The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-01-09

70 the provisional Government hereby es-
tabilshed, and such laws AS Congress may
from time to time prescribe; and until the
people Of such Districts shall be willing to
form State Government in conformity
with the provisions Of this act, it shall be
lawful for, and the duty of the President.
whenever he shall be satisfied that the lov-
Al electors Of said District number ten per
cent OF the entire voting population OF 1860,
and that they are willing to torn such u
State Government, to direct the Provision
~ Governor 10 order another election, as
prescribed in this act, for delegates to
constitutional Convention; and said Con-
ventiOn. when So elected and convened
shall proceed as hereinbeiore provided to
form Constitution OF State Government.
SEC 9. ind be { farther enacted, That
the District Courts OF the United States, in
the several districts wherein n Provisional
Military Governor is authorized hy THIS
act 10 be appointed, shall have general
jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, 50
long as the Provisional Governor cCntin-
ues in Office, OF all eases whereof the State
courts OF such States had cognizanee, nc
cording 10 the laws in force therein on the
day when such state renounced its cbedi-
encc 70 the Constitution OF the United
States: and said laws, and the laws
OF the United States not inconsistent
with the provisions OF this act, shall
courts in said districts, until u State gov
ernnent bc formed and recognized as pre-
scribed 10y this act froplded, that all laws,
judicial decisions, or lsageS of said States,
which recognize or sustain Slavery, or
which exclude the testimony Of colOred
persons, or which deny them, the right of
trial by Jury, or punish persons who may
teach them to read and write, or which au-
thorize the riting of the United States
mails, or abridge the freedom Of speech or
OF the press, shall be utterly void in the
courts OF the United States within said
districts; jToriGed, further, that all loval
electors who vote IT the first election for
delegates to the aforesaid Convention shall
lie qualified 10 serve rs grand or petit ju-
rt - the district III which they reside,
ti4gi none other.
tg 10. -4nd u Il .,trthcr enacted, That
all persons held 10 service or labor in he
States declared by The preamble to be in
rebellion shall re, and they are hereby.
discharged from such service or labor, and
tney and their prosperity shall be forever
free, and if any such persons, shall be de-
prived of their freedom under pretense of
any claim to service or labor, the Courts
or Judges of the United States shall, on
hdbeds corpus, discharge such person.
SEC. ii. ind DC it further enacted, That
If any person, or the posterity of any such
persons, as have been or may be freed by
I'll dCt w NoHSIeSS OF pTOciaulatiOn Oh tne
President, shall be deprived of liberty un
der any claim to the service or labor OF
such person, or shall be sued and arrested
on claim of Indebtedness in the nat ure of
peonage, the person Sc attempting to de-
prlve OF their freedom any such liberated
slave, or their posterity, shall be guilty of
mlsGemeanOr, and on conviction thereof
before any court of competent jurisdiction,
be fined in any sum not less than fifteen
hundred dollars. nor more than five thou
sand dollars, and be imprisoned in the pen
itentiary not less than five nor more than
twenty years.
SEC. II. ind be it further enacted, That
the President may, 10y proclamation, until
Congress shall otherwise direct, establish
or discontinue such ports Of entry or deliv-
cry as he may deem necessary, within the
jurisdiction OF any Provisional Govern
ment authorized by this act, and appoint
Collectors and all other needed officers now
for other ports in like manner appointed.
he may also appoint, or authorize the APP
pOintment, of such other officers MS are us
ual in such ports; and all such officers
shall have the same power, and discharge
such duties as like officers in other ports of
the United States. The Collector for each
port, and all subordinate officers, shall re-
celve the same compensation heretofore al
lowed such officers within said districts
prior 10 the Rebellion, and all provisions
of law relating to other ports OF entry in
the United States shall be applied, so far as
practicable, to the ports hereby authorized.
SEC. l3. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
all acts, and parts Of acts. inconsistent with
the provisions of this act, within the dis
tricts ofcountry hereby organized into Pro-
visional Governments, be and the same are
hereby repealed.