Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-05-24
Registration Regulation

MILITARY DISTRICT, STATE OF VA,
Richmond, Va, May Is, 1866
General Orders, No. %.
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 and city, &C
cording to its size, and one for each magiste-
rial district or ward.
2. One principal Board Of Registration,
and as many assistant boards as may be CON
venient, each to consist of three officers, will
be organized in each county or city by the
President Of the Board, under instructions
heretofore issued from these headquarters.
3. The President of the Board for the
county or city will apportion the districts or
wards among the principal and assistant
boards, determine the order in which the sew
eral districts or wards assigned to each Board
shall be registered, the time to to be allotted
to each, and will instruct the registering Off
Ger of each district or ward to publish accor-
dinghy the notices hereinafter required, and
to make the necessary preparations for the
meeting Of the Board in his district or ward
A. The President of the Board will also
designate the place Of registration in each
district or ward, which will be selected with
reference to the general convenience Of yo-
ers.
5. There shall be one place Of registration,
and only one. in each magisterial district, or
ward, where all the qualified voters, resi-
dents Of the district or ward, shall be regis
tered
6. 1t shall be the duty of the registering
officer of each district or ward to register the
voters of that district or ward, keep the rec
ords, prepare the required report to the Com
handing General. and to do such other min
isterial duty as may be ordered by the Board
or by the President thereof. But all ques-
tons of the right Of persons to be registered
must be decided by the full Board.
7. The Board Of Registration shall, in
each district or ward, in five of the most pub
lie places therein cause written or printed
notices to be posted, which notices shall des-
ignate the time and place, when and where
the registration will be held, the number of
days the Board will be in session for the pur-
pose of registration, and the length of time
each day, and inviting all persons qualified
to vote under the provisions Of the act of
Congress of March End, 1867. entitled :" An
act to provide for more efficient government
Of the rebel States" and the act supplement
tary thereto, passed March 23rd, 1867, to
appear before the Board for registration.
8. These notices shall be posted at least
ten days before the commencement of the reg
istration in the district or ward in which they
are posted.
8. 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 for the district or ward shall
meet at the place designated in such notice,
and, having taken the prescribed oath, enter
upon their duties.
II. The room in which the registration is
to be made shall be so arranged that the
Board Of Registration, and persons admitted
as challengers and witnesses shall be separa-
ted from those to be registered; no one be-
ing permitted within the enclosure in addi-
ton to those named, except the person to be
registered, or examined for registration =
The persons to be registered being admitted
one by one; and their entry and egress to be
SO arranged as to avoid confusion
- For the purpose Of securing just reg
istration, and to prevent the registration of
any person not entitled to vote under the
provisions ofthe said act Of Congress of March
2ud, 1867, or the act supplementary thereto
three white and three colored persons, vo-
ters 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 we'll as that Of
each member of the Board, to challenge the
ri4ht of any person to be registered, who, in
the opinion Of the person challenging, is dis
qualified as voter by reason Of any of the
causes set forth in said acts of Congress.
Upon such challenge being made, the Board
shall examine the person presenting himself
for registration, in reference to each cause of
disqualification menti, nd in said act and the
act supplementary thereto. Evidence shall
also be heard, if offered, to substantate the
cause Of challenge, or to rebut that offered
IN support of it.
IS. In registering the voters, the names
Of the whites aud colored persons registered
shall be entered in separate columns of the
list kept for that purpose, which lists, after
the registration shall have been completed
shall be alphabe tically arranged-the names
of the white and colored voters still being
kept in separate columns Three separate
lists shall be kept. The first shall contain
the names of all voters who shall be regis
tered without challenge, after taking the pre-
scribed oath set forth in the 1st section Of the
supplement to the aforesaid act. The second
those who may be registered after challenge
made and the third. those who may be re-
jected upon challenge.
IA. Opposite the name of each person
challenged, whether registered as entitled to
vote or not, the cause of challenge will be
clearly stated, and also the facts relating
thereto as developed by the examination Of
the board.
IS. The Board shall sit at the place dcsig-
mated in the notices herein before mentioned,
at least eight hours each day for not less
than three consecutive days, (oundays ex-
cepted, as set forth in said notice. to regis
ter the names of all persons in said District
who are qualified to vote under the provis-