s-
NaturaiZed citizens, having abjured allegiance
10 all sovereignty other than that of the United
States, and having taken upon themselves the
obligations and duties belonging to citizens, and
acquired thereby the rights and privileges of cit
izenship, who afterwards renounced voluntarily
their allegiance to the United States, and ac-
knewledged allegiance to and became citizens of
the pretended government of the Confederate
States of America" and voluntarily took up
arms against the United States, gave aid and
comfort to the enemies thereof, have ceased by
their own act to be citizens Of the United States
and will be deemed aliens until again naturaliZed
as citizens of the United States :. e., Il eTtf, 1
The cases of all such persons will however, be
specially noted on the Books of Registration,
for further consideration before the final revision
prior to an election. t'-'. -' t--%.'..,-s. L 81
III. Applications for registration, whether ac-
cepted or rejected, and whether the oath is adj
ministered or not, are required to be recorded in
the books furnished, and when the applicant is
deemed by the Toard to be excluded from taking
the oath, a brief memorandum of the grounds of
such decision will be entered Tor future revision.
". All citizens believing themselves qualified
shou Id apply to be registered: attention is called
to the following extract from the published reg
ulations for registration. > l.''. -' u
s'The Major-General Commanding, in the exer-
else of an ultimate revisory authority, will, in
due season, before the holding of any election,
entertain and determine questions, assigning er
rors in the registry and will upon inspection of
the completed lists, cause corrections of the
same, that the true design and purpose OF the
laws be faithfully answered, and that all the
rights thereby guaranteed be fully and fairly en-
joyed." :
.- PAY AND EXPENSES ..., .~
" The pay of Registrars will be four dollars
per day for each day actually and necessarily chr
ployed in the perfoi nance of their official Duties
vi. No allowance for clerk hire will be made.
e; VII. The allowance for the rent of a room for
the meetings of the Board. including furniture
and fixtures, viii not exceed tie rate of fifteen
(s15) per meath. '.'.-" A2.-'' ID.
VIII TIE actual cost of such stationery as
shall be actually and necessarily cnnsumud in Of
iioiai business will he allowed. The following
artir.es, and no others, will be deemed stat ,on-
cry, viz: pens, ink, paper and envelopes.
y TX Mileage will be allowed to Registrars in
lieu of transportation, at the rate of ten cents
per mile for each mile actually and necessarily
travelled on duty, by the shortest practicable
route, under orders in writing from these Head
ri from the G0n andar of the Post ~