The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1878-11-01


ments Of tho election law and OF the
duties of all officers of election, which
synopsis they herewith submit and re-
commend that the same be printed, or
such disposition be made thereof as the
club may deem advisable.
Respectfully submitted,
A. A. GUNBY, Chairman.
Synopsis of the duties Of election
officers, as contained IN act No, So,
approved april IL, 1877, and act No.
80, approved March IA, 1878:
1. The duties of the Sheriff are, to
give 80 days. notice of election to pro-
vide ballot boxes to receive certified
list of voters registered for each polling
place from assessor !; to deliver at each
polling place by seven o'clock a. M.
ON election day a ballot box containing
the list of voters registered for that
poll to swear commissioners to re-
ceive from Secretary of State Is days
before election blank tally lists and
| returns for each polling place to fur
| nish these tally lists to commissioners;
to appoint a deputy sheriff for each
polling place; to receive from the
| commissioners tally sheets and COM
piled statements of votes cast at each
poll to repair to the court house within
48 hours after polls are closed and
there in presence of witnesses to COM
pile the returns and make public proc
lamation of the result of the election
to mako out triplicate returns of the
votes cast to be certified by the clerk
of the court to deliver two of these
returns to the clerk and to forward the
other certified return, together with
the tally lists from which it is made,
by mail to the Secretary of State.
2. 1t is the duty of the Assessor to
deliver to the Sheriff, "a hours before
the opening of the polls, an alphabet
ical list of the voters registered for
each polling place, certified by him to
be correct. This list shall contain the
number of the registration of each
voter in the election precinct where
the polling place is situated.
3. 1t is the duty of the Secretary Of
State to furnish the Sheriff with blank
| tally lists and returns Is days before
election.
ton appointed for each polling place
to assist the commissioners of election
in keeping the list of the names of
persons voting at each polling place.
He must be sworn before the polls are
opened.
5. The duties of the commissioners
of election are, to repair to the polling
place before seven O'Clock ON the
morning of tho election to administer
the oath to each other in the absence
of an officer authorized to administer
oaths to open tho polls Mt seven a. M,
and keep them open till p. m; to
preserve order at tho election and to
commit to prison any disordcrly per-
son until one hour after the closing of
the polls to put any person offering to
k~s I, al,
and to refuse to permit such person to
vote unless he make written affidavit
that he is the person registered, has not
voted elsewhere and is a duly qualified
| elector Of the precinct In which he Of
| fers to vote, which aflidavits shall he
preserved by the commissioners as Il
part of their returns; to erase the
| name of each person voting from the
| list of voters and to call the name
aloud to receive the votes and deposit
them, or, if the voter desire, permit
him to deposit his own vote in the
ballot box to keep a list Of the names
of persons voting, numbered from one
to the end, which list they shall sign
and swear to DO correct before COM
! mencing to count the vote; to count
the vote without moving the ballot
box from the room or the place where
|
all double tickets, keeping note
thereof; to keep two tally sheets OF
the count and write the total amounts
Of said ITALICS both in figures and in
letters to replace all the ballots in the
ballot box after tho completion of the
count and TO seal said box rs soon as
the count is completed, they shall
make two compiled statements of the
names OF all persons voted for, the
offices for which they were voted, the
number Of votes contained in the box,
tho number Of ballots rejected and the
reasons therefor these compiled state
ments shall be sworn to by all tho
commissioners, the oath to be admin
istcrcd by any officer authorized to
administer oaths or by the commission
ers to each other. AS soon as the
statements arc made and sworn TO, the
commissioners themselves, or ut least
two OF them, shall take the ballot box
and deliver it together with ono of the
tally sheets and one of the compiled
statements and the list of persons
voting to the Clerk of the District
Court; they shall deliver the other
statement and tally sheet to the Sheriff.
If none of the commissioners attend at