The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-28

Sec. Is. Be it further enacted, etc. That each
supervisor Of registration and assistant super
visor of registration shall receive as cOmpensa
ton. FIVE dollars per day for each day he sha
discharge the duties of his office, from the time
he shall open his Office until the time he shall
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, tC
which shall be appended an authenticated copy
of his appointment; said account shall be ex
| am1ned and II correct approved by the State
| registrar OF voters and the Governor and the
| 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. Is. Be it further enacted, etc, That each
supervisor and assistant supervisor of registra-
ton shall have two clerks, who shall each re-
ceive three and one-haf dollars per day for the
time they are actually employed, not to exceed
the length of time for which the supervisor or
the assistant supervisor of registration for the
parish or ward may receive pay, to be paid i'll
the same manner as is provided 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 Of registra-
ton who shall swear to a 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. 18 Be it further enacted, etc, That be-
fore each and every parish, city, town or ward
6leeJlOn, OEnor imam the general election, the Su
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
fled 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
in the same manner, and subject to the same
provisions as are herein laid down for registra-
ton before the general election, except to the
n nft tJy n NnJTy0 0rln.InS hp nff96aS nf
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
istratfQn shall close nine days before any elec
ton. The supervisors of registration III 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 hour and place Of appearing, may he
published in a newspaper i'll the parish, if there
be one printed, and shall be posted Sat 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.
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted. etc, That the
respective supervisors and assistant supervisors
IF registration shall each have the 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 be done or incurred 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 ntcrrOgated by any of said officers shall
be punished as perjury.
Sec. 20. Beitfurther enacted, etc, That every
person of foreign birth claiming a right to be
shall, in addition to the proof of resi-
dence, prove that he has been naturaliZed. con-
to the laws Of the United States and
as evidence thereof he shall produce 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 certiti-
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 be 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 naturalized 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
or assistant supervisor Of registra |
ion, bnt not otherwise, he shall register the |
name of the claimant on the registration book |
and shall stamp or write on the said certificate |
)f naturalization the word registered" with |
The number and precinct OF, the ward or parish |
md the date of registry and add thereto his off
;ial signature. '.,.
Sec q, Be it further enacted. etc. That the |
OF registration for each parish shall |
carefully, examine the registration books, and /
f. 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
fext election, lie shall strike the name of every
Hch person therefPom by drawing line in red |
nix through the same; that the name of no per
on shall be stricken from the registration 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
" affirmation, that such person is not resident
II 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 |
md shall strike therefrbm the names of all per
ons who are not residing In the parish or pre-
inct on the ninth day before the election and
he names remaining on said books of resistFa-
ion, as corrected by the supervisor of registra-
ion and assistant supervisor Of registration, as
fGresaid shall constitute the registry of citizens
Iualifled to vote in the said parish or ward at
he next election. r.5-. r@s-ls+5C.- -e..
Sec. %. Be it further enacted etc, That the
aid book of registration shall be the only evi-
n have resided for ten days Immediately pre-
eding the said election in the said parish or
ward, i.f..gf IL TN s.-lFr.fse r - 1--
Sec. o. Be it further enacted, etc., That the
eg1stratiOn 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, in every parish in this State, to make
ut and furnish certified copies, written OF print
d, of the lists OF the registered voters to the
of election of each precinct or
IOling place, to be used at the election or cleo
ions to be held therein, and failure of the SUI
'ervisOr or assistant supervisor of registration
o furnish such copies of the list of registered
'Oters before the hour OF opening the polls, shall
ubject such delinquent supervisors or assistant
upervisors of registration to a fine of not less
han one hundred, nor more than five hundred
Ollars, to be recovered for the use of the parish
e. :,
ed, to be sued for in the name of the parish; and
shall be the duty of the district attorney pro
emp0re of such parish to institute any suit,
any such delinquency shall be brought
O his knowledge by any commissioner of cleo
ion, or when 1t Ia known to himself.
Sec. "a Be 1t further enacted, etc, That the
of registration, of each parish shall
;eep his office, except in the parish of Orleans,
It the courthouse OF the parish, and may es-
ahlish such places for the registration of voters
ther than the courthouse, not less than three
II more than twelve, as may be necessary to
nable electors to register with as little incOn-
.enience as possible, and, in all cases publica-
ion OF the office OF registration, as selected by
he supervisor or assistant supervisor of regis
ration, shall be made for thirty days in the
fficial journal of the parish. In the parishes
# Orleans and Jefferson, the supervisor or as
istant supervisor of registration shall estab-
isll offices at such places as will facilitate the
egistering of voters as far as possible The
upervfsnr or assistant supervisor of registTa-
ion for each parish or precinct, shall require
very person, before he fs registered as a voter,
o take and subscribe the following affidavit,
nd the supervisor or assistant supervisor of
egistration is hereby authorized to administer
aid oath: ...e.. .,-..s
I, -, do sOlemnly swear Tor affirm. as the
ase may bel, that I am twenty-one years of
tge, was born Tor naturalized, as the case may
Dey 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 q resident OF this parish since the
- day of -, and that am not dsfran-
hised for any of the causes stated in article
linety-nne of the constitution of this State.
The taking and subscribing the atfdayits re-
lulped hV the preceding part of this section