New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-10-30
mo. 108,
AN ACT
to Presidential Electors

Relative to Presidential Electors.
SECTION l. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Represen tatives of the State
OF Louisiana in General Assembly convened,
That IN every year in which an election is
10 be held for electors Of President and Vice
President of the United States, such election
shall be held on Tuesday next after the first
Monday in the month of November in such
year, in accordance with an act of the Con-
gress of the United States, approved January
49, 1916, entitled can act to establish uni
form time for holding elections for electors
OF President and Vice President in all of
the States OF the Union and such elections
shall be held and conducted in the manner
and form provided by law for general State
elections.
SEC 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That
every qualified voter in the State shall vote
for seven persons, as follows: Two persons
shall be selected from the State at large and
each congressional District in this
State; and in case any ticket shall contain
two or more names of persons residing in
the same District Except the two chosen
from the State at large), the first of such
names only shall be considered as duly
voted for.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That
no person shall be an electsr who is not
a qualified voter in the District for which
he is chosen, or in case of being selected for
the State at large, then of some parish of
the State.
SEC. L. Be it further enacted, etc., That
Immediately after the receipt of q return
from each parish, or on the fourth Monday
of November, if the returns should not
sooner arrive, the Governor, in presence of
the Secretary of State, the Attorney Gene.
raj. District Judge of the District in which
the seat ofgovornmentm may be established, or
any two OF them, shall examine the returns
and ascertain therefrom the seven persons
who have been duly elected electors.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That
one OF the returns from each parish, in.
dorsed by the Governor, shall be placed
on file and preserved among the archives of
the Secretary of State.
SEC. 6, Be it further enacted, ETC., That
the names of the persons elected, together
with copy of the returns from the several
parishes, shall forthwith be published in the
newspaper or papers in which the laws of
the State may be directed to be published.
SEC. I. Be it further enacted, etc., That
the electors shall meet at the seat of govern.
ment on the day appointed for their meeting
by the act of Congress (the first Wednesday
in December), and shall then and there pro-
coed to execute the duties and services en-.
Joined upon them by the Constitution of
the United States in the manner therein
prescribe9.'
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That
if any one or more of the electors chosen by
the people shall fail from any cause what.
ever to attend at the appointed place at the
hour of four P. NJ, of the day prescribed for
their meeting, it shall be the duty of the
other electors Immediately to proceed by
ballot to supply such vacancy or vacancies.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, ETC., That
each elector shall receive the same daily
compensation and allowance which at that
time shall be allowed by law to the members
of the General Assembly, to be paid by the
Treasurer of the State on warrants signed
by the Governor.
SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, ETC.. That
all laws conflicting herewith be and the
sameltre hereby repealed that this act shall
ke effect ON and after its passage.
(Signed) CHAS. W. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(Signed) OSCAR j. DUNN,
Lieutenant Governor aid President of the
Senate.
Approved October 30 1868.
(Signed) H. G. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State Of Louisiana.
A true copy:
GEO. f. BOvEE,
Secretary of State.