Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-06-06
TELEGRAMS TO THE STAR,
This Afternoons Dispatches.
MORE TROUBLES IN NEW ORLEANS.
Proclamation Of the Board Of Repatriation
They Take Issue with the General
Comm ndinR

Comma nding.
NEW ORLEANS, June 6.-This morning :
Reluthcdn contains proclamation by the
board OF registers created by the late con ven
uon, which takes direct iss ue with the District
Commander. The proclamation quotes the
ordinance creating IL, and reeites that the Dis
trlct Commander has failed TO recognize the
requirements of the new Constitution. which
provides that all civil officers elected shall enter
upon the discharge OF their duties ON the second
Mohoay after the returns of election have been
omclally promulgated, or soon as qualified
according TO the law; also that the General
AIS. mbly shall mold its first session i'll New
orleans on the third Monday after the official
prom al CATION of the aforesaid: that the falIure
to inaugurate the State officers as above
provided would prevent the legal existence
OF the General Assembly, the present Acting
Governor being constitutionally unable to APP
prove any act of said General Assembly and
without the approval OF the Governor il being
impossible for any legislative enactment To he
come law, and thus effectually prevent re-
Congress: that the Conma ndiug General Is not
above the laws OF Congress nor above the Con
rention which framed the Constitution 1t con.
Cludes as follows:
Whereas the reconstruction laws fulIv am
powered the Constitutional Convention To gov
ern all matters of detail in regard TO the IN :
auguratlon OF the new government author
lzeu Dy congress; and whereas, the said
Con stiutlOnal Convention has delegatad its
iuil powers IN the premises to this board
Which is the legal representative OF said CON
l.. -.
chairman Of the Board OF Registration, afore
SAID, IN obedience to the duty imposed by said
constitutional convention. upon and by virtue
OF the authority thus vested in this board, do
hereby notify all civil officers elected under
said constitution, that sa id constitution req uires
that they qualify and take possession of their
respective offices on Monday, June IS, Is6-, in
accoi dance with article one hundred and fitty-
eight OF the constitution.
also notify the members of the General As
sembly OF Louisiana, elected under said Com
stituton, that by article 1s9 OF said constitution
they are required to convene in the city of New
orleans on Monday. June I'D, 1865, at twelve
o'clock, noon; and 1 further notify all civil
oncers now in office, that by the new constitu
tlon their terms of Office Will expire at twelve
o'clock, noon. on Monday, June 18TH Is6s at
which time they will deliver up said offices.
with all the appurtenances thereto, to their
successors, declared to be duly elected by the
Special Order, No. l22. OF the Military Com
mander of the Fifth Military District issued
June "a, 1o6e: provided that in all cases wKbre
the oHicers-elect do not qualify according to
the laws OF Congress and Of this State the
present incumbents will hold over until such
omcers shall qualify or 8 successor shall have
been appointed, or an officer declared elected
who is able to qualify.
(Signed) SIP PAcKApp
Chairman Roard al Rao,strat,op