The Columbia daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-06-30
CoLUMBIA.
Friday Morning, June 80, 1865.
Holden's Proclamation in North
Carolina.

Carolina.
w. w. Holden, Provisional Governor Of
North Carolina, issues his proclamation,
da&d at Raleigh on the 18th day of June,
to the people OF his State, announcing in
detail the processes for the reconstruction
OF the State and It's restoration to its posi-
tion in the Union. lie proclaiu,s con-
vcntion of the people of North Carolina,
to be held as early rs possible, 20 be COM
posed Of the Same number Of members rs
that of the two houses Of the State Legis-
lature No one can be member of this
convention who has not taken the oath of
loyalty to the United States, and no per-
son not we'll affected, as we'll as loyal, is
to be permitted to take this oath or to vote
in the election Of members. None Of the
classes excluded from thS benefits Of the
amnesty will be suffered to take the oath,
save on the exhibition OF full pardon
frou. tho President. The convention, when
assembled, will alter or amend the cpns:i-
luton of the State. which rs then to be
subml,ted to the voters The convention
will then provide for the election, 10y the
pcoplc, of q Govern or and members cf the
Legislature. and the Legislature will then
elect two Senators 10 represent tue State
in Congress. An election will also be
held, ia due time," for members Of the
House Of Representatives, in Congress.
"And," says the proclamation. ''inasnluch
as there are no civil magistrates in this
State, nor State officers of any kind, the
Provisional Governor, by virtue Of autho
rity in him vested by tie President of the
United States, will proceed
1-st. To appoint justices of the peace for
the various counties, loyal men, by whom
the above oath will be administered, and
who will also conduct the elections, thro
subordinates. for members of conven-
ton, in accordance with instructions from
this office, and agreeably to the laws of
this State in force previously to the Goth
day of May 1861.
ID. Superior Courts of Oyer ard Termi-
ner will be held. when necessary, by judg. s
specially appointed and commissioned 10
dispose of criminal cases
3D. The Justices of the peace appointed
as aforesaid, will be authorized to hold
courts fer the transaction of all such busi-
ness as may not be OF the class of cases
triable by q jury. The justices, by a ma
;ority OF their whole number, will also be
authorized to appoint their sherlffs and
their clerks for the time being, and such
other officers as may be indispensable to u
proper transaction Of business. And they
will also be vigant and Will exert them
selves to maintain the laws and to pro-
mote the peace of society in their respect
i've counties; and especially to arrest and
commit for trial, when the courts may be
held, all offenders against any law of the
State in force previous to the Goth of Nav,
1861; and to allow bal. where the case is
baiIablc, according to the usage of the
State.
1tl. The Provisional Governor Will
appoint the State directors and State
proxies lin the various corporations in
which the State is Interested, as the exer.
else of such power by him canpot be
avoided But the control of the railroads,
the asylums and other corporations in
which the State is Interested thus unavoid-
ably TO this extent committed to him, will
he rclinquished for the action of the con-
vention when that body shall have assem-
bled.
Such, in brief, is an outline Of the policy
deemed necessary to reconstruct the GO
verhment of North Carolina, and to restore
the State to its constitutional relations to
the Federal Government.
a great pablo meeting took place in
Augusta Ga, with the view to the resto-