The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-24
AND INsEPARABLE.. DANIEL WEBSTER
"a, 1867.
OFFICIAL.
Headquarters Second Military District,
CHARLESTON, 8. c., August 81, 1867.

ACouuuaTtcfb ScGO0Q n1llt3Iy UlStfICIs
-.. CHARLESTON, 8. c., August 81, 1867.
CIRCULAR.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS OF REGIS
TRATloN, FOR THEIR INFORMATION IN REvIs-
ING THE LISTS OF VoTKRs. 3~t @
l. All citizens are 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. -
No citizen is disqualified unless having held
Office under the United States, or having been a
member of the Legislature OF any State, or hav-
ing held some executive or judicial Office under a
general law of the State, he afterwards engaged
i'll the rebellion, or gave aid and comfort to per-
sons SO engaged; or unless, by the decree of a
competent judicial tribunal, or by an act OF Con-
gress, or law of State, he has been disfranchised
for rebellion against the United States, or for
felony. -...
Disqualified persons are OF several classes: for
example:
ist. 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 a egisla-
ture, or having held executive or judicial office
under 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 DISTINGUISHED by the
sentence Of a competent judicial tribunal for
felony.
9th. Any person otherwise qualified by resi-
dence and age, who has been disfranchised by law ;
for example, citizen of Tennessee, disfranchised
by the constitution and laws of that State, for
participation in the rebellion, who has become
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 a citizen included within the Sd or 4th class,
whose acts In aid of rebellion were not voluntary,
is qualified .."
towns or villages are not embraced in the Sd and
4th classes of paragraph I for example: police
man or a member of town guard, appointed by
town city authorities local health officers,
weighers, measurerS and inspectors of nlerchan-
die and produce: persons holding deputations
from civil officers such as deputy sheriffs and the
like: clerks and assistants appointed or employ
ed by civil officers: pouni-masters, jailors ap-
pointed by sheriffs, etc: these are not offices
created by law for the administration of general
law of State, torthe 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, a mayor of q 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 for 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
to enforce mere local ordinances in the nature of
the regulation of trade, and the abatement of nu-
isances, or other strictly corporate matters,
not within the DISTINGUISHING provisions of the
Act.
The circumstance, nevertheless, that the duties
of an officer were performed within prescribed
locality, for instance, either District, Coun-
ty, Parish, City or Town, does not screen him
from the operation of the disqualifying clauses,
provided, his duties had been prescribed by gen.
eral law; for example, Sheriffs of Counties, and
Constables of Towns, fill offices created by law
or 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 q
salary fixed by law, and raised by general tax,
an office; for example, a 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-
mates, do not hold offices, although these persons
arc in the public service.
Officers of Militia, employed in the execution
of the Pdtrol Lacs, or other laws having relation
to the domestic order of the State and the government
Of the Slave 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.
Certain e1nployments, licensed by authority of
State laws, having relation to the administration
of justice are not officers within the meaning OF
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
Notary Public, being q mere ministerial Off
Ger, and performing no executive or judicial du-
ties, is not within the disqualifying clauses of the
Acts of Congress.
Local officers, having executive powers and
duties defined by general laws, and embraced
within the civil polity of the State, although
or BY the Of the
offices, they voluntarily engaged in the re-
bellion, or afforded aid and comfort to the per-
sons SO engaged for example: ovcrseers of high
ways, land commissioners, overseers OF the poor,
Captains of Beat Companies.
Naturalized citizens, having abjured allegiance
to all sovereignty other than that of the United
States, and having taken upon themselves the
obligations and duties belonging to citizens, and
thereby the rights and privileges of cit
who afterwards r-nounced 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, or 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
IS citizens of the United States.
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.
LII. ApplcdtlOIS lOF TtSfStIuttOf1, WuttlcT dc-
pepted or rejected, and whether the oath is ad-
ministered or not, are required to be recorded in
the books furnished, and when the applicant is
deemed by the Board to be excluded from taking
The oath, q brief memorandum OF the grounds of
such decision will be entered for future revision
~. All citizens believing themselves qualified
should apply to be registered: attention is called
10 the following extract from the published reg
Nations for registration. -. -
''The Major General Commanding, in the exer-
Else of an ultimate revisory authority, will, in
1ue season, before the holding of any election,
and determine questions, assigning er
-ors in the registry, and will upon inspection of
the completed lists, cause corrections of the
ame, that the true design and purpose OF the
avs be faithfully answered, and that all the
lights thereby guaranteed be fully and fairly en-.
Dyed" -.s t'a .s '-r.
-...-,r- PAY AND EXPENSES. . g-1.-
V. The pay of Registrars will be four dollars
per day for each day actually and necessarily en-
oloyed in the performance of their official duties.
vi. No allowance for clerk hire will be made.
VII. The allowance for the rent of room for
he meetings OF. the Board, including furniture
md fixtures, will not exceed the rate of fifteen
$15) per month. f5...
VIII The actual cost of such stationery as
shall be actually and necessarily consumed In Of
articles, and no Others, will be deemed station
TX. Mileage will be allowed to Registrars in
leu of transportation, at the rate Of ten cents
per mile for each mile actually and necessarily
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