Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-05-30
HEADo'Rs FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT,
STATE OF VIRGINIA,

Richmond, May IL, 1867.
General Orders No %. 81 g t@'
The following regulations are prescribed
for the registration Of voters as required
by the act of Congress Of March %, 1867:
1.-Two or more registering officers will
be appointed for each county or city, ac-
cording to its size, and one for each ma
gisterial district or ward. -
2. One principal Board of Registration,
and as many assistant Boards as may be
convenient, each to consist of three officers.
will be organized in each county or CITY
by the President of the Board, under in
structions heretofore issued from these
headquarters CIR; :.
3: The President of the Board for the
city or county will apportion the districts
or wards among the principal and assistant
Boards, determine the order in which the
several districts or wards assigned to each
Board shall be registered, the time to be
allotted to each, and will instruct the re-
Clustering officer of each district or ward to
publish accordingly the notices hereinafter
required, and to make the necessary pre-
partitions for the meeting Of his district or
ward M
4. Tbs. President. Of the Board will al
SO designate the. place of registration in
each district or ward, which Will be selec-
ted with reference to the general conyen-
fence of voters.
5. There shall be one place of registra-
ton, and only one, in each magistelial dis
trict or ward, where all the qualified yo-
tiers, residents Of the district or ward, shall
be registered. 91 -
6. 1t shall be the duty of the register
ing officer of each district or ward to regis
ter the voters of that district or ward, keep
the records, prepare the required reports
to the commanding general, and to do
such other ministerial duty as may be Or
dered by the Board or by the President
thereof. But all questions of the right of
persons to be registered must be decided
b. the full Board.
Z. The Board of Registration shall, in
each district or ward, in five of the most
public places therein, cause written or
printed notices to be posted, which notices
shall designate the time and place, when
and where the registration will be held,
the number of days the Board will be in
session for the purpose of registration, and
the length of time each day, and inviting
all persons qualified to vote under the pro-
visions of the act of Congress of March 2,
1867, entitled can act to provide for the
more efficient government OF the rebel
States, and the act supplementary there
to, passed March Is, 1867, to APP
pear before the Board for Registration.
s. These notices shall be posted at least
ten days before the commencement of the
registration in the district or ward in
which they are posted
9. Persons shall vote only in the district
or ward where they are registered.
10. On the day and at the time named
in the notices hereinbefore mentioned, the
Board of Registration fer the district or
ward shall meet at the place designated in
such notice, and having taken the pre-
scribed oath, enter upon their duties.
H. The room in which the registration
is to be made shall be SO arranged that
the Board of Registration ann persons adj
mitted as challengers and witnesses, shall
be separated from those to be registered;
no one being permitted within the enclos-
ure, in addition to those named, except
the person to be registered or examined
for registration. Lie persons to be regis
tered being admitted one by one, and their
entry and egress to be SO arranged as to
avoid confusion.
&. II. For the urpose Of securing just
registration, and to prevent the registra-
tion of any person not entitled to vote I'M
der the said act Of Congress Of March 2,
1867, or the act supplementary thereto,
three white and three colored persons, vo-
tiers of the district, shall be selected by
the Board, who shall be allowed to remain
with the Board, and who shall have the
privilege and whose duty it shall be, as
well as that Of each member Of the Board,
to challenge the right Of any person to
be registered, who, in the opinion Of the
person challenging, is disqualified as vo-
ter by reason of any of the causes set forth
in said acts of Congress. Upon such chal-
lcnge being made the Board shall examine
the person presenting himself for registra-
ton in reference to each clause Of disqual-
ifcation mentioned in said act and the act
supplementary thereto. Evidence Shall
also be heard, if offered, to substantiate
the cause Of challenge, CT to rebut that Of
tered in support of it.
IL. In registering the voters the names
OF the white and colored persons registered
shall be entered in separate columns Of
the list kept for that purpose, which lists,
after the registration shall have been com
pleted, shall be alphabetically arranged
the names of the white and colored voters
still being keptin separate colemns. Three
separate lists shall be kept. The first shall
contain the names Of all voters who shall
be registered without challenge after tax.
ing the prescribed oath set forth in the Isl
section Of the supplement to the aforesaid
act, The second, those who may be regis
tered after chsllengc made; and the third
those who may be rejected upon challenge
IA. Opposite the name of each person
challenged, whether reg stored as entitled
to vote or not. the cause of challenge vii
be clearly stated. and also the facts relat
ing thereto as developed by the examina