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‘PAGE THREE TWO GROUPS OF NEGROES, TOTALING SIX, ACCOMPANIED BY COFO WORKERS, APPEARED AT NESHOBA COUNTY COURTHOUSE AM THIS DATE. THEY WERE ADVISED BY DEPUTY SHERIFF CECIL RAY PRICE THAT THE CIRCUIT JUDGE HAD ISSUED AN ORDER THAT VOTER REGISTRATION WAS CLOSED AS LONG AS THE CIRCUIT COURT WAS IN SESSION. HE EXPLAINED THIS WAS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE CIRCUIT COURT CLERK WHO HANDLES VOTER REGISTRATION. POTENTIAL REGISTRANTS LEFT THE | cour mmouse STEPS WITHOUT INCIDENT. ON HAND WERE CITY POLICE, DEPUTY SHERIFF PRICE, NESHOBA COUNTY AUXILIARY POLICE, AND MISS. HIGHWAY SAFETY PATROLMWEN. “IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING VOTER REGISTRATION ATTEMPT BY COFO WORKERS AND SIX NEGROES AT NESHOBA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, Qi | CRM te ePHontcauiy COMPLAINED TO BUAGENT AT PHILADELPHIA, CETTE || THAT THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THOSE ATTEMPTING TO REGISTER <3 V\ aay BEEN DENIED WHEN THEY VERE DENIED ENTRANCE TO THE COURTHOUSE AND STATED HE-QUOTE’ WOULD LIKE SOME TYPE OF ACTION TAKEN BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’ ENS-aUOTE. b7¢ GERM continueD THAT HE WAS NOT FURNISHED WITH A COPY OF THE COURT ORDER, AND STATED THAT Coro aTToRNEy (ED vas BEING DIRECTED TO THE CLERK OF COURTS OFFICE TO SECURE SAME. b7¢. ON SEPT. TWENTYONE, INSTANT, DEPUTY SHERIFF PRICE AND COUNTY ATTORNEY RAYFORD JONES ADVISED BUAGENTS THAT QMMMMBCAME To j cures COURT CLERKS OFFICE AND DEMANDED A COPY OF THE ORDER, WHICH WE WAS DENIED, BUT WHICH WAS READ TO HIM. A COPY OF THE ORDER 4 WAS DENIED, INASMUCH AS THESE MUST BE OBTAINED BY ORDER OF THE CIRCUIT JUDGE, WHO HAD DEPARTED FOR LUNCH. 57¢ END PAGE THREE lu