The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-04-19
published BY AUTHORITY.

purposes
SECTION 1. cit enacted by tie Legislature Of
the State Of Mississippi, That the Governor,
or the person upon whom the powers and duties
of Governor have devolved, and the President
pro tempore of the Senate, when the Presl- |
dent pro temp0re of the Senate shall, under the
Constitution and laws of the State, become Gov |
ernor, the permanent presiding officer OF the
Senate and the Secretary of State be and are
hereby appointed State Board of Registra-
ton.
SEC. 2. BE II further enactea, That is Gt) |
shall be the duty of such State Board of Reg
istraton, on or before the first Monday in June,
A. d., 1876, and annually thereafter, to appoint
in each county in the State, three persons, as
county board Of registration, who shall be tit
and competent men, and they are hereby con
stituted peace officers with full power and au
thority to preserve the peace while in the dis
charge Of their duties as registrars, and they
shall take the oath of office prescribed by the
Constitution Of this State for other officers.
All of said county board of registration shall
not be members of the same political party.
The county board of registration appointed as
aforesaid, shall hold their office for the period
Of one year from the first day of June, a. d.,
1876, and until their successors are appointed
and qualified; Proyided, that the State Board
of Registration may, at any time, for good ana
sufficient causes remove any one or more OF the
county board of registration, and may fill any
vacancy occurring therein; such appOintee
appointees to hold their office for the term
which was nexpired at the time at which they
were appointed. That the State Board Of Reg
istraton shall transmit their certificate of the
appointment of the county board of registra
ton to the chancery clerk of the proper
county, who shall, free of cost, record the same
in the book kept for the registration Of deeds,
and copy of such record, certified under the
hand and seal of such chancery clerk, shall be
evidence of such appointment in all proceed
ings. civil or criminal, in any of the courts OF
at no q RppIS-
tration shall fail by the first Monday in August,
1876, and annually thereafter to appoint the
county board of registration, then, and in
that case, the board of supervisors Of the
county may appoint county board OF regis
tration; Py0cided, That in making the appoint
1nents aforesaid all Of the county board of reg
istration shall not be members of the same po-
litcal party.
SEC 3. Be 1t further enacted That the
county board of registration shall, on or before
the first Monday in September 1876, and an
nually thereafter, divide each supervisors dis
triet of the county into election district, detin
ing the same where more than one election
district is established in a supervisors district
by metes and bounds, and shall establish in
each election district voting precinct,
which shall be the only voting precinct in
which such election district, and shall deslg
nate such election district by the name of the
voting precinct if it have one, if not, by some
name designating the locality selected; Pro
pidea That if after the year 1876, any county
board of registration shall fail to divide and
define such election district and to designate
the voting precinct therein. then the election
districts and voting precinct previously defined
and designated, shall remain until changed
That the county board of registration shall APP
point period of not less than two, more
than five days for the qualified voters of each
election district to appear for registration at
the voting precinct for each election district
terminating such registration at the county
seat not longer than five days before any gen
eral election, and shall give at least two weeks
notice of the time and place of such registra-
tion, by publishing the same in some public
newspaper published in the county, and by
posting notices of the same in at least one OF
the most public places in each election dis
1rict in the county; and if no public newspa-
per be published in the county, then by post
ing notices of the same in at least ten of the
most public places therein; and at the time
and places published, and during the bust
ness hours of the day, one of said county board
OfRegistration to be designated as. hereinafter
provided, shall proceed to examine and admin
lister the OATH duly subscribed by the affiant,
or by his mark swhen he is unable to write,
and attested by such registrar, and to register
each voter in the form and manner hereinafter
prescribed. No person convicted of bribery
perjury. forgery or other infamous crime, shall
be registered; Pr0cided, That in the counties
of Simpson, Smith, Jones, CovingtOn, Greene,
Wayne, Perry, Marion and Pearl, the county
board OF registration shall not appoint q longer
time than two days less than one day, for
registering the qualified voters in each election
district in said counties
SEC. +. BE 1t further enacted, That the pub
lie printer shall Immediately proceed to have
blank books prepared of large paper, and Of a
sufficient number of pages therein that the
same will contain the number of two thousand
names of voters, under the printed heading of
the oath required by article I, section 3, of the
Constitution of the State of Mississippi. That
said blank books shall have printed at the top
trict OF Supervisors District, No. -, County
of -, Mississippi, and next the oath pre-
scribed in article I, section 3, of the State Con
stitution. The page under said oath shall be
divided into eight columns: the first for mum
ber the second for date, the third for name Of
voter to be written by registrar, the fourth for
sSwhite or colored, the fifth, residence and in
what portion of election district, and if in
Incorporated city in what ward: the sixth, oe-
cupation, where prosecuted, and, if employed
by any one name of employer; the seventh
for voters name to be written by himself. or
his mark if he cannot write and the eighth for
the registrars attestatOn. and the words,
Registration Book -, Election Distinct 81
Supervisors District No. -, County of 49,.
Mississippi, shall be printed on the outside
or before the first Monday OF August, A. d.,
chancery court of the different counties al
sufficient number of such blank books to
supply each voting precinct in the coun