The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-06-12
Order from Gen. Schofield.
RICHMoNp. JunN 3.

1Or the instruction OI ISoGiuo VI leeS ioIiA
ton. After quoting the reconstruction
Act as to who are disfranchised, including
executive, judicial and State officers, he
SAYS no one is disfranchised for participa-
ton in the rebellion, unless he previously
held some one of the Offices above named.
The following will be regarded as exec.
utivc and judicial officers Of the State OF
Virginia, within the meaning of the law,
viz: Governor, Lieutenant-G Governor, Sec
retary of State, Auditor OF Public Ac-
counts, Second Auditor, Register of the
Land Office, State Treasurer, Attorney
General Judges of the Supreme Court OF
Appeals, Judges of the Circuit Courts,
Judge of the Court of Hastings, Justices
of the County Courts, Mayor, Recorder
and Alderman of any city or Incorporated
town, who are er-o6icio justices, coroners
of towns and counties, escheators, inspec-
tors of tobacco, flour and other commodi-
ties.
All persons who voluntarily joined the
rebel army and all persons in that army,
whether volunteers or conscrlpts, who
committed, voluntarily, any hostile act,
thereby engaged in insurrection or re-
bcllion. Any person, however, who was
forced into the rebel army, but avoided,
as far as possible, doing hostile acts, and
ESCAPED from that army as soon as posi-
BILE, cannot be said to have engaged in the
rebellion.
All who exercised the functions of any
Office under the Confederate Government,
or the Government of any one of the
Confederate States, which functions were
of nature to aid in prosecuting the war
or maintaining the hostile character OF
those Governments, and all who voted for
the ordinance of secession, engaged in the
rebellion or gave aid and comfort to the
enemy.
Those who voluntarily furnished sup
plies of food, clothing, arms, ammunition,
horses or mules, CT any other material OF
war or labor, or service of any kind, to
the Confederate army or naval forces, or
money, by loan or otherwise, to the Con-
-federate Government, or aided in any
way the raising, organization OF equip
ment of troops, gave aid and comfort TO
the enemy, and participated in the rebel
lion and civil war against the United
States.
To give individual soldiers food or cloth
ing enough to relieve presen. suffering,
or to minister to the sick or wounded,
arc simple acts of charity or humanity,
and do not constitute giving aid or COM
fort TO the enemy. A parent may give
his son who belongs to the hostile army
food and clothing for his own use; but if
he give him gun, horse or other thing
to be used for hostile purposes, he there
by gives aid and comfort to the enemy.
Whenever, after the examination re-
quircd by paragraph II of the regulations
Of 13, the board is still in doubt as to the
right of the applicant to be registered as
q voter, and he is then willing to take the
prescribed oath, the board will give to
that oath its full weight, and register the
applicant as voter.
In the lists of those who arc registered
after challenge and examination, and
those who are rejected upon challenge
the board will state in each case what
Office or offices the person filled previous
to the late war, and what insurrectlonary
or rebelloas acts he committed, and what
kind of aid or comfort he gave to those
engaged in nsurrection or rebellion.
The challengers provided for in para
graph - of the regulations Of May IL,
will be selected by the board from the
most respectable and intelligent voters OF
the district or ward-those who have the
most extended acquaintance with the
people; those who are interested in Sc
curing fair and just registration, and
who will be most likely to detect and eX-
pose any attempt at fraudulent registra,
tion. The challengcrs may be changed
at any time, atthe discretion of the board
They will not be entitled to any pay for
their services. Registering officers arc
hereby empowered TO administer oaths
to witnesses who may be summoned by
the board in any case of contested regis.
tration. The registration will be com
menced in every county and city without
unnecessary delay after the receipt of this
order, assigning commanders to the mill.
tary sub-districts. The officers of the
Freedmen's Bureau, acting as military
commissioners in the counties in these
districts, arc to report to said commanders.