Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-06-07
HEApQ'Rs FIRST MILITARY DIsrRIcT, }
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
RICHMOND, VA, June 3, 1867. }

RICHMOND, VA, June 3, 1867.
GENERAL ORDERS
No. 81.
The following instructions for the govern
ment of Boards Of Registration are published
as an appendix to the regulations prescribed
in General Orders No. %, Of May Is, 1868:
1. All male citizens Of the United States,
twenty-one years Of age and upwards, of
whatever race, color or previous condition,
who have been resident in the State for one
year, except such as may be disfranchised for
participation in the rebellion, or for felony,
are entitled to be registered as voters, upon
their taking and subscribing the oath or aflir-
nation prescribed by the act Of Congress of
March %, 1867.
9. All those who were at any time mem
bers of Congress, or officers Of the United
States, civil or military, and as such officers
took an oath to support the Constitution of
the United States, and all who were at any
time members of any State Legislature, or
executive or judicial officers Of any State,
and afterwards engaged instruction or re-
bellion against the United States. or gave aid
or comfort to the enemies thereof; and all
who have been convicted Of felony against
the laws Of any State or Of the United States
are DISTINGUISHED.
3. No one is disfranchised for participation
in rebellion, unless he previously held some
one of the Offices above named.
4. The following will be regaadel as exc
cutive and judicial officers Of the State of
Virginia, within the meaning Of the law, viz
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, secretary
of State, Auditor Of Public Accounts, End
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 Hust-
ings, Justices of the County Courts, Mayor,
Recorder and Aldermen of any city or incor
porated town, who are e:n-oBicio Justices,
Coroners Of towns and counties, Escheators,
Inspectors of tobacco, -four and other COM
modities
5. All persons who voluntarily joined the
rebel army, and all persons in that army,
whether volunteers or conscripts, who COM
mitted roluntDrily any hostile act, thereby
engaged in instruction or rebellion. 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 possible, cannot be said to
have engaged in the rebellion.
6. All who exercised the functions Of any
office under the Confederate Government or
the Government of any one of the Confeder-
ate States, which functions were of a nature
to aid in prosecuting the war or maintaining
the hostile character of those governments,
and all who voted for the ordinance Of seces-
sion, engaged in the rebellion or gave aid
and comfort to the enemy.
T. Those who rNunturily furnished sup
plies of food, clothing, arms, ammunition,
horses or mules, or any other material q war,
or labor or service Of any kind, to the Con-
federate Military or Naval forces, or money,
by loan, or otherwise, to the Confederate
Government, OF equipment Of troops, gave
aid and comfort to the enemy, and partlclpa-
ted in the rebellion and civil war against the
United States
8. To give individual soldiers food OF
clothing enough to relieve present suffering
or to minister to the sick or wounded, arc
simple acts Of charity or humanity, and do
not constitute giving ''aid or comfort to the
enemy" a parent may give his son who
belongs to the hostile army, food and cloth
ing for his own use but if he give him &
gun, horse, or eother things, to be used fol
4 hostile purposes, he thereby gives aid ane
comfort to the enemy.
4 9. Whenever, after the examination re
quired by paragraph II, Of the regulations
Of May 18th, the Board is still in doubt a.
to the right of the applicant to be registered
as voter and he is then willing to take Tho
prescribed oath, the Board will give to tina
oath its full weight, and register the appli
can't as voter.
10. In the lists of those who are ''regis
tered after challenge and examination" ane
those who are rejected upon challenge,
the Board will state in each case, what Office
or offices the person held previous to the lat
war, and what insurrectionary or rebellion
acts he committed, and what kind of aid O
comfort he gave to those engaged in insur
rection or rebellion.
II. The challengers provided for in Para
grape II of the Regulations of May 18th
will be selected by the Board from the mos
respectable and intelligent voters of the Dis
trict or Ward, those who have the most ex
tended acquaintance with the people, thos
who are interested in securing a fair and jus
registration, and who will be most likely t
detect and expose any attempt at fraudulen
registration. The challengers may be change
at any time, at the discretion Of the Board
they will not be entitled to any pay for thel
services.
II. Boards of Registration will adher
strictly to the regulations published for thci
government, and will spare no pains to secur
a just and fair registration according to thes
) Instructions Ii any who are entered upo
the lists as rejected by the Board after cha]
lenge and examination, still believe they ar
entitled to vote, and are willing to take til
prescribed oath, that oath will be administer
ed Cf it has not already been taken by tn
applicant and the fact of his having takel
the oath will be recorded opposite his nam
on the register. Much diligence will be re
!, quired, especially in cities, on the part
members Of the Board and challengers,
prevent fraudulent registration of person