The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-05-30


- YANcEY.-Sherif w EjiPeircy; coroner
Ephraim Honeycutt; treasurer, } u Hyatt )
county clerk of superior court, A Roberts !;
register of deeds, David McCanless; survey
or ]. r Ncill commissioners, Wade lamp
ton, Leander Ray, John Ray, kllPat-
rick, r N Atkins, Jr j: s....# .f... F--
TADK1N.-Shcriff. George Nicks; coroner,
w II Branon; treasurer, Benjamin Macklei
county clerk of superior court, james n
| Martin register of deeds. l. Tulbert sur
veyor, Issac n Vestal; commissioners, Ii y
Felts Aquila Speer, John Algood, w
Patterson, A S Jones.
,Secenth, That the following named persons
have received ma ority OF the votes cast
by the qualified electors of their respective
Congressional Districts, as established ny an
ordinance of the Convention adopted on the
9Th day Of March, 6S, and are entitled t"
certificates Of election as members OF the
House of Representatives of the Congress
of the United States for the said Districts,
as herein specified:
First Congressional District.-John Il
French. ~ .-....-...-
Second Congressional District.--David
Heaton.
Third Congressional District.-Oliver H
Dockery.
Fourth Congressional District-John T
Deweese.
Fifth Congressional District.-Israel G
Lash.
Sixth Congressional District Nathaniel
Boyden.
Seventh Congressional observation-disclosures
der II Jones.
The certificates of election will be sent direct
to the State executive and judicial officers, and
to the members elect of the House of representa-
tives Of the Congress of the United States; but
for convenience and safety of transmission, the
certificates for the members elect of the General
Assembly will be sent to the Commanding Officer
Post of Raleigh, for delivery upon application by
the persons who are entitled to receive them.
For like reasons, the certificates for the county
offices will be sent to the Commanding Officers
ofPosts for the counties within their jurisdiction,
for delivery or tiansmittal to the persons who
are entitled to receive them.
A certified abstract of the returns made by the
election officers, will be prepared and deposited
in the office of the Secretary of State Tor the State
of North Carolina.
Under the provisions of the Constitution, the
General Assembly of the State elected there
under g shall meet on the fifteenth day after the
approval thereof (the Constitution) by the Con
gresS of the United States, if it fall not Sun
day; but if it should so fall, then on the next
day thereafter (Artielc II, Section 29)
The officers of the Executive Department of
the State, "frst elected, shall assume their
duties ten days after the approval of this Con
sttution by The Congress oi the United States"
(Articic H. Section ~
cial Department g shall begin upon the approval
of this Constitution by the Congress of the Uni
ted States" (Article ~, Section 81
The county officers provided for and elected
d" shall enter upon their duties ten days after the
approval of this Constitution by the Congress of
the United States" (Article VII, Section 10.)
But in order that there may he no confusion,
delay, or failure il the administration of Justice
or other governmental functions, and to ensure
the safety of public property, the Solicitor, of
judicial Circuits, clerks of courts, shcritis coro
ncrs and Other executive officers charged with
active ADMINISTRATION duties, with the of
public records, or the custody of public moneys
or public property, will not be relieved from re-
sponsibliiy for the due discourage of the duties
OF their offices until their Successors are duly
qualified.
1t is made the duty of Commanders of Posts,
within the limits of their respective jurisdictions
to see that the officers elect who arc able to
qualify under the Constitution and laws of the
United States and the Constitution and laws of
the State, and have qualified, are duly INSTALL
ed in the offices to which they have been elected
and as above prescribed.
Under the requirements of the ninth Section
of the law OF July %, 1867, amendatory of the
law of March 9 1867, g to provide for the more
efficient government OF the rebel States,' the Of
icers elect both of the Legislative and executive
departments, will, before entering upon the dis
charge of the duties of their Offices take and
subscribe the oath of Office prescribed by the
law of July ?, 1862, &C to prescribe oath of of
flee, and, for other purposes" This oath will be
taken IN LsLey :, 90. the office
III Secretary of State oF the State OF North
| Carolina, and the other to be forwarded to Dis
trict Headquarters.
| If any OF the State officers elected under the
| new Constitution are disqualified by the third
Section of the proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States, known Article
XIV, unable to take the oath prescribed by
the law OF July2 1862 they will not be allowed to
discharge any official functions until the disabil
ity has been removed by the Congress of the
United States, unless the oath of office re-
qured by the ninth Section OF the abovecited
law shall have previously been dispensed with by
law, or unless the said ninth Section sh I'll have
become imperative by the fact that the people
of the State have been declared by law to be en-
titled to representation in the Congress of the
United States.
By Command of
Bvt. Maj Gen. ED. R. S. CANDY,
LOUIS V. CAZIARC,
hide de Camp,
Actg. Asst. 4djt. Genl