The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-11
Official.
Gen. Sickles' Order for Registration,

CHARLESTON, May9
General Sickles has just issued the following:
HEADQUARTERS % MILITARY DISTRICT.
! CHARLESTON, 3. c., Mays.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. IS.
| 1. On the third Monday of July next in obedi-
ence to the requirements of the act OF Congress
| passed March 23d, 1867, the Commanding Cen
eral will proceed and cause to be made regstra-
| ton of the male citizens of the United States
| twenty one years OF age, and upwards, residents
! of North and South Carolina, not disfranchised
for participation in the rebellion, or Tor felony.
2. One or more boards of registration, consist
ing of three discreet and qualified persons to be
| approved by the commanding General, will be
organized i'll each County or City, to make and
complete the registration, superintend the cleo
ton to be held thereafter for delegates to a Con-
| vention to frame Constitution and make returns
to him of the votes and lists OF the voters, and of
| the persons elected as delegates, by plurality of
| the votes cast, at such election.
2. The Counties in North Carolina, and geog-
raphcal districts in South Carolina, will for the
purposes of registration, be divided into conven-
| lent registration precincts. In each registration
precinct, board of registers will if practicable
| be organized. Several places will be designated
in each registration precinct, where the board
| will meet, and The citizens who are eligible to
| registration may go and be registered. The
boards of registers will remain in session two
| days, from sunrise to sunset, in each place of
meeting. On the adjournment of the board, a
copy of the list of persons registered will be de-
posted in a suitable place within the precinct
seven days. for public information. And there
after, the board will again visit every precinct
and revise the list of voters, hear objections from
citizens as to any adjudication made, and register
any person who may, by reason of illness or other
good and sufficient cause, fail to attend the first
session of the board.
4. All persons appointed to make the said reg
stration of voters, and to conduct the said cleo
ti0ns, will be required before entering upon their
q subscribe he O1tb Sf.rib pI
by the act entitled g an act to prescribe an oath
of Office, and if any person shall falsely take and
subscribe such oath, or affirmation, such person
so offending, and being duly convicted thereof,
shall be subject to the pains, penalties and disa-
bilities which by law provided for the pun
ishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt per
jury.
s. Members of the boards of registration VIII
be allowed as compensation four dollars a day Tor
each day, actually and necessarily employed in
the performance of their duties, and ten cents &
mile for each mile Travelled on duty. Officers Of
the army detailed for such duty will be paid the
per diem and mileage allowed for attendance on
courts martial.
g. Any citizen desiring to serve a member of
the board of registration may forward his appli
cation to these Headquarters, addressed to Cap
tain Alexander Moore, 4. D. G. No application
will be considered unless accompanied by q writ
ten recommendation, signed by either the Pro-
visional Governor of the State Judge of the Cir
cult or District Court of the United States, col
ector or other principal officer of custome or of
Internal Revenue the Assistant Commissioner of
the Freedmen's Bureau, or the commanding Off
GER of the military post within which the appli-
can't resides, certifying the applicant 10 be fit
md proper person to receive the appointment
z. 1t is essential that every board of registra-
ion should be composed of persons of recog
liZed consideration and worth, fairly represent
ing the population, and in whose impartialty and
capacity the body of voters in the vcinage may
have just reliance.
s. The boundaries of precincts for registration
IN the several places within the precinct where
he board of registration will meet, the day or
The days on which the board will meet in each
precinct, and, also, such regulations as may be
for the government of registers and of
of election in the discharge of their
luties and to insure the accuracy and complete
less of the registration, will be duly published
for general information.
8. Post Commanda6s will report without delay
Upon the most eXpedient division of the territory
within their commands, into registration pre-
,incts-having reference, when practica BILE, to
existing laws and customs establishing the usual
voting places, and taking in view the importance
Of af0rding ample facilities for registration with
he least interruption of the ordinary avocations
Of the people.
By command Of Maj. Gen. D. z. S1cKLEs:
j. W. CLOUS,
Cant 3Sth Inf n G. and 4 A q