methods of registration. When it reached me officially I began

measures for carrying out its provisions, and on the 28th of March

issued an order to the effect that no elections for the State,

parish, or municipal officers would be held in Louisiana until the

provisions of the laws of Congress entitled "An act to provide for

the more efficient government of the rebel States," and of the act

supplemental thereto, should have been complied with. I also

announced that until elections were held in accordance with these