ALABAMA. 



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the above-mentioned oath. Those IK 



v> U- set a-idf, and their 

 i hy i.tluTs. Another order prohib- 

 -:a!c <>H'uvr> from advertising in journals 

 whir!i uppo-v'd tin- system of reconstruction, 

 ipplied to cases even in wliicli a right was 

 giviMi l>y State law to private parties to ad ver- 

 a journal of their own choice, as in pro- 

 Late proceedings. The registration of voters in 

 Alabama was completed in August, and the re- 

 turns of the chief of the Kegistratiou Bureau 

 U follows : 



According to the census of the State, taken in 

 1866, the number of white males then was 

 261,004, and the number of black males 214,253 ; 

 total, 475,257 males. The returns give the 

 blacks a majority of 15,495 votes in the State. 

 Of the sixty-two counties only thirty gave small 

 white majorities, and the remaining thirty-two 

 gave large negro majorities. 



On August 31st Major-General Pope issued 

 the following orders for the election of dele- 

 gates to a State convention for the purpose of 

 establishing a constitution and civil government 

 for the State of Alabama : 



General Orders, No. 69. 

 Hi:u>yuARTEK8 THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT) 

 (GEORGIA, ALABAMA, AND FLORIDA), V 

 \ i I.AXTA, GA., August 81, 1S67. ) 

 I. }VTierea, By the terms of an net of Congress 

 entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient gov- 



ernment of the rebel States," passed March 2, 1847, 

 and the acts supplementary thereto, it is made the 



duty of the coinnnmdiiiggencral of this military dis- 

 Men to cause a registration to be mode of the male 

 citizens ot the State of Alabama, twenty-one years of 

 a;."- and upward, and by the terms of said acts ijuali- 

 tieil to vote; ami after such registration ; 

 to order an election to be held, at which tl>< 

 tcred rotors of said State shall vote for or again -t u 

 convention, for the purpose of establishing a consti- 

 tution and civil government for said State, loyal to 

 the Union, and for delegates to said convention ; and 

 to give at least thirty days' notice of the time and 

 place at which the election shall be held ; and the 

 said registration having been made in the State of 

 Alabama: 



II. It i Ordered, That an election be held in the 

 State of Alabama, commencing on Tuesday, the first 

 day of October, A. D. 18G7, and continuing three days, 

 at which the registered voters of said State may vote 

 " for a Convention " or " against a Convention, and 

 for delegates to constitute the convention, in case a 

 majority of votes given on that question shall be for 

 a convention ; ana in case a majority of all such re- 

 gistered voters shall have votea on the question of 

 holding such convention 



III. It shall be the duty of Boards of Registration 

 in Alabama, commencing fourteen days prior to the 

 election herein ordered, and giving reasonable public 

 notice of the time and place thereof, to revise, for a 

 period of five days, the registration lists, and, upon 

 being satisfied that any person not entitled thereto 

 has been registered, to strike the name of such per- 

 son from the list, and such person shall not be al- 

 lowed to vote. The Board of Registration shall also, 

 during the same period, add to such registry the 

 names of all persons who at that time possess the 

 qualifications required by said act who have not been 

 already registered. 



IV. In deciding who are to be stricken from or 

 added to the registration lists, the Boards will be 

 guided by the law and the acts supplementary there- 

 to. And" their attention is especially drawn to the 

 supplementary act dated July 19, \*>'~. 



v . The said election shall be held in each county 

 at the county seat, under the superintendence of the 

 Board of Registration, as provided by law, and in ac- 

 cordance with instructions to be hereafter issued to 

 said Boards. 



VI. All judges and clerks employed in conducting 

 said election shall, before commencing to hold the 

 same, be sworn to the faithful performance of their 

 duties, and shall also take and subscribe to the oath 

 of ofilce prescribed by law for officers of the United 

 States. 



VII. The polls shall be opened at each voting-place, 

 during the days specified, at seven o'clock in the 

 forenoon, and closed at six o'clock in the afternoon, 

 and shall be kept open between those hours without 

 intermission or adjournment. 



VIII. The commanding officer of the district of 

 Alabama will issue, through the Su]M'iintendcnt of 

 Registration for that State, such detailed instructions 

 as may be necessary to the conduct of said election 

 in conformity with the acts of Congress, and, as far 

 as may be, with the laws of Alabama. 



IX. The returns required by law to be made of the 

 results of said election to the commanding general 

 of this military district, will be rendered by the per- 

 sons appointed to superintend the same, through the 

 commanding officer of the district of Alabama, and 

 in accordance with the detailed instructions already 

 referred to. 



X. No registrar who is a candidate for election as 

 a delegate to the convention shall serve as a judge of 

 the election in any county which he seeks to represent. 



XI. All public bar-rooms, saloons, and other places 

 for the sale of liquors at retail, at the several county 

 seats, shall be closed from six o'clock on the evening 

 of the 30th day of September until six o'clock on the 



