Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-10-15
Order with Regard to the Elections.

General SchOteld has issued an order pre-
scribing regulations for conducting heapproach-
ing elections for the Convention, and making
returns of the same, from which we extract the
clauses of general interest to the public $50
HID QRs. FIRST MILITARY DISTRICT,
STATE OF VIRGINIA,
RICHMOND, Va, October 4, 1867.
"General Orders No. 6S:
1.-THE following regulations will be observed
in conducting the election to be held in this
military district on the 22d instant and in ma
king the returns thereof:
DIRECTIONS FOR CONDUCTING THE ELECTION.
81. All persons who are registered as voters
in the districts or wards where they present
their ballots will be permitted to VOTE and no
ballot will be received from persons who are not
properly registered, except in cases where the
name of the person applying to vote may have
been incorrectly recorded on the registration
lists, in which case if the officer conducting the
election is satisfied either from his own person
al knowledge or from the testimony of credible
witnesses that the person was actually regis
tered, then such person will be permitted to
vote.
"a. Every person presenting ballot at the
polls shall announce his name, and if, upon eX
animation, it is found that he has been regis
tered as a voter, his ballot will be received and
corded in its proper alphabetical order on the
poll books.
SO. Two ballot-boxes will be opened in each
district or ward in one of which will be depos-
tied the ballots of all white voters, and in the
other the ballots of all colored voters, and the
names of the white and colored voters will be
recorded on separate poll books. In districts
or wards where there are more than five hun
dred registered voters the polls for the white
and colored electors will be opened at different
places but these places should be convenient
ly near to each other, and, if practicable, at
different doors or windows of the same room.
IS. No candidate for election as delegate to
the Convention shall oficiate as registering Off
Ger or assistant at the election.
81. All places in this military district where
intoxicating liquors are sold at retail shall be
closed at sunset on the day preceding, and re-
main closed until sunrise on the day succeeding
the election.
IS. Any person attempting by force, intimi-
dalton, or fraud, to prevent any qualified cleo
tor from voting freely shall be at once arrested
and charges preferred against him by the reg
istering officer, in order that he may be brought
to trial before military commissioner.
49, The constable of each district and in
each ward two or more police officers, to be Sc
lected by the mayor of the city, will be equired
to be present at the places of voting during the
whole time the polls are open and the votes be-
ing counted, and will be held responsible for the
preservation of good order during the day and
the execution of paragraph of this order.
40. The registering officer appointed to con-
duct the election is authorized, during the time
the election is being held and the votes counted,
to exercise the powers conferred upon military
commissioner. S SKIS
I'll. In all cases where person registered
as voter is arrested for any offence during the
time the polls are open, if he has not voted at
the time of his arrest, he will be permitted to
cast his ballot before he is taken away to con-
inement.
'16 The commanding General confidently
hopes and believes that the people of the State
will unite in securing for each other the full and
free exercise of the elective franchise; but if
this should not be the case in any district or
ward, or if from accident, fraud, or otherwise
the ballot boxes or poll books should be lost or
destroyed. new election will be ordered in
such district or ward.
''By command Of Brigadier and Brevet Ma
jor-General Schofeld
IS. F. CHALFIN.
Assistant Adjutant-G General -