diction thereof, and have been a resident of the State of Louisi- since the day of day of for any of the causes stated in the first paragraph of article ninety-nine of the constitution of this State. And I do further solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I did not hold any office, civil or military, for one year or more under the organization styled "The Confederate States of America;" that I never registered myself as an enemy of the United States; that I never acted as leader of guerilla bands during the late rebellion; that I never, in the advocacy of treason, wrote or published newspaper articles or preached sermons during the late rebellion; that I never voted for and signed an ordinance of secession in any State. certificates. The last paragraph of the above affidavit shall be dispensed with, where the person applying for registration shall produce Recantation and exhibit to the registrar or supervisor, the certificate of the secretary of State, showing that he has relieved himself from the disability contained in the clauses of said affidavit, by voluntarily writing and signing a certificate setting forth that he acknowledges the late rebellion to have been morally and politically wrong, and that he regrets any aid and comfort he may have given it, and showing that such certificate has been filed in the office of the secretary of State, and been published in the official journal, as is required by article ninety-nine of the constitution, and the act of this general assembly prescribing the requisite forms of such certificate, and the registry and publication thereof; and if the party applying for registration has lost or mislaid such certificate of the secretary of State, he shall be required to take and subscribe, in lieu thereof, the following affidavit : I, - do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I have voluntarily written and signed a certificate setting forth Form of oath. that I acknowledge the late rebellion to have been morally and politically wrong, and that I regret any aid and comfort that Í may have given it, and that I have caused such certificate to be filed in the office of the secretary of State, and that it has been published in the official journal, according to the requirements of article ninetynine of the constitution, and according to the forms required by this general assembly, and that I have either lost or mislaid the certificate of the secretary of State showing the above facts. other evidence. Taking and subscribing the affidavits required by the preceding part of this section, shall not prevent the registrars or supervisors Supervisors from receiving other evidence, showing that the party applying for may require registration is not entitled to register, and they shall have a right to examine, under oath, to be administered by themselves or other competent authority, any witness to prove any fact pertinent to the right of any one to register, and shall decide from the evidence whether the party so applying is entitled to register. Subject to appeal to the board of registration, which board shall have power to hear and determine such appeals. Form of oath for those re If any person applying to register claims to be relieved from the lieved in con- disabilities contained in the second clause of the aforesaid affidavit, under the proviso to article ninety-nine of the constitution, he shall be required to take and subscribe the following affidavit : sequence of favoring reconstruction laws. Penalty for false swearing. Powers and duties of commissioners to preserve order. Penalty for creating disturbance at election. made out in triplicate. I, — -, do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that, prior to the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixtyeight, I favored the execution of the laws of the United States, popularly known as the reconstruction acts of Congress, and openly and actively assisted the loyal men of the State, in their efforts to restore Louisiana to her position in the Union. Any person who shall swear falsely to any of the foregoing affidavits, or any clause thereof, shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished as prescribed by law. D. Sec. 3201. Act 1868, p. 65, § 5; Act 1870, No. 99, p. 132; Act 1872, No. 98, p. 15; Act 1873, No. 19, p. 56; Act 1874, No. 127, p. 227. Sec. 889. The commissioners of election shall preserve order and decorum at the election, and shall have power to commit to prison, any disorderly person for a term not to extend beyond the hour of closing the polls, provided he be permitted to vote before being imprisoned. Any person or persons who shall obstruct, hinder, or by violence or threats of violence, abusive language, or other species of intimidation, interfere with a supervisor of registration or commissioner of election, or with any person or persons duly appointed to execute the orders of the supervisor of registration or commissioner of election, in the discharge of their duties, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, nor less than one month. D. Sec. 1385. Act 1868, p. 218. Sec. 890. It shall be the duty of said supervisor of registration Returns to be in each parish, to make out triplicate returns, to forward one of them immediately by mail to the secretary of State, and another to the secretary of State by the next most speedy mode of conveyance, and to deposit the third in the office of the clerk of the district court, and in the city of New Orleans, in the office of the clerk of the first district court; and for his willful failure or neglect herein, such supervisor shall, upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court. Punishments in unlawful acts. D. Sec. 1403, 3528. Sec. 891. Any person or persons who shall counsel, aid, connive of accessories at, abet, encourage or participate in any riots, tumults or acts of violence, or armed disturbance at or near the office of any board of registration, in any district or parish, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding two years, nor less than six months. D. Sec. 1387. transfer and Sec. 892. Any person or persons who shall purchase, or cause to be purchased, the registration papers or certificate of registra- Fraudulent tion of any person duly registered according to law, shall be deemed purchase of guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by registration a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not less than one year, nor more than three years. D. Sec. 1388. papers. illegal voting. Sec. 893. Any person who shall knowingly, willfully and corruptly vote, or attempt to vote, on any false or fraudulent paper or Penalty for certificate of registration, or upon any paper or certificate of registration issued to a person other than the one voting, or attempting to vote on said paper or certificate of registration, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not