The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-04

,YASeEY. ", e Percy; coroner,
Ephraim Honeycutt; treasurer, ] G Hyatt !:
county clerk of superior court, A J Roberts;
( register Of deeds, David Mechanics; survey
or J. r Ncifl commissioners, Wade Hamp-
ton, Eeander Ray, John Ray, Kilpat-
rick, r N Atkins, Jr. '''s
I'r Y ADIKlIIN. Sheriff, George Nicks; coroner,
| w II Branon; treasurer, Benjamin Mackie;
I county clerk of superior court, James A
Martin; register of deeds, S L Tulbert; sur
veyor, Issac N Vestal commissioners, Ii .
! Felts Aquilla Spcer, John Algood, w w
Patterson, A Jones. ~ =.
!eeuenth, That the following named persons
have received majority OF the votes cast
by the qualified electors of their respective
Congressional Districts, as established by an
ordinance of the Convention adopted on the
Sth 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 Congressional District.--David
Heaton.
Third Congressional District.-Oliver Fl
Dockery.
Fourth Congressional District.-John T
I Deweese. t-.r.-..
Fifth Congressional District.-Israel G
Lash 81. -.-H- wa
Sixth Congressional District.-Nathanicl
| Boyden. :.rH = I--t -...r
Seventh Congressional observation-disclosures
4 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 ransmisslon, 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
ofPosts 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. .H ..i.- .
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 Chc Constitution by the Con-
gress ofthc United States if it fall not on Sun
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 ~
The term of office of all officers of the Judi
|
of this Constitution by the Congress of the Uni
ted States" (Articlc ", Section 81
| The county officers provided for and elected
"shal 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, be no 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, shcritfs coro
\ 4f.aG- nh0l.Ir
active ADMINISTRATION duties, with the care of
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 qualified, duly Install
ed in the offices to which they have been elected
and rs above prescribed.
Under the requirements of the ninth Section
of the law OF July 23, 1867, amendatory of the
law of March ?, 1867, &" to provide for the more
efficient government OF the rebel States,' the of
cers elect, both of the legislative aud 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 i'll 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-
sttution of the United States, known as Article
XIV. or are unable to take the oath prescribed by
the law OF July2, 1862 they will not be allowed to
discharge any official functions until the disabl-
ity has been removed by the Congress of the
United States, or unless the oath of Office
quired by the ninth Section of the aboyecited
law hay been al ed hv
law, or unless the said ninth Section shall 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,
aide de- Camp,
dct1 ASsf. 4dn GenL