Arkansas Civil Rights Legislation

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Arkansas Civil Rights Legislation
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1873-01-23
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: legislation (declaration of laws)
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Arkansas Civil Rights Amendment approved January 23, 1873.
Civil Rights -- Voter Registration -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Reconstruction -- Little Rock
Section 4. No clerk of any county shall have discretion or power to refuse to en- ter the name of any adult male person in said registration book applying as afore- said for registration, who will first take and subscribe the oath required by law to entitle the citizens of this state to vote, and any clerk so refusing shall pay, or his sure- ties on his official bond shall be liable to each and every applicant, for each and every such refusal, the sum of two hun- dred dollards, to be recovered by an action of debt when said applicant establishes that, at the time he was so refused, he was a qualified voter in said county, and in addition therto, upon conviction before a proper court, shall be imprisoned six months in county jail. Section 5. Any and all persons here- tofore registered, and who may hereafter register under the provisions of this act, shall be and continue qualified voters in all elections by citizens of this state as long as he shall be an continue a citizen of the county in which he is registered, without order or further application on the part of said registered voter, or other or further registration by said clerk and ex-officio registrar. Section 6. Any person who shall swear falsely, on making application to register under this act, shall be deemed guilty of willful and corrupt perjury, and, on conviction thereof, shall be pun- ished as provided by law for the punish- ment of perjury. Section 7. Each and every person, whose name shall be registered under the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to receive at the time, from said clerk and ex officio registrar, a certificate setting forth the name of the county and state, and of the applicant, and the date of such registration, sealed with the seal of said county; and, for each certificate and seal, the clerk and ex officio registrar shall be allowed a fee of ten cents, to be paid out of the county treasury. Section 8. The county clerk and ex officio registrar of each county in this state shall also provide a well bound book, in which shall be printed the oath prescribed in section five, under the head of “fran- chise.” Section 9. Each clerk and ex-officio reg- Istrar shall have power to administer the said oath to any person applying for reg- istration. Section 10. If any clerk shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or refuse or willfully neglect to perform any duty herein imposed upon him, or make any alteration in the list of voters made by him, or suffer the same to be made by any person, he shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dol- lars, to be recovered by indictment, and thereafter shall be disqualified to hold any office of honor, trust or profit in this state. Section 11. Whoever shall destroy or mutilate, deface, or take by violence from any clerk of the county court, or from any judges of election, or steal and take away any book of registration or list of voters required by this act to be made or kept, shall, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years. Section 12. That any person offering or threatening violence to any one en- gaged in the duty of registration, or dis- turbing or resisting them in any way in the performance of their duty, or who shall willfully keep away by intimidation, bribery, imposition, deceit or fraud, or see, or exert other improper or illegal in- fluences to prevent or hinder electors from going to the place of registration, or from registering, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the jail or penitentiary house of the state, for the term of not less than one, nor more than five years. Section 13. The said list no deposited with the clerk shall be subject to examin- ation as other records of said court, but no such examination by any person not officially connected with the court shall be allowed, except in the presence of said clerk or his deputy. Section 14. It shall be the duty of said clerk to make out, in well-bound books, a list of the voters so registered for each township in his county, thirty days before such election, and immediately deliver the same to the sheriff, who shall deliver them to one of the judges of election of each township in his county, five days before each election in his county. Section 15. That all acts and parts of ___ in conflict with the provisions of this not be , and the same are hereby repealed. Section 16. That this act take effect and be in force from and after its pas- sage.
Metadata URL:: http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/800
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Original Collection:: Arkansas Gazette
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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