VII. The commanding officer of each district will give public notice when and where the registers will commence the registration, which notice will be kept public by the registers in each district during the whole time occupied by registration. VIII. Interference by violence, or threats of violence, or other oppressive means to prevent the registration of any voter, is positively prohibited, and any person guilty of such interference shall be arrested and tried by the military authorities.

Enrolling the New Electorate

War Department Archives, G. O. no. 20, 3d Military District.

[May 21, 1867]

IN accordance with [the act of March 23, 1867].

I. The States of Georgia and Alabama are divided into registration districts, and numbered and bounded as hereinafter described.

II. A Board of Registration is herein appointed for each district. . to consist of two white registrars and one colored registrar. In the State of Georgia, where only the two white registrars are designated in this order, it is directed that these white registrars in each district immediately select, and cause to be duly qualified. . a competent colored man to complete the Board of Registration.

III. Each registrar will be required to take and subscribe the [“iron clad" oath] . . and an additional oath to discharge faithfully the duty of registrar under the late acts of Congress. It is not believed that any of the appointees hereinafter designated will be unable to take the test oath mentioned. Blank forms of these oaths will be sent to the appointees at once, and on being executed and returned to the superintendents of State registration, their commissions as registrars will be issued and forwarded to them immediately.

IV. In order to secure a full registration of voters, it is determined to fix the compensation of registrars according to the general rule adopted in taking the census. In the cities, the compensation is fixed at fifteen cents for each recorded voter; in

the most sparsely settled counties and districts, at forty cents per voter. The compensation will be graduated between these limits according to the density of the population, and the facilities of communication. Ten cents per mile will be allowed for the transportation of registrars off the lines of railroads and steamboats.

V. It is hereby made the duty of all registrars, and they will be expected to perform it strictly, to explain to all persons, who have heretofore not enjoyed the right of suffrage, what are their political rights and privileges, and the necessity of exercising them upon all proper occasions.

VI. The name of each voter shall appear in the list of voters for the precinct or ward in which he resides; and in cases where voters have been unable to register, whilst the Board were in the wards or precincts, where such voter lives, opportunity will be given to register at the county seats of their respective counties, at a specified time, of which due notice will be given; but the names of all voters thus registered, will be placed on the list of voters of their respective precincts.

VII. The Board of Registration will give due notice, so that it may reach persons entitled to register, of the date they will be in each election precinct, the time they will spend in it, and the place where the registration will be made; and upon the completion of the registration for each county, the Board of Registration will give notice that they will be present for three successive days, at the county seat of such county, to register such voters as have failed to register, or been prevented from registering in their precincts, and to hear evidence in the cases of voters rejected by the registrars in the several precincts, who may desire to present testimony in their own behalf. . .

IX. The lists of registered voters, for each of the precincts, will be exposed in some public place in that precinct, for ten consecutive days, at some time subsequent to the completion of the registration for each county, and before any election is held, in order that all supposed cases of fraudulent registration may be thoroughly investigated. Due notice will be given

and provisions made for the time and place for the examination and settlement of such cases. . .

XII. Violence or threats of violence, or any other oppressive means to prevent any person from registering his name, or exercising his political rights, are positively prohibited, and it is distinctly announced that no contract or agreement with laborers, which deprive them of their wages for any longer time than actually consumed in registering or voting will be permitted to be enforced against them in this district; and this offence, or any previously mentioned in this paragraph, will cause the immediate arrest of the offender and his trial before a military commission.

XIII. The exercise of the right of every duly authorized voter, under the late acts of Congress, to register and vote, is guaranteed by the military authorities of this district; and all persons whomsoever are warned against any attempt to interfere to prevent any man from exercising this right, under any pretext whatever, other than objection by the usual legal mode.

XIV. In case of any disturbance or violence at the place of registration, or any molestation of registrars or of appli cants to register, the Board of Registration will call upon the local civil authorities for a police force, or a posse, to arrest the offender and preserve quiet, or, if necessary, upon the nearest military authorities, who are hereby instructed to furnish the necessary aid. Any civil officials who refuse, or who fail to protect registrars or applicants to register, will be reported to the headquarters of the officer commanding in the State, who will arrest such delinquents, and send charges against them to these headquarters, that they may be brought before a military commission. [Here follows a list of names of registrars for the two States].

Persons Disfranchised

War Department Archives. Memoranda published by the commander of the Fifth Military District (Louisiana and Texas). [1867] 1. Every person who has acted as United States Senator or Representative.

2. All who have acted as electors of President or Vice President.

3. Every person who held any position in the Army or Navy of the United States.

4. All persons who held any position under the United States, in which they were required to take an oath before they entered upon the duties of office; such as officers in the customhouse, post-office, mint, judges, and all officers of the United States court, United States marshals, and deputies.

5. All who have been Governor of the State, State senator or representative, Secretary of State, treasurer, and all officers provided for in the constitution of the State, made in 1845 and 1852, including judges of courts, justices of peace, clerks of courts and deputies, sheriffs and deputies, constable and deputies, tax-collectors, assessors, coroners, police, jurors, auctioneers, pilots, harbor-masters, recorders of conveyance and mortgages, parish recorders, notaries public, and all commissioned officers in the State militia. Every person who has acted as mayor of the City, treasurer, comptroller, recorder, alderman, assessor, tax collector, administrator of the Charity Hospital, a member of the Board of Health, a commissioner of elections and his clerks, chief of police, lieutenant of police, and all who have served on the police force. Wardens, and under-wardens of the parish prison and work house, board of school-directors, city surgeons and deputies, street commissioner and deputies, city attorney and assistant attorney, superintendent of public schools, inspectors of tobacco, flour, beef, and pork, and weights and measures, managers of the asylums for the deaf and dumb and blind, and sextons of cemeteries.

All who in 1862 and 1864 registered themselves as aliens, or who obtained protection papers from the representatives of foreign powers.

Any person who, at any time, held any of the above offices, and who afterward engaged in rebellion against the United States, or gave aid and comfort to the enemies thereof, is disqualified from voting.

I.

Questions to be Answered by Persons Proposing to Register 1. Have you been United States Senator, Representative, or elector of President or Vice President, at any time before January 26, 1861?

2. Did you hold any office under the United States Government of any kind whatsoever, before January 26, 1861?

3. Did you hold any office under the government of this State of any kind whatsoever, to which you were elected or appointed, prior to January 26, 1861?

4. Did you hold any office under the city government, of any kind whatsoever, to which you were elected or appointed prior to January 26, 1861?

5. Did you in 1862 or in 1864 register yourself as an alien, or did you obtain protection papers from representatives of any foreign power?

In case any of the preceding questions are answered "Yes," or should you know they should be so answered, it would be proper to ask the following:

6. Were you in the Confederate service, military, naval, or civil, or did you give aid and comfort to those engaged in hostility to the United States?

If answered, "Yes," or if you know it to be so, they must not be registered.

I.

Interference with the Civil Government

War Department Archives, G. O. no. 32, 2d Military District.

[May 30, 1867]

Any citizen, a qualified voter, according to the [Acts of March 2 and March 23, 1867] is eligible to office in the provisional government of North and South Carolina. All persons appointed to office will be required to take the oath prescribed by the act aforesaid, and to file the same, duly subscribed and sworn to, with the post commander.

2. All citizens assessed for taxes, and who shall have paid taxes for the current year, are qualified to serve as jurors. It shall be the duty of the proper civil officers, charged with providing lists of jurors, to proceed, within their several jurisdictions, without delay, and ascertain the names of all qualified