The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-10-04
observation-disclosures
Registration and the Voting

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The Registrar will, on his return
to Alexandria, make appointments of
Commissioners and fix the polling
places. We do not anticipate any
trouble on that score, hue it will be
better that the appointments should
be known as soon as possible.
Several hundred negroes have oh
tanned new registration papers,on the
plea of having lost their old ones.
We do not blame the Registrar for
that, as he was hound to accept their
assertion or oath Of The fact, but it is
all important to us that these several
hundred negroes should not be per-
mitted TO use both their old and new
papers. There is an ample check to
this if the matter is attended to, and
we desire thus early TO acquaint our
friends with it.
All the new papers issued have on
chem, we are told by the Registrar,
! both the oil: and new number. The
new numbers commence with the
No. =, and any paper having num-
her greater than that number are
new and She voter must vote on his
new certi scate. This then, at the
time under the law is to he marked
! Voted. November It'll. 1876" by one
e of the Commissioners. The poll
i hooks furnished to each voting
place will have ON it, we learn from
the same source, only the new nun.
bers of those who have obtained new
y papers, so that if any voter produces
y and offers tn vote on mis- old papers
u and the poll books show that he Oh
:. t,ined new papers, he will not he en-
u tilted to vote on the old buG mus
= produce the new ones.
: To illustrate, let u.s. suppose tina
Jack Jones comes up and offers tt
! vote on an old sertiGrate at the AL
l. exandria Ward. let one of the Com
. missioners see if Jack Jones has oh
tanned new certificates They viii
e ascertain that fact by looking owe
J" all the us" in the poll book VIII
l. have obtained papers with large
}" numbers than -. If he is anon,
~ the new ones let them call on him t,
s. produce his new papers--this the,
y have a right to do. because he coul,
& only obtain new papers Ivy swearing
TO that he had lost the old ones. If h
y declines to produce his new ones s
" that he may vote on it and have i
o. marked "Vote,l November 7th, 1875.
ne he is not entitled to vote. If h
or does produce his new ones and it
K SO marked, Jack Jones will fin.l it &
Us no further use to him at the othe
wards; if the Commissioners at ever
n ward will take the precaution
Sc look on the back of every new cert
TT. icate offered. There is this otht
ed check also, that all the old certil
Us Gates are signed by E. j. Barrett an
IN all the new ones by B. W Woodru
rs Without regard to numbers let tt
mt Commissioners at every precinct FIR
as see who signed the certificate, tn,
ar find the name on the poll hook az
it'll cheek it, then let them exam,
lat carefully every certificate offer
Ell back and front to see if it has on
al. the mark "Voted November II
nj 1885, and let them be Gerry caret
in to SO mark every certificate up
5h- which vote is cast. Proper cauti
Su- on the part of our Commissions
.ch will put an efectual check upon t
,ch repeating game we are satisfi
-, some Of the negroes will try to pls
~ for it would be hard to make us
cit; lleve that ten negroes in the Pari
use actually lost their old papers.