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 names so reported to be erased from the registry list, and no person whose name is so erased shall vote at that election.

. Be it further enacted, etc., That the mayors of the cities of New Orleans and Jefferson are hereby prohibited from appointing commissioners or (thair) [other] officers to hold or conduct any election whatever, and from doing any act toward the holding or conducting of any election.

Any mayor who shall do any act contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than three months, and by a fine of not less than three hundred dollars. Any citizen may prosecute any person violating this section.

Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be unlawful for the sheriffs of the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard, or either of them, to appoint any deputies to conduct or in any manner to interfere with the elections in said parishes, or to station any deputies or their officers at any poll or voting place or at any office of registration, for the purpose of receiving or carrying the ballot boxes, or to do any act toward conducting the elections, or toward maintaining or preserving the peace on the day of election. The whole care of the peace and order of the cities of New Orleans, Jefferson and Carrollton, and in the parishes of Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard, on the days of election, shall be in the charge of the Metropolitan Police, subject to the orders of the Governor.

Any sheriff who shall do any act contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be removed from office, and be imprisoned for less than three months, and be fined not less than three hundred dollars. Any citizen may prosecute any person violating the provisions of this section.

Be it further enacted, etc., That immediately upon the close of the polls on the day of election, the commissioners of election at each poll or voting place shall seal the ballot box by pasting slips of paper over the key hole and the opening in the top thereof, and fastening the same with sealing wax on which they shall impress a seal, and they shall write the names of the commissioners on the said slips of paper; they shall forthwith convey the ballot box so sealed to the office of, and deliver said ballot box to the supervisor of registration for the parish, who shall keep his office open for that purpose from the hour of the close of the election until all the votes from the several polls or voting places of the precinct shall have been received and counted. The supervisor of registration shall immediately upon the receipt of said ballot box note its condition and the state of the seals and fastenings thereof, and shall then in the presence of the commissioners of election and three citizens freeholders of the parish for such poll or voting place, open the ballot box and count the ballots therein, and make a list of all the names of the persons and offices voted for, the number of votes for each person, the number of ballots in the box, and the number of ballots rejected, and the reason therefor. Said statement shall be made in triplicate, and each copy thereof shall be signed and sworn to by the commissioners of election of the poll and by the supervisor of registration. As soon as the supervisor of registration shall have made