The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-09-18

the opening until the close thereof.
Sec. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, That eacl
supervisor OF registration and assistant super
visor of registration shall receive as compensii
ton tive dollars per day for each day he Slal
discharge the duties of his office, from the tim
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
pelEsatiOn, sworn to and subscribed by him, t.
which shall he appended All authenticated corH
OF his appointment; said account shall be eX
amined and if correct approved by the Stat'
registrar OF voters and the Governor and tht
treasurer of each parish, and i'll the parish o
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 16. 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 tho
parish Or ward may receive pay, to he paid in
the same manner as isprOvided for the payment
of supervisors and assistant supervisors of reg
istratiOn by this act.
See. II. Bet it further enacted, etc, That any
supervisor or assistant supervisor of registra
ton who shall swear to Il false account shall be
deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction
thereof shall be subject to all the pains and pen
atieS by law provided for perjury.
fore each and every parish, city. town or ward
election other than the general election, the sill
pervisOr 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 therefrnm the names of all persons who
may have ceased TO be qualified electors of such
parish; and such registration shall be conducted
i'll 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. In the city of New Orleans the offices of
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 TWEEN
ty days before such election. All offices of reg
iStratiQn shall close nine days. before any clec-
tiOn. The supervisors of registration i'll each
parish shall give notice by publication to all VO-
ters, who desire to be registered to come forward
and cause the same to be done, which notice,
giving the honr and place of appearing, may be
in a newspaper i'll the parish. if there
be one printed, and shall be posted at as many
public places in the parish asis reasonably prac-
ticable, and in New Orleans to be continuously
published in English in 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. IT,
Sec. 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 he registered, or in 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. 90. Beitfhrther enacted, etc, That every
person OF foreign birth claiming right to be
registered shall, in addition to the proof of resi-
lence, prove that he has been naturalized, con
fOl1ndbly to the laws of the United States and
rs evidence thereof he shall produce certificate
Df 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
hat he is the person named in the said ccrtifi-
3ate, and the person to whom it was issued, and
shall further answer upon oath to the satsfac-
ion of the supervisor or assistant supervisor of
'egistratlon before whom the said certificate
nay be produced, when and where he was born
md when and where he obtained the certificate,
md from whom; and the said certificate shall
lOt be evidence that the person presenting it is
natu1alized citizen unless his answers be con-
,istent with the facts certified and the proof of
lis 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-
ion, but not otherwise, he shall register the
lame of the claimant on the registration book
md shall stamp or write on the said certificate
# naturalization the word registered" with
he number and precinct of the ward or parish
md the date OF registry and add thereto his Off
,ial signature. 49,. -- ~.
Sec. d. Be it further enacted, etc, That the
supervisor Of registration for each parish shall
,arefully examine the registration books and
I, upon due inquiry and investigation, he shall
ind the name or names of any person or persons
herein not entitled to vote in his parish at the
lext election, he shall strike the name of every
fhAPGfrOm a in
nk through the same; that the name of no per-
on shall he stricken from the registratonb books
n his absence, except upon the testimony of at
east two respectable citizens, qualified electors
# the parish, whose names appear upon the
aid registration books, to be given under oath
IT affirmation, that such person is not @ resident
i the precinct or parish, or is otherwise dis
ualified by law from voting at said election
nd the said supervisor Of registration shall also
xamine and revise the books of registration of
lis parish or ward of the city of New Orleans,
nd shall strike thereffOm the names of all per-
ons who are not resding.in in the parish or pre-
met on the ninth day before the election, and
he names remaining on said books of registra-
ion, as corrected by the supefyisor of registra-
ion and assistant supervisor of registration, as
foresaid, shall constitute the registry of citizens
naIiffed to vote In the said parish or ward at
he next election. E=.E z.-E s.-
Sec. %. Be it further enacted, etc, That the
aid book of registration shall be the only evi-
ence that persons whose names are found there
d have resided for ten days Immediately pre-
eding the said election in the said parish or
Fard. .r.ez...s-
Sec. 80 Be it further enacted, etc, That the
egistration of the voters of this State shall be
loSed nine days previous to any election; and
shall be the duty OF the supervisor of regis
ration, III every parrish in this State, to make
ut and furnish certified copies, written or print
d, of the lists of the registered voters to the
of election of each precinct or
olling place, to be used at the election or cleo
ions to be held therein, and failure of the SUI
eryisOr or assistant supervisor of registration
0 furnish such copies of the list of registered
Oters before the hour of opening the poils shall
ubject such delinquent supervisors OF assistant
upervis0rs of registration to q fine of not less
han one hundred, nor more than five hundred
o1laTs, to be recovered for the use of the parish
i which the failure to perform the duty occur
ed, to be sued for in the name of the parish; and
shall be the dirty of the district attorney pro
empore of such parish to institute any suit
7heneyer any such delinquency shall be brought
0 his knowledge by any commissioner of cleo
ion, or when 1t is known to himself.
See. d Be it further enacted, etc, That the
uperVfs0r Of registration of each parish shall
eep his office, except IN the parish of Orleans,
t the courthouse of the parish, and may es-
ther than the courthouse, not less than three
7 more than twelve, as may be necessary to
nable electors TO register with as little incon-
enience as possible, and, in all cases T1ublica-
ion of the office of registration, as selected by
he supervisor or assistant supervisor of regis
ration, shall be made for thirty. days i'll the
ficial journal of the parish In the parishes
Orleans and Jefferson, the supervisor or as
istant supervisor of registration shall estab=
sh offices at such places as will facilitate the
egistering of voters as far as possible The
upervisor or assistant supervisor of registra-
ion for each parish or precinct, shall require
very person, before he is registered as Il voter,
0 take and subscribe the following affidavit,
nd the supervisor or assistant supervisor of
egistration is hereby authorized to administer
aid oath:
/, do SOlemnly swear Tor affirm, as the
ge. was born for naturalized, as the case may
e) i'm the United States, and am subject to the
lrisdietion thereof, and have been resident
the State of Louisiana since the - day of
-, and a resident of this parish since the
- day of -----, and that / am not disfran-
hised for any Of the causes stated in article