The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-02


YANcEY-Sherrf. W E PERCY; coroner,
Ephraim Honeycutt; treasurer, G Hyatt !;
county clerk of superior court, A ] Roberts !;
register of deeds, David McCanless survey
or, J. r Neill; commissioners, Wade Hamp-
ton, Leander Ray, John Ell Ray, j @ Kilpat-
rick, r N Atkins, Jr. adH -i.
YADKIN.-Sheriff George Nicks; coroner,
w II Branon; treasurer, Benjamin Mackie;
county clerk of superior court, James A
Martin register of deeds. S L Tubert sur
veyor, Issac N Vestal commissioners, III G
Felts. Aquilla Speer, John Algood, w w
Patterson, A S Jones.
ISeoenth, That the following named persons
have received majority of the votes cast
by the qualified electors of their respective
Congressional Districts, rs established by an
ordinance of the Convention adopted on the
9Th day of March, SO, 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 Congressional District. David
Heaton.
Third Congressional District.-Oliver III
Dockery.
Fourth Congressional District.-John T
Deweese
| Fifth Congressional Distrct.-lsrael u
Lash.
Sixth Congressional District Nathaniel
! Boyden.
Seventh Congressional observation-disclosures
der III 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 entitled to receive them.
For like reasons, the certificates for the county
offices will be sent to the Commanding Officers
of Posts for the counties within their Jurisdiction,
| for delivery 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 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 Sun
day; but if it should so fall, then the next
day thereafter" ARTICLE III, Section %
| 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"
| (Artice III, Section ~
| The term of office of all officers of the Judi
| clal Department shall Degln upon the approval
| of this Constitution by the Congress of the Uni
! ted States" (Article ~, Section 81
The county officers provided for and elected
"shal enter upon their duties ten days alter the
| approval of this Constitution by the Congress of
the United States" ARTICLE VII, Section l0.)
But in order that there may be confusion,
delay, or failure in the administration of Justice
| or other governmental functions, and to ensure
the safety of public property, the Solicitor of
Judicial Circuits, clerks of courts, sherifs, coro
ners and other executive officers charged with
active ADMINISTRATION duties, or with the care of
public records, or the custody of public moneys
or public property, will not be relieved from re-
spOnsibili1y 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, are duly INSTALL
cd in the offices to which they have been elected
and US above prescribed.
Under the requirements of the ninth Section
of the law OF July %, 1867, amendatory OF the
law OF March . 1867, " to provide for the more
efficient government OF the rebel States" the of
iiccrs 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, "to prescribe an oath of Of
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
trct Headquarters.
If any of the State officers elected under the
new Constitution disqualified by the third
Section of the proposed amendment to the Con
stitution of the United States, known as Article
XIV. o unable to take the oath prescribed by
the law OF July :, 1862, they will not be allowed TO
discharge any official functions until the disabil-
ty 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, unless the said ninth Section sh Ill have
become imperative by the fact that the people
of the State have been declared by law to bc en-
titled to representation in the Congress of the
United States.
By Command of
Bvt. Mai. Gen. ED. r. s. CANDY,
LOUIS V. CAZIARC,
aide de Camp,
-ictg. ASST. 1GlR. GelI