The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-04
ELECTION ORDER FOR THE STATE OF
ALABAMA.

ALABAMA.
HEADo,Rs THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT,
GEORGIA, ALABAMA, AND FLORIDA,
ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 20, 1867.
General Orders,
No. 1O1.
WHEREAS convention recently assem-
bled at Montgomery. Alabama, in COM
pliance with General Orders, No. &c. from
these headquarters, did, in pursuance of the
acts of Congress mentioned in said order,
proceed to frame constitution and civil
government for the State of Alabama, and
provided for the publication of the consti-
tuition, and did further enact the following
ordinance:
Be 1T ordained by the people Of the State of
alabama in cOnoention assembled
SECTION 1. That the constitution adopted
by this convention he submitted for ratifica-
ton to the voters this State registered and
known as the reconstruction laws" be-
ginning on Tuesday, the fourth day of
February, eighteen hundred and sixty eight.
The vote on said constitution shall be g for
the constitution" and against the con-
stitution." The said election shall be held
at the places and under the regulations to be
prescribed by the commanding general of
this military district, ar d the returns made
to him as directed by law.
H. And whereas the acts of Congress pro-
vide that an election for ratification of said
constitution shall be conducted by the
officers or persons appointed, or to be APP
pointed by the commanding general, and at
the date to he fixed by said convention.
1t is ordered: That all election be held in
the State of Alabama, commencing Tuesday,
the fourth (4th) day of February, 1868, and
continuing two days, at which the registered
voters of said State may vote for or against
the constitution submitted to them by the
foregoing ordinance of the convention.
III. 1t shall be the duty of boards of reg
istration in Alabama, in accordance with said
acts, commencing fourteen Q4) days prior to
the election herein ordered, and giving rea-
sonable public notice of the time and place
thereof to revise for Il period of five days the
registration lists, and upon being satisfied
that any person not entitled thereto, has been
registered, to strike the name of such person
from the lists, and such person shall not be
allowed to vote. The boards OF registration
shall also, during the same period. add to
suoh registry the names OF all persons who
at that time possess the qualifications re-
quired by said act who have not been al
ready registered.
". The said election shall be held in each
county under the superintendent of the
boards of repatriation, as provided by law,
and polls will be opened after due and sutfi-
Gent notice, at as many points in each coun-
ty as in the opinion of the said boards may
be required for the convenience of voters.
V. ANY registered voter of the State who
may have removed from the county in which
he was registered shall be permitted to vote
in the county to which he has removed, upon
making affidavit before member of the
board of registration, or a judge of election,
that he was registered, naming the county
in which he was so registered, and that he
has not voted at this election. Blanks for
such aftidavits will be supplied by the boards
of registration, and the name of the voter
making oath must be endorsed on his ballot,
and all such affidavits forwarded with the
returns of the election.
VI. And whereas the said convention did
enact by further provisions of said ordl-
nance:
SEC. g. An election shall be held at the
same time and places, as the election for the
ratification of the constitution for Senators
and Representatives in the General Assem-
bly,, and for all State and county officers who
are to be elected by the people under the
constitution.
SEC g. The number of Supreme Court
Judges shall be one chief justice and two
associate justices. The chancery divisions
and judicial circuits shall remain as now ex-
listing.
SEC. 4. The said election for State and
county officers shall be conducted under the
same regulations as the election for the rat
of the constitution, and by the
same persons. The returns of said election
shall be made to the president of this con-
hn hal Cyiv nf oil
ton to the persons chosen for the respective
Offices The officers so elected shall COM
mence the discharge of the duties of the of
fees for which they were chosen as soon as
elected and qualified, in compliance with
the provisions of the constitution herewith
and shall hold their respective
offices for the terms of years prescribed by
the constitution, beginning from the day of
the next general election after such admiss-
ion of the State into the Union, and I'M
til their successors are elected and quail
led.
SEC. s.. An election for members of the
House of Representatives of the United !
States shall be held in each of the congress
onal districts as now established at the |
same time and places as the election for the |
'atifcation of the constitution. Said cleo
ion shall be conducted by the same persons
md under the same regulations as before |
mentioned in this ordinance. The returns
hall be made to the president of this con-
'ention, who shall give to the persons cho-
en- certificates of the election.
Sec. 6. The members of the General AS
emily, elected under this ordinance, shall
at the Capitol in the city of Mont
,omery, ON Wednesday, the 18th day of
farch, 1858.
SEC. 7. The commanding general of this
Military district is requested to enforce this
rdinance.
VII 1t is further ordered, that in COM
lance with the request contained in the
,regoipg ordinance. the boards of registra-
on will instruct the proper officers conduc
ng the election on the question of ratifying
he constitution to conduct also, at the same
me and places the election for such State
III comfy officers and memhers of Cnnuress |