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..mention, they could BOO no reason 



thej >hould not at tin- xime time v.-tc for 

 .ho Mood ii|ii>n :i |il:itlon. i of constitu- 

 tional riirhK ''' I 1 "' convention should adopt a 

 oiistitntion, they could see no good 



., \vll\ til.' people should ratify it," 1 ete. 



Much complaint existed relative tothoBoards 



1st ration. Some denounced registration 

 ce. It wr as asserted that in the back oonn- 



, ii \\vrc driven uway from the books who 

 had in A or hold oilier, but. had furnishod the sol- 

 dier-- with food; that five thousand minor blacks 

 -ogisterod and at least five thousand 

 white- defrauded of their right to register, etc. 

 also considered that the recent Amnesty 

 Proclamation of the President relieved nearly 

 nil the whites of any danger from confiscation, 

 or trial for treason, and restored them to the 

 same right of suffrage they had before the war, 

 as the action of the Federal Government 

 \\ a- concerned. It was not anticipated that 

 these additional names would bo allowed by 

 the military commanders to go on the regis- 



at these officers were in a measure inde- 

 pendent of the President, and sustained by 



resa. And they were not entered. 

 The chief of the Board of Kegistration, on 

 September 7th, issued detailed instructions to 

 the Hoards in the State, in compliance with a 



.d order from headquarters. The follow- 

 ing relate to the manner of voting : 



I. The revision of the registration, which is direct- 

 i-il 1>\ law to commence tourteen days before the 



ii, will be made in the set of books retained by 

 each board, using for that purpose the blank pages 

 left at the end of each precinct. A duplicate list of 

 tin- names added or struck off will be sent to this 

 office for the completion of the record. Each name 

 should be numbered as in the preceding registration. 



II. Printed lists of registered voters, arranged for 

 convenient use at the election, are in preparation, 

 and will be dispatched to the several boards as fast 

 as completed. Should doubt arise, in any case, as 

 to the accuracy of any of these, they will be verified 

 by reference to the books of registration, which 

 should be at the place of election for that purpose. 

 Such correction as the revision of the registration 



require should be carefully made beforehand. 



III. Boards of Registration will provide, at each 

 place of election within their respective districts, 

 such number of ballot-boxes (the same that are used 

 at ordinary elections) as shall be ample to receive 

 within three days the vote of the county. When 

 more boxes than one are used, the county will be 

 divided among them by precincts, and such publica- 

 tion made as shall avoid confusion. 



IV. Boards of Registration will assign to each 

 ballot-box three judges of election, who shall also 

 net as clerks, and to whom compensation will be 

 made from this office. They will also be sworn, as 

 ivi[iiirfd by Paragraph VI., General Order No. 59, 

 above referred to. Members of Boards of Registra- 

 tion will, when convenient, act as judges of election. 



VI. But one ballot will be received from each 

 which shall contain his vote upon the ques- 

 tion of convention, and for delegates, cither or both, 

 as he may desire. 



VII. Ivu-h voter, in presenting a ballot, shall give 

 hU name to the judges of election. One of the 

 judges shall receive the ballot, call his name audibly, 

 and if In- be registered, and be the man he represents 

 himself to be, deposit the ballot in the box. At the 

 same time the name of the voter on the printed lists 



shall be ao marked as to prevent a repetition of hu 



V 1 1 f. The ballots shall be counted by the judges, 

 one of whom shall take them separately from the 

 box, rending uloud "for a convention" or "against 

 u convent i 'H, " us the case may be, and the names 

 nf tin prisons voted for as delegates to the conven- 

 tion. An account shall be made by the other two 

 ot the number of votes given of each class as regards 

 the convention, and for each person as a delegate. 



The following is the official vote of the' State 

 under the Reconstruction Acts of Congress : 



