The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-09-02

HEADQUARTERS DEPT OF SOUTH CARDINAL
HILTON HEAD. 8. c., July 20, 1865. J
[GENERAL ORrE,ts. No. o.
IT IL ANNOUNCED FOR THE INFORMATION AND
government of this command, that BENJAMIN F.
President. Provisional Governor the State of South
Carolina with authority and instructions the earliest
practicable period prescribe and regua-
tions may be necessary and proper for convenng
Convention composed Of delegates be chosen by that
portion Of the people of said State who loyal the
United States and Others for the purpose altering
or amending the Constitution thereof and with author
ity to exercise, within the limits Of said State all the
powers necessar! and proper TO enable such loyal peope
of the State of South Carolina TO sad State to it's
Constitutional relaons to the Federal Government and
TO present such republican form Of State Government
will entte the State to the guarantee of the United
sates therefor ind its people to protection by the
United States against invasion insurrecton and domes
ito violence; ProrEcd, that in any election that may
hereafter be held for choosing delegates to any State
Convention as Aforesaid person shall be qualified as
an e1ector or shall be eligible member of such Con-
venon, unless he shall have previously taken and cub
scibed the oath ofamnesty, forth in the Presi
dents Proclamation OF May Goth, A. D. 1865, and is
voter qualified as prescribed by the Constitution and
laws of the State oouth Carolina in force Immediately
before the seventeenth 17th) dny of November A. ID.
1e6o the date Of the socalled Ordinance of Secession
and the said Convention, when convened or the Leps-
iature that may be thereafter assembled will prescribe
the qualification ofelectors and the eligibility of per-
SONS TO hold ofce under the Constitution and laws of
the State power the people Of the several States
posing the Federal Union have rightfuy exercised from
the origin of the Government to the present time,
1t s therefore ordered that all officers other per-
in the United States military service within the
State of South Carolina aid and asast Governor PERRY
In carrying into effect the foregoing Instructions and
they enjoned abhtain from, in any way hinder.
ing impeding or dscouraging the loyal people OF the
State from the organization Of State Government aa
herenRbove authorized and directed
AL orders and Instructions now in operat;on tbror,b
out this Department whether emanatina from these
Headquarters or from Headquarters Department of the
South that arc not with the foregoing dis
tncty specified provisions Of this order win continue
in force as heretofore throughout the State of South On
rolina s..
Every needfu :acility for taking tho Amnesty Oath
viii be afforded by the Military authorities on forms
heretofore supplied for that purpose
Hereafter, Provost Marahals and Ass,stspt provost
Marshas will constitute the only Military ohicers en-
titled to administer the Amnesty Oath, certified copy
Of which will In all cnses, furnished to the
takingit. The original oaths will be transmitted semi
monthly by the officer administering the same, to the
Provost Marshnlaeneral at these Headquarters b.
"nom they will be recorded In book for that purpose
and then Forwarded to the Secretary of State.
persons applying for Executive clemency will send
ther pennon with certified copy of the Amnesty Oath
atached to the fesident through the Provisional 90
vernon at areenville. South Carolina.
BY command Of ofAajos-Geners O. A. GrlMoaE
w. L. M. BURGER,
Asaistant AdjutantG General. ,
Official; 7. d. HoDaEa, capt 2Sth " 8. Q. T., Acting
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