New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-04
NOTICE.
OFFICR STATE REGISTRAR or VOTERS,
New Orleans, November 3, 1870.

OFFIcB STATE REGISTRAR or VOTERS,
New Orleans, November 3, 1870.
VTNHE ATTENTION OF ALL KEEPERS OF HO-
l. tells restaurants, bar-roons eoheehouses,
groceries etc is hereby directed TO the provisions
OF the following sections of An act to regulate
the conduct and to maintain the freedom ana
purity of elections, etc, approved March l6, 1910:
SECTION Il. Be it further enacted, etc. That the
Supervisors of Registration or Commissioners of
Election shall, on the day OF election close au
drinking saloons, dram shops, groggeres or places
within radius OF two miles of any poll or voting
place. And said Supervisors or Commissioners OF
Election shall have the power to call any sheriff.
constable or police officer TO enforce this regui2-
ton. II such Sheriff constable or police officer
shall refuse 70 obey any order issued under tho
authority of this section the Commissioner or Su-
pervisor giving the order shall summarly arrest
and inlprison such Sheriff, constable or police
officer, such imprisonment not TO extend beyond
the hour of closing the polls. And such Sheriff,
constable police officer so refusing to obey such
order shall be deemed guilty of a nisds,neanor in
office, and. upon conviction thereof shall be pun
ished by imprisonment for o term not to exceed
six months, nor less than three months. and by D
fine Of more than fl We hundred dollars ($500),
nor less than one handred dollars Is 1907.
SKC. y. Be it further enacted, etc., That the
Governor, any justice of the peace, alderman,
mayor, judge, any State officer who may no
present at or have knowledge of any drinking s2-
loon dram shop, GROCERY; or place where hqnor
is sold by the glass or bottle, which il open con-
trary TO the provisions of the foregoin. 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-
tanning the same, or any booths or tents erected
within said limits for the purpose of exposing such
intoxicating liquors for SALE
SEC. 43. Be it further enacted, etc. That tho
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 same
until twentytour hours after the close of the
election, then to be delivered demand to the
owner or the person from whom they taken,
on the payment of dollars for the safe keeping
OF said articles
SEC. a. Be it further enacted. etc, That il these
effects be not thus demanded, the shall be
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
keeping, shall be paid to the owner of the articles
sold, the person from whom the were
taken.
In accordance with the above recited sections,
all persons keeping places where liquor is sold by
the glass or bottle, in the parish of Orleans, arc
hereby notified to close their places of business
MONDAY, November :, 1876 at five O'Clock A. NJ. !,
and to keep them closed until halfpast six o'clock
P. NJ, under penalty of the law, which will ba
rigdly enforced. 3. p. BLANCHARD
State Registrar of Voters, and Supervisor of Regis
traitor. parish of Orleans. nos 1t