less than one year, nor more than three years. D. Sec. 1389. legal registra Sec. 894. Any person who shall willfully and knowingly register or cause to be registered, his name, or that of any other Penalty for ilperson, as a legal voter in violation of law, or willfully and know- tion. ingly vote, or induce or cause another to vote in violation of the laws, or of the constitutional provisions in such cases made and provided, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period not less than one year, nor more than three years. D. Sec. 1390. tered person Sec. 895. No person shall be permitted to vote at any election No unregisto be held in this State, who has not been duly registered as a shall vote. qualified voter in accordance with law. D. Sec. 1391. bribery, etc. Sec. 896. Any person who shall induce by offer of reward, by threats of violence, or otherwise, any person to knowingly, will- Penalty for fully and corruptly vote, or attempt to vote, on any false or fraudulent papers or certificate of registration, or upon any papers or certificate of registration belonging to a person other than the one voting, or attempting to vote on said papers or certificate of registration, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a period not exceeding three years, nor less than one year. D. Sec. 1392. weapons. Sec. 897. Any person found guilty of carrying concealed weapons on the day of election, shall be fined two hundred and Concealed fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than six months, nor more than one year; Provided, That the provisions of this section shall Provided. Closing of drinking sa not apply to persons authorized by law to keep the peace; and, be it further provided, that one-half of the fines shall go to the informer, and that the other half shall go to the school fund. D. Sec. 915, 1393. Sec. 898. The supervisor of registration, or commissioners of election, shall have authority on the day of election to close all loons. drinking-saloons, dram-shops, groggeries, or places where liquor is sold by the glass or bottle, situated within a radius of two miles of any poll or place of election. And said supervisor or commissioners shall have the power to call on any sheriff, constable or police officer, to enforce this regulation. ers may arrest for neglect of duty. If such sheriff, constable, or police officer shall refuse to obey Commission- any order issued under the authority of this section, the commissheriff, etc., sioner or supervisor giving the order shall have power summarily to arrest and imprison such sheriff, constable or police officer, such imprisonment not to extend beyond the hour of closing the polls. And such sheriff, constable or police officer shall be deemed neglect of du- guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term not to exceed six months, nor less than three months, and by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars. Penalty for ty. Penalty for D. Sec. 1216, 1395, 3609. Sec. 899. In cases where any oath or affirmation shall be administered by any supervisor of registration or commissioner of false swearing. election, any person swearing or affirming falsely in the premises, shall be subjected to the penalties provided by law for perjury. Elector may be required to D. Sec. 1396. Sec. 900. Any voter shall have the right to require that any person attempting to vote, shall be put on his oath and made to take an oath. declare whether he has not voted in another precinct, and in case such person should make a false oath, he shall be subjected to the penalties provided by law for perjury. Penalty for conducting gally. D. Sec. 1897. Sec. 901. Any civil officers or other persons who shall assume or pretend to act in any capacity as officers of election, to receive elections ille- or count votes, or to do any other acts toward the holding or conducting of elections in violation of, or contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term not to exceed three years, nor less than one year, and by a fine not exceeding three hundred, nor less than one hundred dollars. Penalty for D. Sec. 1415. Sec. 902. Any planter, manager, overseer, or other employer discharging of laborers in this State, who shall, previous to the expiration of laborers on ac- the term of service of any laborer in their employ, or under their ical opinions. control, discharge from their employ any laborer or laborers on ac count of polit count of their political opinions, or who shall attempt to control the suffrages or votes of such laborers, by any contract or agreement pay a whatever, entered into at any time with such laborers, shall D. Sec. 1163. Act 1868, p. 64. EMBEZZLEMENT AND BREACH OF TRUST. ment of public Sec. 903. Any officer of this State, or any other person who shall convert to his own use, in any way whatever, or shall use by Embezzleway of investment in any kind of property or merchandise, or shall money. loan, with or without interest, or use in any other manner than as directed by law, any portion of public money which he is authorized to collect, or which may be intrusted to safe keeping or disbursement, or for any other purpose, shall be guilty of an embezzlement of the same. The neglect or refusal to pay over, on demand, any public money in his hands, in manner required by law, shall be prima facie evidence of its conversion and embezzlement; and any officer or other person, and all persons advising, or knowingly and willfully participating in such embezzlement, shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine equal to the amount of money embezzled, besides restoring the same; and shall be imprisoned at hard labor, not less than six months, nor more than five years. D. Sec. 2459. Act 1855, p. 130. Penalty for Sec. 904. The provisions and penalties of the preceding section, shall extend to all officers or other persons, their aiders and abettors, embezzling who shall embezzle the funds belonging to any parish or incor- the funds of porated city, with the collection, safe keeping or disbursement of city. which they may be intrusted or. charged. D. Sec. 2460. any parish or Embezzlement Sec. 905. Any servant, clerk, broker, agent, consignee, trustee, attorney, mandatary, depositary, common carrier, bailee, curator, End breach of testamentary executor, administrator, tutor, or any person holding trust. any office, or trust under the executive or judicial authority of this State, or in the service of any public or private corporation or company, who shall wrongfully use, dispose of, conceal or otherwise embezzle any money, bill, note, check, order, draft, bond, receipt, bill of lading, or any other property which he shall have received for another, or for his employer, principal or bailor, or by virtue of his office, trust or employment, or which shall have been intrusted to his care, keeping or possession by another, or by his |