This board, having the custody of the list of registered voters in the
district for which it is constituted, must see that the name of the
person offering to vote is found upon the registration list, and if such
proves to be the fact it is the duty of the board to receive his vote if
then qualified by residence. They can not receive the vote of any person
whose name is not upon the list, though he may be ready to take the
registration oath, and although he may satisfy them that he was unable
to have his name registered at the proper time, in consequence of
absence, sickness, or other cause.
The board can not enter into any inquiry as to the qualifications of
any person whose name is not on the registration list, or as to the
qualifications of any person whose name is on that list..
Concurred in unanimously.
18. The mode of voting is provided in the act to be by ballot. The board
will keep a record and poll book of the election, showing the votes,
list of voters, and the persons elected by a plurality of the votes cast
at the election, and make returns of these to the commanding general of
the district.
Concurred in unanimously.
19. The board appointed for registration and for superintending the
elections must take the oath prescribed by the act of Congress approved
July 2, 1862, entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office."
Concurred in unanimously.
IN CABINET, _June 20, 1867_.
Present: The same Cabinet officers as on the 18th, except the Acting
Secretary of the Interior.
The President announced to the Cabinet that after full deliberation he
concurred with the majority upon the sections of the summary upon which
the Secretary of War expressed his dissent, and that he concurred with
the Cabinet upon those sections approved by unanimous vote; that as it
appeared the military commanders entertained doubts upon the points
covered by the summary, and as their action hitherto had not been
uniform, he deemed it proper, without further delay, to communicate in
a general order[27] to the respective commanders the points set forth
in the summary.
[Footnote 27: See Executive order of June 20, 1867, pp. 552-556.]