The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-28
THE REGISTRATION LAW.

his signature to what is called IAN act to pro
vide for the revision and correction of tn.
lists of registered voters of the State, - bu
which should be named IAN act to authorize
Kellogg to disfranchise many of the quail
fed voters Of Louisiana he may thinl
proper, to issue as many bogus voting papers
as he deems necessary to carry the elections
to deprive every legal voter whose rights art
blotted out from seeking redress through the
courts, and to create an election fund of ovel
one million of dollars to be used by hin
and his followers in perpetuatlng their i'll
gotten power over the white and taxpayine
elements of the population OF this State
Strong and even preposterous as this descrp-
ton Of the browning infamy of Louisiana
Radicalism may appear, we propose to show,
by simply reproducing few of the monstrous
provisions of that act, that We are rather I'M
derstating the case, and that, should the peo-
pie allow this stupendous scheme to reduce
them to the condition of helots to be carried
into effect, they will henceforth be unworthy
to bear the name Of freemen.
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appoint Tor two years a State registrar OF
votes, with salary of $4,000 per annum, who
shall appoint chief clerk at $500 and an
assistant clerk at $1,000 per annum. He shall
rent an Office in the city of New Orleans at a
rate not to exceed $50 month, and as many
other offices in the city of New Orleans as he
shall think proper, the rent wherefor shall
be paid by the city of New Orleans upon the
simple certificate of the registrar. He shall
also cause to be furnished, at the expense of the
State ''all books, blanks, papers, stationery
etc. mark this significant ct cetero-the ac-
counts for the same to be also paid whenever
approved by the Governor. Two months pre-
vious to every general election, the Governor
shall also appoint in each parish Of the State
one supervisor of registration and one assis-
tant supervisor, all Of whose alleged expenses
for rent, clerk hire, books, stationery, ETC.,
| Expenses of transportation from one place to
another in every parish being also included)'
are also to be paid without question by each
parish treasurer, upon the unsupported pro-
duction Of the supervisors account. Sixty
days before an election, assistant supervisors
tor each ward of New Orleans shall also be
appointed with the same unlimited powers as
to rent, clerk hire, and expenses included I'M
der the elastic terms of transportation, and
ct ceterui. Every city and parish supervisor
shall also receive daily compensation of five
dollars from the day she shall open his office
until the time he shall complete his state
ment of election" Each supervisor and assist
ant supervisor shall have two clerks, who
shall receive three dollars and a halt
per diem, to be paid for the same number OF
days as the supervisors and their assistants.
Publication is to be made of the doings of all
these parties in at least one paper in every
parish, and in New Orleans in two English
newspapers, (the Republican and the Times, OF
course,) and in one French and one German
paper, the printing bills to be paid on the
vouchers OF the State Registrar, sat the same
rates as are provided by law for the publica-
ton Of the laws of the State
All naturalzed citizens, in addition to their
naturalization certificates are to bring two
witnesses to prove their identity and the su-
pervisors, after propounding as many ques-
tons they may think proper to the said
natur liked citizens, shall have the right of |
refusing to register their names as voters. ali
afidavits made by them or their witnesses to
the contrary Notwithstanding
Section 81 enacts that ssthe decision of any
supervisor assistant supervisor of registra-
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ton to the registry, and on all questions rela-
tive to the registry Of votes, shall be final
No parish or district judge shall interfere by
writ of injunction or mandamus, or other
order of court, to compel any supervisor Or
assistant supervisor of registration to register,
or prohibit him from registering any person."
Having constituted this army of supervisors,
assistant supervisors and clerks the sole dis
tributors of the right of suffrage in Louisiana,
this so-called law proceeds to vest any of
any person for disor lerly conduct before him
N his office" (Section 32.)
The browning of the edifce is section 80,
which makes it {" the duty of the supervisors
If registration in every parish of this State to
appoint one or more suitable persons to attend
It each poll or voting place, who shall have
he power Of constables during the time of
election" any one resisting or opposing such
PERSONS in the discharge of their duty" id
st, the making arrests, counting the votes,
keeping order at the polls, carrying the
'oxes to and from the commissioners of cleo
ions, etc., shall be punished by fine and i'm
'risonment the said constables whose num-
'er is unAimited-to receive a per diem of five
dollars g for time not exceeding three days. J.
0 be paid by the parish in the same manner
nd upon the same vouchers as is prescribed
Or the payment Of the clerks of supervisors or
ssistant supervisors of registration of the h
arish."
Now, if any man of sense will 'sread pom s
er and inwardly digest the provisions above