New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-06
NOTICE.
OFFICE STATE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS,
New Orleans, November 3, 1870. !

OFFICE STATE REGISTRAR OF VOTERS,
New Orleans, November g. 1870.
YINHE ATTENTION OF ALL KEEPERS OF HO
l. tells restaurants bar-rooms, cotleehonses,
groceries etc. is hereby directed to the provisions
OF the following sections of AN act to regulate
the conduct and to maintain the freedom and
purity of elections" etc, approved March 49, 1870:
SECTION II. Be il further enacted, etc, That the
Supervisors OF Registration or Commissioners OF
Election shall, on the day OF election, close all p
drinking saloons. dram shops, groggeries or places
where liquor is sold by the glass bottle, situated
within a radius OF two miles of any poll or voting
place. And said Supervisors or Commissioners of
Election shall have the powert to call on any Sheriff,
constable or police officer to enforce this regula-
ton II such Sheriff, constable or police officer
shall refuse TO obey any order issued under the
authority of this section, the Commissioner or SUI
pervisOr giving the order shall summarily arrest
and ilnprison suchN Sheriff, constable police
officer, such imprisonment not to extend beyond
the hrlr OF closing the polls. And such Sheriff,
constable police officer refusing to obey such
order shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor in
Office and, upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by Imprisonment for term not to exceed
SIX months nor less than three months and by o
fine OF not than five hundred dollars ($500)S
nor less than handred dollars { $100)
SEC. ~. Be il further enacted, ETC., That. the
Governor, any justice Of the peace, alderman,
mayor, Judge, or any state officer who may be
present al, or have knowledge OF any drinking sa-
loon. dram shop GROCERY or place where liquor
is sod by the glass bottle, which is open con-
trary to the provisions of the foregoing section,
within the limits therein prescribed may, in writ
ing. order any police officer or constable TO seize
any such liquors, or any carriages or vessels con,
within said limits Tor the purpose of exposing such
Intoxicating liquors for sale.
SEC. 43. Be il further enacted etc, That the
constable police officer to WHOM such order
shall be delivered. shall thereupon seize all such
liquor carriages, vessels and the materials of any
such tent or booth, and hold and detain the sanis
until twenty-four hours after the close of the
election, then TO be delivered on demand to the
OWNER or the person from whom they We're taken,
on the payment OF ten dollars for the safe keeping
OF said articles.
SEC. H. Be it further enacted etc, That if these
he demanded m
sold at public auction by the police officer or con-
stable making the seizure and the proceeds of
such sale after deducting costs of sale and safe
keepi1g shall be paid to the owner of the articles
sold, or the person from whom the same were
taken.
In accordance with the above recited sections,
all persons keeping places where liquor is sold by
the glass bottle, in the parish of Orleans, are
hereby notified to close their places of business
MONDAY, November :, 1870, at five o'clock A. NJ,
and to keep them closed until hafpast six o'clock
P. NJ, under penalty OF the law which will be
rioiilv enforced 3. 2. BLANCHARD,
State Registrar Of Voters and Supervisor of Regis
FRAT on narsh of Orleans. nos 1t