New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-16

gress and to challenge any person oferlng
| to register; to attend at all times and
places when the names of registered voters
NAV be marked for challenge, and to cause
such names registered as they may deem
proper to be so marked; to make, when re
quired, the lists. or either of them, provided
| for in section thirteen of this act, and verify
| the same; and upon any occasion, and at
| any time when in attendance under the pro
visions of this act, to personally inspect and
scrutinize such registry, and for purposes OF
| Identification to affix their or his signature
to each and every page OF the original list,
and of each and every copy OF any such llst
| of registered voters, at such times, upon
each day when any name may or shall be
received, entered or registered, and in such
manner as Will, in their or his judgment,
| detect and expose the improper or wrongful
removal therefrom, or addition thereto, IN
| any way, of any name or names.
| SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That
| it shall also be the duty of the said super
visors of election, and they, and each of
| them, are hereby authorized and re-
| quired, to attend at all times and places for
holding elections of Representatives or Del
egates in Congress, and for counting the
| votes cast at said elections; to challenge any
vote offered by any person whose legal
qualifications the supervisors, or either OF
| them shall doubt; to be and remain where
| the ballot boxes are kept at all times after
the polls are open until each and every vote
cast at said time and place shall be counted,
the canvass of all votes polled be wholly
completed, and the proper and requisite GER
tificates or returns made, whether said GER
titicates or returns be required under any
law of the United States, or any State, ter
ritOrial, or municipal law, and to personally
inspect and scrutinize, from time to time,
and at all times on the day of election, the
manner in which the voting is done, and the
way and method in which the poll books,
registry-lists, and tallies or check-boOks,
whether the same are required by
any law of the United States, or any
State, territorial, or municipal law, are
kept and to the end that each candidate
for the office of Representative or Delegate
in Congress shall obtain the benefit of every
vote for him cast, the supervisors of election
are, and each of them is hereby required, in
their or his respective election districts or
voting precincts, to personally scrutiniZe,
count, and canvass each and every ballot
in their or his election district or voting
precinct cast, whatever may be the indorse-
ment on said ballot, or in whatever box it
may have been placed or be found; to make
and forward to the officer who, in accord
ance with the provisions of section thirteen
of this act, shall have been desig-
mated as the chief supervisor of the
judicial district in which the city
or town wherein they or he shall
serve shall be, such certificates and returns
of all said ballots as said officer may direct
and require, and to attach to the registry
list, and any and all copies thereof, and to
any certificate, statement or return, whether
the same, or any part or portion thereof, be
required by any law of the United States,
or of any State, territorial, or municipal law,
any statement touching the truth or accu-
racy of the registry, or the truth or fairness
of the election and canvass, which the said
supervisors of election, or either of them,
NAV desire to make or attach, or which
should properly and honestly be made or
attached, in order that the facts may be-
come known, any law of any State or Terri
tory to the contrary Notwithstanding.
SEC. 6. And be it further enacted. That
the better to enable the said supervisors of
election to discharge their duties. they are,
and each of them is hereby, authorized and
directed, in their or his respective election
districts or voting precincts, on the day or
days of registration, on the day or days
when registered voters may be marked to
be challenged, and on the day or days of
election, to take, occupy and remain in such
position or positions, from time to time,
whether before or behind the ballot boxes,
as will, in their judgment, best enable them
or him to see each person offering himself
for registration, or offering to vote, and
as will best conduce to their or his
scrutinizing the manner in which the
registration or voting is being conducted
and at the closing of the polls for the re-
ception of votes, they are. and each of them
is hereby required to place themselves or
himself in such position in relation to the
ballot-bOxes for the purpose of engaging in
the work of canvassing the ballots in said
boxes contained as will enable them or him
III a. II.
such canvass provd ed in this act, and shall
there remain until every duty in respect to
such canvass, certificates, returns and state
ments shall have been wholly completed,
any law of any State or Territory to the
contrary notwithstanding
SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That if
in any election district or voting precinct in
any city, town or village, for which there
shall have been appointed supervisors of
election for any election at which Repre-
sentative or Delegate in Congress shall be
voted for, the said supervisors of election,
or either of them, shall not be allowed to
exercise and discharge. fully and freely,
and without bribery, solicitation, inter
ference, hindrance, melestation, violence,
Or threats thereof. on the part of or from any
person or persons, each and every of the
duties, obligations and powers conferred
upon them by this act and the act hereby
amended. it shall be the duty of the super
visOrs of election, and each of them, to make
prompt report under oath, within ten days
after the day of election, to the officer who
in accordance with the provisions of section
thirteen of this act shall have been desig-
mated as the chief supervisor of the judicial
district in which the city or town wherein
they or he served shall be, of the manner
and means by which they were, or he
was, not SO allowed to fully and
freely exercise and discharge the duties
and obligations required and imposed by
this act. And upon receiving any such re-
port it shall be the duty OF the said chief
supervisor, acting both in such capacity
and officially as a commissioner of the
circuit court, to forthwith examine into all
the facts thereof; to subpoena and compel
the attendance before him of any witnesses;
administer oaths and take testimony in re-
spect to the charges made; and prior to the
assembling of Congress for which any such
Representative or Delegate was voted for,
to have filed with the Clerk of the House
of Representatives of the Congress of the
United States all the evidence by him
taken, all information by him obtained. and
all reports to him made.
SEC. s. And be it further enacted, That
whenever an election at which Representa-
tives or Delegates in Congress are to be
chosen shall be held i'll any city or town of
twenty thousand inhabitants or inward the
marshal of the United States for the district
in which said city or town is situated shall
have power, and it shall be his duty. on the
application, in writing of at least two citi-
zens residing IN any such city or town, to APP
point special deputy marshalS, whose duty
1t shall be, when required as provided in this
act 10 ana ana assist the supervisors of cleo
ton IN the Verltication of any list of persons
made under the Drovisions Of +b;s a. OF who