Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-09-16
REGIsTRATIoN By RADICALS.

their ticket in Missouri, we copy che following:
INSTRUCTIONS TO BOARDS OF REGISTRATION
At Convention of Superintendents of Reg
istratiOn. held at st. Louis, Mo-, on Thursday,
August Ii, 1868, the following rules were
adopted as instructions to be given by each
Superintendent to the various Boards of Reg
istration, in this Senatorial District, to govern
them in the registration of qualified voters:
Therefore, in accordance with the action of
said Convention, you will strictly adhere to
these rules, and enforce them according to
their letter, spirit and intent
Rule LIST. The oath of loyalty will not be ad-
ministered by the Board to those persons who
enrolled, or caused or permitted themselves to
be enrolled disloyal or Southern sympathizers
"a. The man or person against whom no
open or particular act of rebellion, secession,
disloyalty or Southern sympathy is known, or
can be brought, but whose associations during
the rebellion were mostly, if not entirely and
altogether, confined to and were with rebels,
secessionists, and those persons whose feelings
opinions and sentiments and sympathy were
known, and believed. aud understood to be
for and with the rebellion, cannot nor will not
be registered as qualified voters unless he re-
moves. beyond doubt, by the competent evil
dence required by Rule 5th of these instruc-
tons, the presumption of disloyalty raised
against him by such associations and the com.
pany he kept during the war
Sd. Young men who have become of age
since the closing of the last general registry
made in 1866, and whose associations, connec.
tons and antecedents are, and were rebels,
disloyalists, Southern sympathizers and rebel
lious in feeling and sentiment, cannot nor will
not be registered as qualified voters, unless
they remove, beyond a doubt, by the compe-
tent evidence required in Rule 5th of these in
structions, the presumption of disloyalty raised
against them by being so connected or asso-
ciated.
4th. To establish his right to be registered
as qualified voter, the person presenting him
self before the Board Of Registration must
prove, beyond doubt, by the competent evil
dence required in Rule 9Th of thes,. instruc-
tiOns, that he is not nor nerer has been guilty
of any of the acts specified in the CONSTITUTION
of the State of Missouri and the Registration
law.
9Th. The competent evidence spoken of in
the foregoing rules, and which you will imper-
atively require, in establishing the right of any
one to be registered as qualified voter, is
and must, and shall be, men VINO were uncon-
dltiOnal Union men from the beginning to the
end of the war. and who were openly and
publicly known to be and recognized as active,
uncenpromsing. unconditional Union nen
from the inception of the re ellion to its close,
and who have since the suppression of the re-
belun demeaned themselves as active haters
and opponents of the rebel cause, and who
have not united and affiliated politically with
rebels. secessionists and Southern sympathi-
GERS since the putting down Of the rebellion.
9th. Those persons who were residents Of
the county sixty days, and in the State one year
btfurr the last biennial election, and did not
present themselves before the Board for regis
tratinn when the general registry was made in
1906 cannot now be registered as qualified vo-
ters, unless they were kept away from the
registry by threats, fear or intimidation, or
possessed the undOubtrd qualifications, but
neglected to apply for registration.
9TH. Taking an oath that person Is not nor
never has been guilty Of any of the acts of
disqmallications specified in the Constitution
of the State, shall not b. conclusive evidence
of his loyalty, nor swearing that he has never
been disloyal or sympathized with the South,
shall not be conclusive evidence of his right to
BE- registered as qualified voter, but if Il
doubt exists in the minds OF the Board Ut Reg
as to his loyalty or right to be regis
tered as qualified voter, the, person against
whom the doubt exists. must remove said
doubt to the satisfaction ut the Board, aud IL
must be by the COMPETENT evidence required
by Rule 9TH of these instruction.
9Th The benefit of all and every doubt must
and shall be in favor of the State or law, and
no prrson applying for registration as quail
fed voter. shall claim or have the benefit of
such doubt or doubts.
9th General reputation for disloyalty south
ern sympathy, srcessloHlsn or rebelliOus IN
feeling opinion aud sentiment is and shall be
sufficient cause for the Board of Registration
to reject, unless dlsprov-d by the competent
evidence required in Rule 18th of the instruc-
lions, aud the mere absence of any known
open avert act of disOyalty is not nor shall not
be sufficient t. establish PERSONS right to be
registered as a qualified voter.
10th. A person claiming to be- naturalized
citlzru and presenting himself before Board
OF Registration to b. registered as qualified
voter, according to Rule 5th. and that he is
not nor never has been guilty of any of the
acts specified in the Constitution Of the State,
must produce before the Board his naturalIZa-
ton apers, and in case of their loss he must
establish their loss by the next best competent
ryidruce His own oath in such cases shall
not be conclusive, but, if doubted by the Board
it must be supported by the competent evil
dence required by Rule 5th.
18th. The sO-called Amnesty Proclamation
issued by President Andrew johnson, on the
I'd day of July. 1865, purportiug to remove
dIsqualiticati0ns from rebels, secessionists and
Southern sympathisers. and purporting to res
tore them to all their political rights and priv
ilrges which they forfeited by their acts of trea
son and rebellion, il not nor shall not in M
case whatsoever be considered az emitting a