The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-10-23

! Sec. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, That eacl
| supervisor OF registration and assistant super
| visor of registration shall receive as compensa
| tiOn 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 shat
| complete his statement OF election. Each super
| visor and assistant supervisor of registration
| shall make out specific account for his com
! pensatiOn, sworn to and subscribed by him. tC
| which shall be appended an authenticated copy
| of his appointment; said account shall be ex
| amncd and If correct approved by the State
registrar OF voters and the Governor and tho
| treasurer OF each parish, and in 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.
Sec 1G. Be it further enacted. ETC. That each
supervisor and assistant supervisor of registra
tlOn shall have two clerks who shall each re-
ctive three and Onc-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 be paid in
the same manner as is lsprovided for the payment
of supervisors and assistant supervisors Of reg
istratiOn by this act.
Sec. II. Bet it further enacted. etc, That any
supervisor or assistant supervisor nf rGgiStl;t-
tiOn who shall swear to false account shall be
deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction
thereof snail be subject to all the pansand pen
altles by law provided for perjury.
Sec. 49, Be it further enacted, etc. That be-
tore each and every parish city, town OF ward
election, other than the general election, the S-
pervisOr of registration, for the parish in 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
hed electors who may have become such since
the last revision OF the registration, and by
striking thercfrOm the names of all persons who
may have ceased to he qualified electors of such
parish; and such registration shall be conducted
i'll the same manner, and subject to tho same
provisions as are herein laid down for registra-
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 III each
parish except tho parish of Orleans, the offices
OF registration shall be open, commencing TWEEN
ty days before such election. All offices of reg
lStratlOn shall close nine days before any clcc-
ton The supervisors of registration in each
parish shall give nOtce1by publication to all vO-
ters, who desire to be registered TO come forward
and cause the same to be done, which notice,
giving the hour and place of appearing, may be
published III newspaper in the parish, if there
be one printed and shall he posted at as many
public places in the parish asis reasonably prac-
ticable, and i'll New Orleans to be continuously
published i'll English i'll at least two daily news
papers, and in 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.
Sec. 49, Be II further enacted, etc, That the
respective supervisors and assistant supervisors
of registration shall each have tho power to ad-
minister oaths to any person claiming the right
to be registered, or in regard to any other mat
ter or thing required to he dono 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 it further enacted. etc, That every
person Of foreign birth claiming a right to be
SHALL i'll addition to the proof Of resi-
denCe, prove that he has been naturaliZed, con-
formally to the laws of the United States and
as evidence thereof he shall produce a 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 in the said certifi-
cate, and the person 10 whom ii 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
a natIralized 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 registr:i-
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
the number and precinct of the ward or parish
and the date OF registry and add thereto his 0tfi
cial signature.
Sec q. 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 a line in red |
nix through the same; that the name of no per- |
son shall be stricken from the registration books
n his absence, except upon the testimony of at |
east two respectable citizens, qualified electors
II the parish, whose names appear upon the /
said registration books, to be given under oath |
Jr affirmation, that such person is not resident
If the precinct or parish, or is otherwise dis |
qualified by law from voting at said election |
ind the said supervisor of registration shall also
examine and revise the books of registration of |
lis parish or ward of the city of New Orleans |
and shall strike therefrOm the names of all per-
IONS who are not residing in the parish or pre- |
,inct on the ninth day before the election, and |
jhe names remaining on said books of registra- |
ion as corrected by the supervisor of registra- |
ion and assistant supervisor OF registration, as |
aforesaid, shall constitute the registry of citizens
qualified to vote in the said parish or ward at |
he next election.
aid book of registration shall be the only cvi- |
lence that persons whose names are found there
II have resided for ten days Immediately pre-
,edng the said election in the said parish or |
ward.
Sec. %. Be it further enacted, etc. That the |
registration of the voters of this State shall be |
;losed nine days previous to any election; and |
t shall be the duty of the supervisor of regis
ration, in every parish in this State, to make /
'ut and furnish certified copies, written or print
ID, of the lists OF the registered voters to the |
of election of each precinct or
polling place, to be used at the election or cleo
ions to he held therein, and failure Of the SUI
,erviser or assistant supervisor of registration
% furnish such copies of the list of registered
'oters before the hour of opening the polls shall
ubject such delinquent supervisors or assistant |
supervisors of registration to q fine of not less
han one hundred, nor more than five hundred
l0lars, to be recovered for the use of the parish
n which the failure to perform the duty occur
ed, tO be sued for in the name of the parish; and
t shall be the duty OF the district attorney pro
empOre of such parish to institute any suit,
any such delinquency shall be brought
o his knowledge by any commissioner of elec-
ion, or when 1t is known to himself.
Sec. 81 Be it further enacted. etc, That the
supervisor of registration of each parish shall |
,cep his office, except in the parish of Orleans
It the courthouse of the parish, and may es-
ablish such places for the registration of voters
tler than the courthouse, not less than three
II more than twelve, as may be necessary to
nable electors to register with as little incon-
'enence as possible and, iii all cases publica-
ion of the office OF registration, rs selected by
he supervisor or assistant supervisor of regis
ration, shall be made for thirty days in the
tffcial journal OF the parish. In the parishes
f Orleans and Jefferson, the supervisor or as |
istant supervisor of registration shall estah-
sh offices at such places as will facilitate the
egistering of voters as far as possible The
uperV1Sor or assistant supervisor OF reglstra-
ion for each parish or precinct, shall require
very person. before he is registered as a voter,
0 take and subscribe the following affidavit.
nd the supervisor or assistant supervisor of |
egistratton is hereby authorized to administer
aid oath: ~ w.. . ...
I, -, do solemnly swear Tor affirm, as the
ase may bel, that I am twenty-One years of
ge, was born Tor naturaized, as the case may
e} in the United States, and am subject to the
Jurisdiction thereof, and have been a resident
+ the State of Louisiana since the - day of
--, and a resident of this parish since the
--- day of -, and that I am not disfran-
hised for any Of the causes stated in article