New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-06-13

The Text OF the Anne ndment as II Flmsl
Passed.


The Text or the Amendment as II FlMslly
Passed.
The following is the election amendment tC
the sundry civil appropriation bill as it passed
both houses and became law:
That whenever, in any county or parish, in
any Congressional district, there shall be ten
citizens thereof of good standing who, prior
to any registration of voters for an election
for Representatives in Congress, or prior to
any election at which a Representative in
Congress is to be voted for, shall make known
the United States for the district wherein such
county or parish is situate, their desire to
have said registration or election both guard
ed and scrutinized, it shall be the duty of the
said Judge of the circuit court, within not less
than ten days prior to said registration OF
election, as the case may be, to open the said
court at the most convenient point in said
district and the said court, when so opened
by said Judge, shall proceed to appoint and
commission, from day to day, and from time
to time, and under the hand of the said Judge,
and under the seal of said court, for such
election district or voting precinct in said
Congressional district, as shall, in the mah-
ner herein prescribed, have been applied for,
and to revoke, change, or renew said appoint
ment from time to time, two citizens, residents
of said election district or voting precinct in
said county or parish, who shall be of differ
ent political parties, and able to read and
write the English language, and who shall be
known and designated as supervisors of cleo
ton; and the said court, when opened by the
said Judge as reduired herein, shall, there
from and thereafter, and up to and including
the day following the day of the election, be
always open for the transaction Of business
under this act and the powers and jurisdic-
ton hereby granted and conferred shall be
exercised, as we'll in vacation as in term time,
and a judge, sitting at chambers, shall have
the same powers and jurisdiction, including
the power of keeping order and of Furnishing
any contempt of his authority, as when sit
ting in the court: Proridea, That no COM
pensation shall be allowed to the supervisors
herein authorized to be appointed except
those appointed in cities or towns of twenty
thousand or more inhabitants. And no per-
son shall be appointed under this act as SUI
pervisor of election who is not at the time
of his appointment a qualified voter of the
county, parish, election-dstrict, or voting
precinct for which he is appointed. And no
person shah be appointed deputy marshal
under the act of which this is amendatOry,
who is not qualified voter, at the time OF
his appointment, in the county, parish, dis
trict, or precinct in which his duties are to be
performed. And section thirteen of the act
of which this is an amendment shall be con-
strued to authorize and require the circuit
courts of the United States in said section
mentioned to name and appoint, as soon as
may be after the passage of this act, the COM
missioners provided for in said section, in all
cases in which such appointments have not
already been made in conformity Herewith
And the third section of the act to which this
is an amendment shall be taken and con.
| strued to authorize each of the judges of the
| circuit courts of the United States to desig
nate one or more of the judges of the district
| courts within his circuit to discharge the du
| ties arising under this act or the act to which
this is an amendment. And the words "any
person" in section four of the act of May 81
1870, shall be held to include any officer o.
other person having powers or duties of al
official character under this act or the act tt
| which this is an amendment: PrOridcd, Tha
nothing in this section shall be so construed
as to authorize the appointment of any mar
| shals or deputy marshals in addition to those
heretofore authorized by law.
| And prorided further, That the supervisor
herein provided for shall have no power o.
authority to make arrests or to perform Othe
duties than to be in the immediate presence
of the officers holding the elections, and t.
witness all their proceedings, including thu
counting Of the votes and the making return
thereof. And so much of said sum hereil
appropriated as may be necessary for SAT-
supplemental and amendatOry provisions i
hereby appropriated from and after the pas
sage Of this act.