The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-10-02

| Sec. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, That eacl
| supervisor of registration and assistant super
| visor OF registration shall receive as cOmpenSa
| ton five dollars per day for each day he shal
discharge the duties of his office, from the time
he shall open his Office until the time he shal
! complete his statement of election. Each super
| visor and assistant supervisor Of registration
shall make out a specific account for his com
| pensatiOn, sworn to and subscribed by him. Il
which shall he appended an authenticated copy
OF his appointment; said account shall be cN
amlncd and II correct approved by the State
registrar OF voters and the Governor and the
| treasurer OF each parish and i'll the parish OF
Orleans the Administrator of Finance shall pay
the same in cash upon presentation; provided
that no supervisor of registration shall receive
any compensation for his services until he has
complied with all the provisions of this act.
See IL. Be it further enacted, etc, That eaCl
supervisor and assistant supervisor of registra
ton shall have two clerks, who shall each re-
ceive three and one-half dollars per day for the
time they are actually employed not to exceed
the length of time for which the supervisor OF
the assistant supervisor OF registration for the
parish or ward may receive pay, to he paid i'll
the same manner as isprOvded for the payment
Of supervisors and assistant supervisors of reg
iStratlOn by this act.
See. II. Bet it further enacted, etc, That any
supervisor or assistant supervisor Of registra-
ton who shall swear to false account shall be
deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to all the pains and pen
alties by law provided for perjury.
Sec. 49, Be it further enacted, etc, That be-
fore each and every parish, city, town or ward
election other than the general election the SUI
perVlsOr OF registration, for the parish i'll which
such election shall be held, shall open his office
for the purpose OF revising the list of registered
voters, by adding thereto the names of all quail
fed electors who may have become such since
the last. revision of the registration, and by
striking therefrOm the names of all persons who
may have ceased to be qualified electors of such
parish; and such registration shall be conducted
III the same manner, and subject to the same
provisions as are herein laid down for regstra-
ton before the general election, except as to the
time. III the city of New Orleans the offices Of
registration shall be open fifty days. cOmmenc-
ing sixty days before any such election. In each
parish, except the parish of Orleans the offices
of registration shall be open, commencing twen-
ty days before such election. All offices of reg
fstration shall close nine days before any elec-
tiOn. The supervisors OF registration in each
parish shall give notice by publication to all vO-
tcrs who desire to be registered to come forward
and cause tile same to be done, which notice,
giving the hour and place OF appearing, may be
published i'll Il newspaper in the parish, if there
be one printed, and shall be posted at as many
public places i'll the parish asis reasonably prac-
ticable, and i'll New Orleans to be continuously
published in English in at least two daily news
papers, and i'll one each in the French and Ger
man language. All accounts for such printing
shall be paid IN the same manner and at the
same rates as Are provided for the publication
of the laws OF the State, upon the approval OF
the State registrar of voters.
See. 10. Be it further enacted, etc, That the
respective supervisors and assistant supervisors
OF registration shall each have the power to ad-
minister Oaths to any person claiming the right
to be registered, or i'll regard to any other mat
ter or thing required to be done or inquired into
by any of said officers under this act and any
willful false swearing by any person in relation
to any matter, or thing concerning which they
shall be interrOgated by any of said officers shall
be punished as perjury.
