The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-08-30
HEADQUARTERS, DEPT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, I
HILTON HEAD. g. c., July %, 1865.

HEADQUARTERS, DEPT OF SOUTH CAROLINA,l
HILTON HEAD. s. c., July 29, 1865. !
GENERAL ORDERS, No. 0.l
TT IS ANNOUNCED FOR THE INFORMATION AND
government of this command that BENJAMIN F.
President Provisional Governor of the State Of South
Carolina with authority and Instructions at the earliest
practicable period, to prescribe such rules and regula
tons may be necessary ana proper for convening
Convention composed OF delegates to be chosen by that
portion of the people of said State who loyal the
amending the Constitution thereof; and with author
ity to exercise, within tho 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 to its
Constitutional relations tho Federal Government and
to present such Republican form OF State Government
will entie the State to the guarantee of the United
States therefor, and its people to protection by tho
United States against invasion insurrection and demes
tic violence; Provided that in any election that may
hereafter be held for choosing delegates to any State
Convention aforesaid, person shall be qualified as
dn eector shall be eligible member Of such Con-
vention. unless he shall have previously taken SUBJ
scribed the oath Of amnesty set forth in the Pes
dents Proclamation Of May 2ath A. D. 1866 and is
voter qualified prescribed by the Constitution and
Laws Of the State Of South Carolina in force Immediately
before the seventeenth Q7thl day of November A. D.
1860. the date OF the socaed Ordinance of secession
and the said Convention, when convened or the Legis-
lature that may he thereafter assembled will prescribe
the qualification of electors. and the eligibility of per-
TO- hold Office under the Constitution and laws Of
the State power the people Of the several States
posing the Federal Union have ghtflly exercised nom
tie origin Of the Government to .he present time -
I is therefore ordered that sl officers and other per-
Tho ITxikaa Qkokoa
State OF South Carolina aid and assist Governor PERRY
In carrying into effect the foregoing Instructions and
they onjoned 70 abstain from in any way hinder
ing, impeding, dscouraging the loyal people of the
State from the organization Of State Government as
herenabove authorized and directed.
All orders and instructions In operation through.
out this Department. whether cinanating from these
Headquarters from Headquarters Department of the
SOUTH that are not inconsistent with the foregoing dis
tnctly specified provisions OF this order, will continue
In force as heretofore throughout the State of South CO.
rolinn. ,.r}E go. II
Every needful facility for taking the Amnesty Oath
will be afforded by the Military authorities. ON forms
heretofore supplied for that purpose .,.i- =
Hereafter Provost Marshals and Assistant Provost
Marshals will constitute the only Military Officers
titled to administer the Amnesty Oath, certified copy
OF which w In oil cases, be furnished to the individual
taking It, The original oshs will be transmitted, somi
monthly, by the officer administering the same. to the
Provost MarshalGepeal at these Headquarters by
whom they viii be recorded In book for that purpose,
and then forwarded to the Secretary of State
Persons applying fof Executive clemcncy will send
their petition with cciaed copy Of the Amnesty Oath
attached to the President through the Provisional Co
vernon at Greenriiie. sohth Carolina ~
:. By command OF Maiot. General Q. At GILIMonE.
W. L. M. BURGER,
Assistant Acknowledgement.
Official. n rapf ~ n lctipo
Assistant Adiutant General, AuguatH