The tri-weekly standard., 1868-05-21

YANcEY.-Sherif, w E Peircy; coroner
Ephraim Honeycntt; treasurer, ] g HYATT
county clerk of superior court A Roberts.
register of deeds, David McCanless; survey,
or, J. r Neill commissioners, Wade Hamn-
ton, Leander Ray, John FL Ray, Kilpat-
rick, r N Atkins, JE
YADKIN.-Sheriff George Nicks; coroner,
w H Branon; treasurer, Benjamin Mackie:
county clerk of superior court, James A
Martin; register of deeds. s L Tulbert sur
veyor, Issac N Vestal; commissioners, II G
| Felts. Aquila Speer, John Algood, w w
Patterson, A S Jones.
! Seventh, That the following named persons
| have received majority OF the votes Cast
| by the qualified electors of their respective
! Congressional Districts as established hy an
ordinance of the Convention adopted on the
9Th day of March, 6S, and are entitled to
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 r
French.
Second Con ongressional District.--David
Heaton
Third Congressional District.-Oliyer H
Dockery.
Fourth Congressional District.-John T
Deweese.
Fifth Congressional District.-Israel G.
Lash.
Sixth Congressional Observation-Disclosures
Boyden.
Seventh Congressional District-Alexan-
der H 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
for delivery tiansmittal to the persons who
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 ofState for the State
of NORTH Carolina.
Under the provisions of the Constitution, the
General Assembly of the State elected there
under /" shall meet on the fifteenth day after the
approval thereof (the Constitution) by the Con-
gress of the United States if it fall not on Sum
day; but if it should SO fall, then on the next.
day thereafter" (Article II, Section 80
The officers of the Executive Department Of
the State, first elected, shall assume their
duties ten days after the approval of this Con-
stitution by the Congress o: the United States"
(Articie III, Section ~
Of this Constitution by the Congress of the Uni
ted States' (Article Nv, Section 81
The county officers provided for and elected
"shall enter upon their duties ten days after the
approval of this Constitution by the Congress of
the United States" (Article VII, Section l0)
But in order that there may be no confusion,
delay, or failure in the administration of justice
other governmental functions, and to ensure
the safety of public property. the Solicitor of
Judicial Circuits, clerks of courts sheritfs, coro
ners and other executive officers charged with
active ADMINISTRATION duties,
public records or the custody of public moneys
or public property, will not be relieved from re-
spOnsibility 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 able to
qualify under the Constitution and laws of the
United States and the Constitution and laws of
the State, and have so qualified, 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 %, 1857, amendatory of the
law of March 2 1867, 6 to provide for the more
efficient government of the rebel States" the Of
ficers 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
flee, and for other purposes This oath will be
taken in duplicate; one to be filed in the office
of the Secretary OF State for 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 as Article
XIV, or are unable to take the oath prescribed by
the law OF July 1862, they will not be allowed 10
discharge any official functions until the disabi-
ity has been removed by the Congress of the
United States, unless the oath of Office
quired 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 Mai. Gen. ED R. S. CANBY,
LOUIS V. CAZIARC,
Aide de- Camp,