The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-08-31
HBeadq'rs Dept of S. C.,

"' hhhu' o. ", July ~, Ioo0.
General Order No. 0.
lis announced, for the information
l. and government of this command,
that BENJAMIN Il. FERRY, of South
Carolina, has been appointed by the
President, Provisional Governor'of the
State of South Carolina, without au.
thority and instructions. "at the earliest
practicable period, to prescribe such
rules and regulations as may be necessa.
ry and proper for convening a Conven.
ton, composed of delegates to be chosen
by that portion Of the people of said
State who are loyal to the United
States, and no others, for the purpose of
altering or amending the Constitution
thereof; and with authority to exercise,
within the limits of said State, all the
powers necessary and proper to enable
such loyal people Of the State of South
Carolina to restore said State toits consti.
tutional relations to the Federal Govern.
ment, and to present such n Republican
form of State Government as will enti-
tie the State to the guarantee of the
United States therefor, and its people to
protection by the United States against
invasion, insurrection and domestic vic.
lence,; provided that in any election
that may hereafter be held for choosing
delegates to any State Convention as
aforesaid, no person shall be qualified as
an elector, or shall be eligible as mem.
Der of such Convention, unless he shall
have previously taken and subscribed
the oath Of amnesty, as set forth in the
Presidents proclamation Of May 20, A.
ID. 1866, and is voter qualified as pro.
scribed by the Constitution and laws of
the State of South Carolina i'll force i'm.
mediately before the seventh t17th) day
of November, a. d. 1860, the date Of
the so.called Ordinance, Of Secession :;
and the sand Convention, when conven.
ed, or the Legislature that may be
thereafter assembled, will prescribe the
qualification of electors, and the eiigibili.
ty of persons to hold office under the
Constitution and laws of the State, a
power the people Of the several States
composing the Federal Union have
rightfully exercised from the origin of
the Government to the present time"
tits therefore, ordered, that all officers
and other persons in the United States
military service, within the State of
South Carolina, aid and assist Governor
Perry. in carrying into effect the forego.
ing instructions, and they are enjoined
to abstain from, in any way, hindering,
impeding or discouraging the loyal peo.
pie of the State from the organization of
State Government. as hereinabove au.
thorized and directed.
All ordeS and instructions now in
operation throughout this Department,
whether cmanating from these hcadquar.
ters, or from Headquarters Department
of the South, that are not inconsistent
with the foregoing distinctly specified
provisions OF this ORDER will continue in
force as heretofore, throughout the State
of South Carolina.
Every needful facility for taking the
amnes'~ oath will be afforded by the
military authorities, on forms heretofore
supplied for that purpose.
Hereafter Provost Marshals and AS.
sistant Provost Marshals will constitute
the only military officers entitled to ad-
minister the amnesty oath, certified
copy of which will, in all cases, be fur
nished to the individual taking it. The
original oaths will be transmitted, semi.
monthly. by the officer administering the
same to the Provost Marshal General at
these Headquarters, by whom they will
be recorded in book kept for that pur.
pose, and then forwarded to the Secre.
tary ofState.
Persons applying for Executive elem.
ency will send their petition with GER.
titled copy of the Amnesty Oath at.
tached, tothe President, through the Pro.
visional Governor at Greenville, So. Ca.
BY command of Major General @. A.
GILLMoRE.
w. L. M. BURGER, A. A. G..
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