Sec. 20. Be itfurther enacted, etc, That every
person of foreign birth claiming a right to be
registered SHALL in addition TO tile proof of resi-
dence, prove that he has been natiIralizcd con-
FORMALLY laws
as evidence thereof he shall produce q certificate
OF naturalization under the seal OF the court in
which naturalization took place, duly attested
by the clerk Of said court, in his own proper
hand writing, and shall prove by the oath of
two qualified electors Of the election precinct
that he Is the person named i'll the said eertiti-
cate, and the person to whom it was issued, and
shall further answer upon oath to the Satisfac-
ton of the supervisor or assistant supervisor of
registration before whom the said certificate
may he produced, when and where he was born
and when and where he obtained the certificate
and from whom; and the said certificate shall
not be evidence that the person presenting it is
Il natuPallZed citizen unless his answers be con-
SiStent with the facts certified and the proof OF
his identity be satisfactory to the supervisor or
assistant supervisor of registration, and upon
such proof being made to the satisfaction of the
supervisor or assistant supervisor OF registra-
ton, but not otherwise, he shall register the
name of the claimant on the registration book,
and shall stamp or write on the said certificate
of naturalization the word "registered,' with
and the date of registry and add thereto his off
Ciat signature. 7
Sec. d. Be it further enacted, etc. That the
supervisor of registration for each parish shall
carefully examine the registration books, and
if, upon due inquiry and investigation, he shall
find the name or names of any person or persons
therein not entitled to vote in his parish at the
next election, he shall strike the name of every
such person therefrOm by drawing line in red
ink through the same; that the name of no per-
son shall be stricken from the registration books
hS
least two respectable citizens qualified electors
of the parish, whose names appear upon the
said registration books, to be given under oath
or affirmation, that such person is not a resident
of the precinct or parish, or is otherwise dis
qualified by law from voting at said election
and the said supervisor of registration shall also
examine and revise the books of registration of
his parish or ward Of the city Of New Orleans,
and shall strike therefrom the names of all per-
sons who are not residing in the parish or pre-
cinot on the ninth day before the election, and
the names remaining on said books OF registra-
ton, as corrected by the supervisor Of registra-
ton and assistant supervisor of registration, as
aforesaid shall constitute the registry of citizens
qualified to vote in the said parish on ward ut
the next election. .sr.tr..-.
Sec. %. Be it further enacted, etc, That the
said book of registration shall be the only evi-
dence that persons whose names are found there
in have resided for ten days immediately pre-
ceding the said election III the said parish or
ward. 5ssE@- .-@ &<#@-s@E Es
Sec %. Be it further enacted etc, That the
Of the voters of this State shall be
closed nine days previous to any election; and
it shall be the duty of the supervisor of regis
tratiOn, in every parish in this State to make
out and furnish certified copies written or print
ed, OF the lists of the registered voters to the
commissioners Of election Of each precinct or
polling place, to be used at the election or cleo
ti0ns to be held therein, and failure of the SUI,
pervisOr or assistant supervisor of registration
to furnish such copies of the list of registered
voters before the hour of opening the polls, shall
subject such delinquent supervisors or assistant
of registration to fine of not less
than one hundred, nor more than five hundred
dollars, to be recovered for the of tine parish
i'll which the failure to perform the duty occur
red, to be sued for IN the name of the parish; and
it shall be the duty of the district attorney pro
tempore of such parish to institute any suit,
any such delinquency shall be brought
to his knowledge by any commissioner of elec-
ton, or when it is known to himself.
Sec "a Be it further enacted, ETC., That the
supervisor of registration of each parish shall
keep his office, except in the parish of Orleans,
at the courthouse of the parish, and may es-
tablsh such places for the registration of voters
other than the courthouse, not less than three
or more than twelve, as may be necessary to
enable electors to register with as little incor-
ventence as possible, and, i'll all cases publica-
ton of the Office of registration as selected by
the supervisor or assistant supervisor of regis
tration- shall be made for thirty days in the
official journal of the parish. In the parishes
of Orleans and Jefferson, the supervisor or as
sstant supervisor of registration shall estab-
llsh offices at such places as will facilitate the
OF voters as far as possible. The
supervisor or assistant supervisor of registra-
ton for each parish or precinct, shall require
every person, before he is registered as voter,
to take and subscribe the following affidavit,
and the supervisor or assistant supervisor of
is hereby authorized to administer
said oath
II, do solemnly swear TOR affirm, as the
case may bel, that I am twenty-one years of
age, was born for nsturalized, as the case may
bel In the United States, and am subject to the
jurisdiction thereof, and have been resident
of the State of Louisiana since the - day of
--, and resident of this parish since the
- day of -, and that I am not disfrall-
chised for any of the causes stated in article
ninety mine of the constitution of this State