The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-06-08
Mr.. KeIlogg's Enforcement Bill.

WHICH, senator heilOgg has introduced
in the Senate Of the United States,
with the object of preventing frauds in
election. The bill is entitled thus: TO
amend an act to enforce the rights of
the citizens of the United States, APP
proved February %, 1871.
SECTION I. BE IL enacted Ly tie Sen
ate and House of Representatives Of The
United States Of America, IN Congress
assembled, That section two of an act
approved February %, 1871, entitled
tsan act to amend an act approved
May 81, 1870, entitled an act to en-
force the rights of citizens of the Uni
ted States to vote in the several States
of the Union, and for other purposes
shall DE, and the same is hereby,
amended so as to read as follows, to-
wit:
SEC. =. That Whenever, III any coun
ty or parish, there shall be ten citi-
zens thereof in good standing who,
prior to any registration or revision
of registration of voters for an election
for Representatives or Delegates in the
Congress of the United States, or prior
to any election at which Reprcsen-
tative or Delegate in Congress is to be
voted for, shall make known in wri-
tAlSs ~ tHc JuuSc VI the court Oh
of tho United States for the judicial
district wherein any such county or
parish is situated, their desire to
have said registration, revision of reg
istration, or said election, or either of
all, guarded and scrutinized, it shall
be the duty Of the said judge Of tho cir
cult court, within not loss than ten
days prior to said registration, or revis-
ion of registration, if either such there
be, or, if no registration or revision of
registration be required, within not
less than ten days prior 10 said cleo
ton, to open the said circuit court at
the most convenient point in his judi
cial circuit; 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 circuit judge,
for each election district or voting pre-
cinct or poll i'll any county or parish
in the manner herein prescribed appli-
cation shall have been or shall be
made therefor, and to revoke, change,
or renew said appointments from time
to time, two citizens, who shall be res
idents and legal voters of any such
county or parish, and of different po-
litical parties, and able to read and
write the English language, and who
shall be known and designated as SUI
pervisors of the elcction; and the said
Circuit Court, when opened by the
said Circuit Judge, as required herein,
shall therefrom and thereafter, and up
to and including the day following the
day of any such election, be always
open for the transaction of business I'M
der this act, or acts amendatory hereof,
or to which this act is amendatory;
granted and conferred shall be exer-
time; and judge sitting at chambers
shall have the same powers and juris-
diction, including the power OF keep
ing order and Of Furnishing any con-
tempt Of his authority as when sitting
in court; provided, that no compensa-
ton shall be allowed to the supervisors
herein authorized to disappointed other
than such as are appointed in cities or
towns having twenty thousand inhabi-
tants or more, who shall receive such
compensation as is now or may hercaf-
ter be provided"
SEc.2. That i'll any judicial district in
and for Which the appointment Of chief
supervisor of elections, provided for in
section thirteen of the act hereby
amended has not heretofore been made,
~ SAsti pc TIC uuCy Oh TIC circuit Court
of the United States in and for any
such judicial district to, immediately
upon the passage of this act, name and
appoint such officer therein, in the
manner in said section thirteen pro-
vided; and wherever any such appoint
mcnt has heretofore been made as
provided therein by the Circuit Court
i'll said section named, it shall for all
purposes whatsoever be treated, deem
cd, taken, held to have been and to be
the appointment of the Circuit Court
of the United States, in and for the jul
dicial district in and for which such
appointment was made.
SEC. 3. That it shall be lawful for
each of the judges of the circuit courts
of the United States, under the condi-
tons provided in the third section of
the act hereby amended, to select, di-
rect and assign to the performance of
the whole or any portion of the duties
by this act or the acts
hereby amended, such one or more
of the judges of the district courts of
the United States within his circuit
as he may deem best.
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