New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-09-22
LAWS OFTHEsTATE OF LOUISIANA
PUBLISHED BY AUTHoR1TYl
AN ACE

AN ACT
To Define More Fully the Powers and Du-
ties OF the Board of Registration and
Supervisors Thereof, for the Registration
OF the Qualified Voters of the State.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the State of
Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
mat 1t shall be the duty of the Board OF
Registration to compile a series OF rules,
together with q transcript OF the constitu,
tlonal, naturalization aud other laws per
! tanning TO the qualification of electors, upon
which said rules shall be based, and cause
the same to be printed in pamphlet form, at
an expense not exceeding the regular legal
rates Tor State printing, and said Board shall
cause ten copies to be sent to each Board OF
Supervisors IN the various parishes and dis.
trlcts IN the State for the guidance of said
Supervisors in making said registration
said copies shall be forwarded with other
books, etc, forthwith to the Supervisors Of
Registration.
SEC. 2. Be 1t further enacted etc, That
SAID Board of Registration shall immediat-
ely, after entering upon their duties, pro-
ceed TO provide all necessary books and
stationery of substantial qualities and suit
able sizes, appropriately ruled and printed,
at rates not exceeding the legal rates under
the State printing law; and as fast rs said
DOCKS and stationery can be procured, the
same shall be sent TO the Supervisors of
Registration in each parish and district by
the most feasible mode of conveyance, at
the expense of the State.
SEC. g. Be it further enacted, etc., That
SAID Board of Registration shall authorize
the Supervisors of Registration in the
parishes OF Orleans and Jefferson to employ
Tor each OF the municipal districts of the
city OF New Orleans and for the right bank
OF the Mississippi river and parish of Jeffer-
son, two competent clerks at q salary not
exceeding three dollars per day during the
time the registration is going on, at the ex-
pense of the State.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, ETC.. That
majority OF the members present at any
meeting Of the Board of Registration OF Su.
pervisors of Registration of any of the par
lshes or districts as aforesaid shall constitute
quorum for the transaction of any business
that may come before them.
Bee. 5. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the supervisors of Registration appointed
by The Governor TO open registration books
lor revision shall be allowed a salary of five
dollars per day for the time they are EN-
ployed in said revision in each of the
parishes.
Sec. G. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
said Board of Registration shall approve all
oils for the expense of the aforesaid books,
stationery, clerk hire, ETC., and shall draw
tHo wal avs ioI the same, SUBJECT 10 the
approval OF the Governor, to be paid out of
any fund not otherwise appropriated from
the Treasury.
SEC. Z. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
all laws and paris of laws in conflict
with this act are hereby repealed, and this
Act to take effect from and after the date OF
its passage.
(Signed) CHAS. W.,LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved September 10, 1868
(Signed) II. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.
A true copy:
ep GEO. E. BovEE,
..rl tt-r Secretary of State,