New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-03-10

NEW ORLEANS i
1873, J59. and I60-To strike cut the
entire articles, and insert articles lay
and $50, majority report, as follows
ART. -. After the constitution
shall have been ratified, the president
of the convention, or, in case of his
death or absence, the chief justice of
the state, shall Immediately give notice
of the ratification thereof, and order
an election of all elective officers un-
der this constitution, to take place
within thirty days thereafter. Imme-
diately after the ratification of this
constitution the president of the con-
vention shall appoint one registrar in
each parish, except the parish of Or
leans, and one in each district of the
parish of Orleans, who shall, each in
his parish or district, appoint commits
sioners to hold the first election under
this constitution.
ART. -. The election thus ordered
shall be held at the place now pre-
scribed by law, and shall continue two
days; the place for voting to be kept
open from sunrise to sunset each day.
Returns shall be made in duplicate,
sworn to by the commissioners holding
the election, and forwarded within three
days thereafter to the registrar of the
parish or district. The registrar shall
Immediately forward one copy of said
returns to the president of the conyen-
ton, or in case of his death, to the
chief justice of the state, who shall
within -- days after the last day
of the said election make proclamation
of the result thereof. All officers thus
elected shall enter upon the discharge
of their respective duties on the Mon
day next succeeding the day upon
which the proclamation heretofore pro-
Vided for shall be made, and continue
in office until their successors shall be
indicted into office.
w. H. COOLEY,
w. r. CRANE,
Adopted.
Mr.. Wickliffe moved to fill the
blank in article 152, by inserting
Friday and Saturday, the seven
teenth and eighteenth days of April,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, at
the places now prescribed by law"
Adopted.
The following recommendation was
adopted:
Article 152---To strike out, first
line, the words "or rejection"
Recommended by the
COMMITTEE.
Article 152, as amended, was adopt
ed, as follows: ....
ART. 1856. The election for the
ratification of the constitution shall
be held on Friday and Saturday, the
seventeenth and eighteenth days of
April, eighteen hundred and sixty
eight, at the places now prescribed by
law, and the polls shall be kept open
from o'clock A. M. to z
o'clock P. M. At that election
all those in faysr of ratifying the con-
stitution shall have written or printed
on their ballots ''for the constitution"
and those opposed to ratifying the
constitution shall have written or
printed on their ballots against the
constitution"
Mr.. Blandin moved to lay the fol-
lowing recommendation on the table !;
Article 153---To strike out, fourth
line, all after the word ratification,
to the word cat" sixth line, and in
sert the following For members of
the general assembly, members of
congress, and for state officers to fill
the offices created by this constitution
in the articles under the title Of exeeu-
tive department"
R. NAPLES.
Adopted.
Mr.. Cooley moved to amend article
1853, by striking out the words, seventh
line, "under the reconstruction acts of
congress-"
Laid on the table.
Mr.. Packard moved to amend arti-
Gle 1853 by adding, eighth line, "Pro-
rlded, That any eiector shall be eligi-
BILE to any Office under any municipal
corporation in this state.'
Adopted.
Article 1853, as amended, was adopt
cd, as follows.
ART. 1853. In order to establish a
civil government as required by act of
congress, passed March %, 1867, an
election shall be held at the same time
and place at which the constitution is
submitted for ratification or rejection
for all state, judicial, parish, and munici-
pal officers for members of the general
assembly, and for congressional repre-
sentatives, at which election the cleo
tors who are qualified under the recon-
structiOn acts of congress shall vote,
and none others; Provided, That any
elector shall be eligible to any Office
under any municipal corporation in
this state.
Mr.. Wickliffe moved-to adopt the
following as an article of the constitu-
ton in the place of article 154.
ART. 154. At the election for the
ratification Of the constitution, and fol
officers of the civil government, as re-
quired by congress, all registered elect
ors may vote in any parish where
they have resided for ten days next
preceding said election, and az any
precinct IN the parish, upon presenta.
| ton Of their certificate Of registration,