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HEADQUARTERS, DEPT OF SOUTH CAROLINA, |
HILToE BEAD, s. e., July 90, 1866,

HEADQUARTERS, DEPT OF SOUTH CAROLINA
HILTON EEAD, S. e., July 90, 1866. ]
GENERAL ORDERS, No. o.
IT Is ANNOUNCED FOR THE INFORMATION AND
government of this command, that BENJAMIN F.
PERRY of South Carolina, has been appointed, by the
President Provisional Governor Of the State Of South
Carolina with authority and insructons. n the earliest
practicable PERIOD to prescribe such rules and regua
tions may be necessary and proper for conyening
Convention composed Of delegates to be chosen by that
portion Of the people Of said State who loyal to the
United States and Others for the purpose Of altering
amending the Constitution thereof and with author
ity TO exercise within the limits of said State, all tho
and proper TO enable such loyal people
Of the State Of South Carolina restore said State to its
Constitutional relations to the Federal Government and
to present such Republican form OF State Government
will enue the State TO the guarantee of the United
States therefor and its people to protection by the
United States against INVASION insurrecon and domes
tic violence; Prouided that in any election that may
hereafter be held for choosing delegates to any State
Convention aforesaid, person shall be qualified
elector, shall be eligible member of such Con-
vention unless he shall have previously taken and sub
scribed the oath Of amnesty set forth in the Pres
dents Proclamation Of May 29th, A. D. 1865, and s
voter qualified as prescribed by the Constitution and
laws of the State of South Carolina in force Immediately
before the seventeenth p7thl day of November A. d.
1860 the date Of the so-caed Ordinance Of secession
and the said Convention, when convened, the Legs
lature that may be thereafter assembled will prescribe
the qualification of electors and the eligibility Of per-
sons to hold Office under the Constitution and laws Of
the State power the people Of the several States
posing the Federal Union have rightuy exercised from
the origin Of the Government to the present time
1t is therefore ordered, that all officers and other per-
sons in the United States military service within the
State Of South Carolina aid and asgist Governor PERRY
in carrying into effect the foregoing instructons and
they enjoined to abstain fom in any way, hinder.
ng impeding, or disconragpg the loyal people Of the
State from the organization Of State Government
hereinabove authorized and directed ~ j. =
All orders and instructions now in operation through.
ont this Department, whether emanating from these
Headquarters from Headquarters Department Of the
South that not Inconsistent with the foregoing dis.
ncty specified provisions OF this ORDER will continue
force heretofore throughout the State Of South ca
| rolina. 100 ...;s. al. T. =.
Every needful facility for taking the Amnesty Oath
will be afforded by the Military authorities. forms
! heretofore supplied for that purpose. Il .-a
Hereafter Provost Marshsls and Assistant Provost
Marshals win constitute the only Military Officers
titled to administer tho Amnesty OATH certified copy
of which w in oil cases. be furnished to the individual
taking 1t. The original oaths viii be transmitted semi
monthly, by the officer administering the same. to the
Provost Marahai General at these Headquarters, by
whom they win be recorded IN book for that purpose
and then forwarded to the Secretary Of State.
Persons applying for Executive clemency will send
their petition with certified copy of the Amnesty oat
attache to the President through the Provisional Go
vernon OF Greenvine, South Carolina .s..-...
I BY command of Major. General Q. A. GILMORE.
| s,.- W. L. NJ. BURGER,
| Assistant Adutant- General.
Official: T. D. HoDeEs, Capt. a5th u. g. c. T., Acting
Assistant Adjutantd General. " - >' August l6
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