The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1884-04-19
LAKE CHARLES CALCASIEU PARISH LOUISIANA SATURDAY,
PROCLAMATION
ELECTION.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
STATE OF LOUISIANA.


WHEREAS, it is provided by the
w Constitution that on the Tuesday
next following the third Monday in
April, 1884, members of the General
Assembly of the State of Louisiana, to
represent the hereinafter Senatorial
Districts, parishes and Representative
Districts of the oity of New Orleans,
shall be elected throughout the State
| by the qualified voters of their respect
i've Senatorial Districts parishes and
Representative Districts, to serve for
four years in the following manner, to
wit:
And whereas. it is also provided that,
on the same day there shall be elected,
throughout the State 1.-THE parish of Or
leans excepted) by the qualified cleo
tors of their respective parishes, one
Clerk of the District Court, one Sher-
iff and one Coroner, for the term OF
four years.
And, whereas, it is also provided that
on the same day, there shall be elected
by the qualified electors of the parish
of Orleans one District Attorney, one
Judge, one Clerk and one Constable
for each of the First, Second, Third
and Fourth City Courts of New Orleans,
one Clerk of the Civil District Court,
one Clerk of the Criminal District
Court, one Civil Sheriff, one Criminal
Sheriff, one Register of Conveyances
and one Recorder of Mortgages for the
term of four years.
And whereas, it is also further pro-
vided that on the same day, there shall
be elected by the qualified electors of
each aud every ward of the several
parishes of this State (the parish of Or
leans excepted) one Justice OF the
Peace and one Constable, for the term
of fonr years. except in such wards in
which there is an incorporated town,
there shall be elected two Justices OF
the peace. And in order that none but
the qualified electors of the ward shall
vote for such officers, the ballots of
such electors for said officers shall be
received and deposited in n separate
box to be kept for that purpose.
And, whereas, the General Assembly,
at its last regular session held in 1882,
has adopted certain proposed amend.
ments to the Constitution of this State,
which, under the provisions of Article
256 of said Constitution, are required |
to be submitted to the qualified electors
for their approval or rejection, which |
amendments have been more fully set |
forth and desert bed in the official pro-
mitigation by the Secretary of State, il
accordance with the provisions of said
Article of the Constitution; to which
reference is had, and are submitted to
the qualified electors of this State for
their approval or rejection in such man
ner and form that the qualified electors
may vote for or against each OF said
amendments separately.
Now, therefore, l, SAMUEL DOU-
GLAS MoENERY, Governor of the
State of Louisiana, do hereby issue
this, my proclamation, directing an
election to be held throughout the
State, at such places as may be desig-
mated by the legal local authority
thereof, on
the 22d Day Of April,
A. D. 1884, lit being the Tuesday next
the third Monday in April
from seven o'clock in the morning un-
til six o'clock in the afternoon, for the
purpose of electing the aforementioned
officers and for taking the vote of the
qualified electors OF this State on the
proposed amendments of the Constitu.
ton OF this State, which have been
adopted by two-third vote of all the
members elected to each House Of the
General Assembly of this State, at its
last regular session of 1882, and which
are more fully enumerated in the Off
cial publication thereof made by the
Secretary of State and duly prOmul-
gated as required by the Constitutions;
and / do hereby direct the several Re-
turning officers, the Assessors, acting
as Registrar of voters, the Civil Sheriff
and the Supervisor of Registration of
the parish OF Orleans, the Commission
ers of Election and all other officers
therein interested. to hold said election
on the day aforesaid, and at the places
10 be designated by the legal local au-
thorities, within their respective
parishes. Said election to be conduct
ed and the returns thereof to be made
in the manner and within the time pre-
scribed by law.
The Returning officers are hereby
to make duplicate returns of .
JuS FOt6 ChbJ IOE HONbEuOE anu lIleu- .
tenant Governor, separately, from the
returns of other officers, sealed and
to the Secretary of State
md endorsed across, Returns for the
election of Governor and Lieutenant {
Governor, parish o." They are |
llso ins .ructed to make separate re-
,urns of the vote cast in each ward OF
heir respective parishes for Justices of ,
he Peace and Constables, designating {
which wards are entitled to two Justices +
II the Peace.
In view Of the short space OF time be- !
ween the day of the election and the
Meeting Of the General Assembly, and I
n order that the PRONUNCIATION OF the
Election returns should be made as
speedily Gs possible and in due time,
he Returning officers are requested to c
Use all diligence possible to transmit
heir election returns as early as prac-
icable to the office of the Secretary of :
State.
Given under my signature and the
eal Of the State of Louisiana, at the {
,ity of Baton Rouge. this sixteenth day
II February, in the year OF bur Lord /
)ne Thousand Eight Hundred and Q
S. ID. MoENERY, Z
BY the Governor: =
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