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5. It shall be the duty of the Boards of Eegistra- 

 tion in Georgia, in accordance with said acts, com- 

 mencing 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 regis- 

 tered, to strike the name of such person from the 

 list, and such person shall not be allowed to vote. 

 And such Boards shall also, during the same period, 

 add to such registry the names ot all persons who, 

 at that time, possess the qualifications required by 

 said acts ; who have not been already registered. 



In deciding who are to be stricken from or added 

 to the registration lists, the Boards will be guided 

 by the acts of Congress relating to reconstruction, 

 and their attention is especially called to the supple- 

 mentary act which became a law July 19, 1867. 



6. Said election shall be held in each county in the 

 State under the superintendence of the Boards of 

 Eegistration, as provided by law, and polls will be 

 opened^ after due and sufficient notice, at as many 

 points in each county, not exceeding three, as, in 

 the opinion of said Boards, may be required for the 

 convenience of voters. And in any city, or other 

 place, where there is a large number of voters, it is 

 hereby made the duty of said Boards to open as 

 many polls as may be necessary to enable the voters 

 to cast their votes without unreasonable delay. 



7. Any person, duly registered in the State as a 

 voter, may vote in any county in the State where he 

 offers to vote, when he has resided therein for ten 

 days next preceding the election. "When he offers 

 to vote in the county where he was registered, and 

 his name appears on the list of registered voters, he 

 shall not be subject to question or challenge, except 

 for the purpose of identification, or as to residence. 

 And any person so registered, who may have re- 

 moved from the county in which he was registered, 

 ehall be permitted to vote in any county in the State 

 to which he has removed, when he has resided 

 therein for ten days next preceding the election, upon 

 presentation of his certificate of registration, or 

 upon making affidavit before a member of the Board 

 of Registration, or a judge or manager of the elec- 

 tion, that he is registered as a voter, naming the 

 county; -in which he is so registered ; that he has re- 

 sided in the county where he offers to vote for ten 

 days next preceding the election, and that he has not 

 voted at this election. Blanks for such affidavits 

 will be supplied by the Boards of Eegistration, and 

 the name or the voter making oath must be indorsed 

 on his ballot, and all such affidavits must be for- 

 warded with the returns of the election. 



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

 during the days of the election, at 7 o'clock A. M., and 

 close at 6 o'clock p. M., and shall be kept open, be- 

 tween those hours, without intermission or adjourn- 

 ment. 



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

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

 seats, and at other polling-places, shall be closed 

 from 6 o'clock of the evening preceding the election 

 until 6 o'clock of the morning after the last day of 

 the election. Any person violating this order shall 

 be subject to fine or imprisonment. Sheriffs and 

 their deputies and municipal officers will be held 

 responsible for the strict enforcement of this prohi- 

 bition, by the arrest of all persons who may trans- 

 gress the same. 



10. The sheriff of each county is hereby required 

 to be present at the county seat, and to appoint dep- 

 uties to be present at each polling-place in ms county, 

 during the whole time that the polls are kept open, 

 and until the election is completed, and is made 

 responsible that no interference with the judges of 

 election, or other interruption of good order, shall 

 . cc . ur And anv sheriff, or deputy sheriff, or other 

 civil officer failing to perform with energy and good 

 faith the duty required of him by this order, will, 



upon report made by the judges of the election, be 

 arrested and dealt with by military authority, and 

 punished by fine or imprisonment. 



11. The _ commanding officer of the District of 

 Georgia will issue, through the superintendent of 

 registration for this State, such detailed instructions 

 as may be necessary to the conduct of said election 

 in conformity with the act of Congress. 



12. 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 Georgia, and 

 in accordance with the detailed instructions already 

 referred to. 



13. No person who is a candidate for office at said 

 election shall act as a registrar, judge, inspector, 

 manager, clerk, or in any official capacity connected 

 with conducting the election. 



14. Violence, or threats of violence, or any op- 

 pressive or fraudulent means employed to prevent 

 every person from exercising the right of suffrage, is 

 positively prohibited, and every person guilty of 

 using the same shall, on conviction thereof before a 

 military commission, be punished by fine or other- 

 wise. 



15. No contract or agreement with laborers made 

 for the purpose of controlling their votes, or of re- 

 straining them from voting, will be permitted to be 

 enforced against them in this district. 



By order of Major-General MEADE. 

 E. C. DEUM, Assistant Adjutant-General. 



The following order was issued on the 16th 

 of March : 



General Orders, No. 42. 



All civil officers in this military district are hereby 

 required to obey all the orders issued from these 

 headquarters relating to the performance of their offi- 

 cial duties ; and any officer refusing to obey any such 

 order shall, on conviction thereof before a military 

 commission, be punished by fine or imprisonment, 

 or both. By order of Major-General MEADE. 



E. C. DBUM, Assistant Adjutant-General. 



The great body of the native white citizens 

 of Georgia were opposed to the action of the 

 convention, and determined, so far as their own 

 political influence extended, to prevent the 

 adoption of the constitution. They had -met 

 in convention at Macon, in December, 1867, 

 and organized under the name of the Conser- 

 vative party of Georgia, and had appointed a 

 committee to draw up an address to the people 

 of the State, setting forth the principles of the 

 organization. This address, which was signed 

 by the committee Herschel V. Johnson, Ab- 

 salom H. Ohappell, Benjamin H. Hill, Warren 

 Akin, and T. L. Guerry and published in the 

 early part of January, took strong ground 

 against the whole course of the national Gov- 

 ernment in its treatment of the Southern 

 States since the close of the civil war. The 

 reconstruction acts were characterized as cruel 

 and unjust, and intended to lead to the su- 

 premacy in the South of the negro race under 

 the guidance and control of adventurers from 

 the Northern States. "In making this earnest 

 protest against being placed, by force, under 

 negro dominion," say the committee, "we dis- 

 avow all feeling of resentment toward that 

 unfortunate race. As we are destined to live 

 together, we desire harmony and friendship 

 between them and ourselves ; as they are made 



