The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-02-14

pieteu ana maze accessible to all the cleo
tors of the State at least one week before
each general election.
Secoad.-For the times of holding all
elections, the time for holding which is not
liked by this act; and also for the places
and manner of holding and conducting all
the elections contemplated by this act, in
Guiding rules for receiving, counting, GER
tifying, and returning the votes cast, the
granting certificates Of election, the APP
pointment and compensation Of ell judges
and other officers Of elections, and for every
other thing which shall be necessary to the
holding Of free election by the people.
But the officers and agents appointed to
make such registrations, and to conduct,
make returns of, certify to, or do any act
touching any election, shall be persons en-
titled to the rights Of an elector under the
provisions Of this act; and all those per-
sons shall, before entering on such duties,
take and subscribe to the oath aforesaid,
prescribed by the LIST section of the act of
I'd July, 1862; and also to faithfully and
impartislly discharge the duties Of their
office.
SECTION Z. and be It further enacted,
That upon the third Tuesday of October,
A. ID. 1867, unless the Congress Of the
United States should by law otherwise pro-
vide, an election shall be held by all the
persons qualified to vote under the provi-
sions of the act for the choice of members
to convention to adopt permanent con-
-stitution and form of government for the
State Of Louisiana. No person shall be
eligible to seat In such convention who
has not attained the sga of twenty five
years, and who has not ell the other quail
fcations prescribed by this act for Co.
vernon; and such convention shall be COM
posed Of the same number Of members,
and shall be elected from the same districts
as is now provided by law for the House of
take seat in such convention who has not
convention subscribed, the oath prescribed
by the last section Of the act of July 2,
1862.
The Constitution framed by such Con-
vention shall not permit any distinction of
men on account of race or color, and shall
recognize the power and duty Of the Co.
vernment of the United States to protect
and enforce the perpetual union Of the
States under such government.
Such constitution shall provide that no
debt, demand, or liability contracted or
incurred in the name of the State or other
wise in support of the recent rebellion
shall be assumed or paid; and that no
pension, compensation, gift, or gratuity
shall be bestowed upon or paid by the
State to any person by reason of anything
done or suffered in support of the re-
bellion.
Such constitution shall be submitted for
approval by the convention at such time
as it may fix to the electors of the State
qualified to vote under the provisions of
this act, the election to be held under
rules prescribed as aforesaid by the Secre-
tary of War, and ifapproved by majority
of such electors it may be presented to
Congress for the admission of the State to
representation in Congress Hereunder.
: SECTION 8. And be 1t further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of the President
of the United States to designate forthwith
an officer of the army Of the United States
who is of rank not below brigadier-gene-
raj, who shall be stationed in the State Of
Louisiana, and shall be the military COM
mander within the State; it shall more
over be the duty of the President to place
in such State, under the command of such
officer, such military force as shall be re-
quisite to execute the duties herein as
signed to such commander. 1t shall be the
duty of such commander, whenever the
civil authorities in such State shall be un-
able to, OF shall from any cause neglect, omit,
or refuse to see that all the laws are speedily
enforced for the punishment or prevention
of crimes or offences against the rights Of
any person whomsoever, to at once arrest
and hold such offenders until the civil au-
thorities shall cause such offences to be
duly prosecuted. And it shall moreover
be the duty Of such commander to render
such support to the civil authorities in the
preservation of order and in the enforce
ment of the laws and rules regulating cleo
tions, and also all other laws, both of the
United States and of the State, as shall
insure the full, speedy, and impartial en-
forcement of all such laws, and of equal
Justice and this without regard to race or
color.
SECTION 9. And be 1t further enacted,
That all laws passed by the Provisional
Council, or by the Legislature herein pro-
vided for, shall as speedily as possible after
their enactment be duly certified and
transmitted to the Secretary Of the Senate
of the United States for the approval of
Congress, and should the same be disap-
proved by Congress, the fact shall be at
once duly certified and transmitted to the
Chief Justice of Louisiana, and the date Of
the receipt thereof shall be endorsed
thereon; and filed and preserved in the re-
cords of the Supreme Court; and all laws
so dsapproved shall be void after the date
of such endorsement.
SECTION 10. BE 1t further enacted, That
until the people of Louisiana shall be ad-
mitted to representation in the Congress of
the United States under such loyal and
republicangovernmen as the United States
shall recognize and assume to guarantee,
such people shall be entitled to one dele
gate in the House of Representatives, to be
elected at the first general election pro-
vided for in this act by the qualified cleo
tors of the State, as provided in this act.
Such delegate must be person who has
the qualifications for and could hold the
office of Governor under the provisions of
this act, and he shall have the same powers
and rights now held by delegates from the
Territories of the United States.
SECTION 2. Be 1t further enacted, That
all laws now in force in Louisiana consist
emit with the Constitution and laws of the
United States and with the provisions of
this act shall remain in force until repealed
or modified, provided that no person shall
be competent to act as juror who is not
an elector under the provisions Of this act !;
and provided, also, that all the expenses of
and incident to the administration Of the
provisional government herein provided
for shall be collected and paid as is now