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For repairing roads, five hundred dollars; Appropriation for Military For furniture for soldiers' hospital, one hundred dollars; Academy.

For grading, draining, and improving the artillery and cavalry drill

ground, two thousand dollars;

For contingencies for superintendent, one thousand dollars.

And hereafter, in addition to the other members of the board of visit- Addition to

ors to be appointed by the President, according to existing law, to attend board of vi

the annual examination of cadets at the United States Military Academy, there shall be on every such board two senators to be designated by Senators and

the Vice-President or President pro tempore of the Senate; and three

members of the House of Representatives to be designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, such designations respectively to be

made at the session of Congress next preceding the time of such examination; and the senators and members so appointed shall make full re- Report.

port of their action as such visitors, with their views and recommendations in regard to the said Military Academy, within twenty days after

the meeting of Congress, at the session next succeeding the time of their

appointment.

APPROVED, February 21, 1870.

CHAP. XIX.--An Act to admit the State of Miisissippi to Representation in the Feb. 23, 1870.

Congress of the United States.

I WHEREAS the people of Mississippi have framed and adopted a consti- Preamble.

tution of State government which is republican; and whereas the

legislature of Mississippi elected under said constitution has ratified

the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Constitution of the

X United States; and whereas the performance of these several acts in

|good faith is a condition precedent to the representation of the State in

i Congress: therefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

States of America in Congress assembled, That the said State of Missis- Mississippi de- lhired entitled to sippi is entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States: representation it

Provided, That before any member of the legislature of said State shall Congress.

take or resume his seat, or any officer of said State shall enter upon the StMeabereis of

duties of his office, he shall take and subscribe, and file in the office of ture and State

the secretary of state of Mississippi, for permanent preservation, an officials to take

ioath or affirmation in the form following: "I, -- , do solemnly bone of o o

i swear (or affirm) that I have never taken an oath as a member of Con- Oaths,formof;

D gress, or as an officer of' the United States, or as a member of any State

I legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support

the Constitution of' the United States, and afterward engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the

enemies thereof, so help me God"; or under the pains and penalties of

perjury, (as the case may be ;) or such person shall in like manner take,

I subscribe, and file the following oath or affirmation: " I, - -,

do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have, by act of Congress of the

United States, been relieved from the disabilities imposed upon me by

the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, so

}help me God "; or under the pains and penalties of perjury, (as the case

'may be ;) which oaths or affirmations shall be taken befbre and certified before whom

by any officer lawfully authorized to administer oaths. And any person

who shall knowingly swear or affirm falsely in taking' either of' such Perjury in tak- ing either oath, oaths or affirmations shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and shall be how punished.

punished therefor by imprisonment not less than one year, and not more

than ten years, and shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars,

and not more than ten thousand dollars. And in all trials for any Certificate of

;violation of this act, the certificate of the taking of either of said oaths be evidence.

or affirmations, with proof of the signature of the party accused, shall

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be taken and held as conclusive evidence that such oath or affirmation

was regularly and lawfully administered by competent authority: And

Neglect for provided further, That every such person who shall neglect for the period

thirty dys to of thirty days next after the passage of this act to take, subscribe, and t &c ke, tiho

oath, to vacate file such oath.or affirmation as aforesaid, shall be deemed and taken, to

office. all intents and purposes, to have vacated his office: And provided further,

Fundamelntal That the State of Mississippi is admitted to representation in Congress

conditions of the ciiisions of te as one of the States of the Union, upon the fbllowing fundamental con1ississippi to ditions: First, That the constitution of Mississippi shall never be so representation amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the

ill Congress No citizcSl or United States of the right to vote who are entitled to vote by the con- class to be de- stitution herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as prived ori edofrilteto ofright toare are now now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly

convicted under laws equally applicable to all the inhabitants of said

State: Provided, That any alteration of said constitution, prospective

in its effects, may be made in regard to the time and place of residence

or to hold of- of voters. Second, That it shall never be lawful for the said State to

fice on account deprive any citizen of the United States, on account of his race, color,

of race or color previous condition of servitude, of the right to hold office under the

constitution and laws of' said State, or upon any such ground to require

of him any other qualifications for office than such as are required of' all

or of school other citizens. Third, That the constitution of Mississippi shall never rights and privi- be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens

ege of the United States of the school rights and privileges secured by the

constitution of said State.

APPrOVED, February 23, 1870.

Feb. 24, 1S70. CIIAP. XX. -An Act 7aaking Appnopri tions to suply Deficiencies in the Appropria-

-lions for thle navral Stervic e r the Year rloding June thirtieth, eifghteen hundred and

seventy, and for other l'ur)osrs.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

Appropriation States of America in Congress assembled, That the fbllowing sums be, and

for deficicies the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the

it thie naval serice n

a v . sr- treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the naval service fbr the year ending June thirtieth,

eighteen hundred and seventy, namely:

Bureau of For the bureau of steam engineeering, five hundred thousand dolsteamn engineer- lare.

oi colstruc.- For the bureau of construction and repairs, one million five huntion and repairs. dred thousand dollars; and the following amounts of' unexpended balCertain lll ances are hereby covered into the treasury, viz.: Of the unexpended

peuled bIalancelo balance standing to theI credit of the bureau of provisions and clothing,

covered into the one million four lhundred thousand dollars ; of tire balance to the credit

trelaury. of the bureau of equipment and recruiting, three hundred and ninetynine thousand dollars; of' the balance to the credit of the bureau of

navigation, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ; and of the balance

to tile credit of the bureau of yards and docks, nine hundred and fiftyone thousand dollars.

And these sums shall be covered in and restored to the treasury,

whether they stand to the credit of said bureaus in the proper books of

the Treasurer of the United States, or have been placed to any other

account, or are under the control of any officer or agent of the Navy

Appropriations Department: Provided, That the money so appropriated shall be exhow to be ex- pended only for the purpose of providing materials, carrying on the

pended. peded work, and paying the employ6s of the bureaus for which it is appropriated.

APPROVED, February 24, 1870.

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