Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-07-05

embraced in this clause amount to about
1900 acres. ,.,.... ~
Section seven provides that all Other
lands inthe said Parishes, sold to pay taxes
and bought by the Government, amounting
to $4,000 acres, shall be disposed of in
farms Of twenty acres each, at $3.50 pei
acre, to. such, freedmen as are occupying
the same under General SHERMAN's field
order of January 16, 1866 and to such
other freedmen as obtained lands under sale
order, and have since been dispossessed by
the restoration of such lands to the owners
Six years are allowed by the act for the ne
gross to confirm their titles.
Section eight provides for the sale of al
lands and lots 10 Beaufort and Port Royal
claimed BY the Government the proceeds
to be invested in United States Bonds, the
interest on which is to be appropriated as 8
school fund, r. ,. 80. - .'.... .a.....
Sections nine and ten provide for the ex
animation by the tax Commissioners, of the
titles to all lands included under Shermap's
order; the survey Of the same, and their
division into twenty acre lots, to be sold te
freedmen under the provisions of the fore
going sections s., ..a... 49,. ".
Section eleven allows the President tc
restore to the owners, such other lands q;
are now occupied by the negroes, upon pay
msnt. being made for improvements thereon
after the crops are egatbered and removed.
Section twelve gives the Commissioners
power to sell all lands claimed as the prop
erty Of the Confederate States, and to ap
propriate the proceeds to the education Of
freedmen. After the withdrawal of the
agencies of the Bureau, such proceeds, il
.
any are left, are to be turned over to the
States in which the lands lie, as an educa'
tional fund. y'%
Sec. 13. That the Commissioner of this
Bureau shall at all times GO operate with pri-
vate benevolent associations of citizens in
aid of freedmen, and with agents and teach
ers duly accredited and appointed by them
aud shall hire or provide BY lease buildings
for purposes of education, whenever such
associations shall, without cost to the Gov.
ernment, provide suitable teachers and means
of instruction and he shall furnish such
protection as may be required for the safe
conduct of such schools. .atHv
Sec IA. That in every State or district
where the ordinary course OF judicial pro-
ossdiugs has been interrupted BY the rebel.
lion, and until the same shall have been
fully restored and IN every State or district
whose constitutional relations to the Govern
mept have been practically discontinued by
the rebellion, and until such State shall have
been restored in such relations and shall be
duly represented in the Congress of the Uni,
ted States, the right to make and enforce
contracts, to sue, be parties and give evi'
dence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold
and convey real and personal property, and
to have full aud equal benefit of all laws
and proceedings concerning personal liberty,
personal security, and the acquisition, enjoy
ment and disposition of estate, real and per
sopal, including the constitutional right tc
bear arms, shall be secured to and enjoyed
by all the citizens of such State or district,
without respect to race or color, or previous
condition. of slavery and, whenever in eth.
or said States or districts the ordinary course
of judicial proceedings has been interrupted
By the rebellion, and until the same shall
be fully restored, and until each State shall
have been restored in its constitutional re.
lations to the Government, and shall be
duly represented in the Congress of the
United States, the President shall, through
the Commissioners and the officers of the
Bureau,a and under such rules and regula-
tions as theaPresident, through the Secre'
sary Of War shall prescribe, extend military
jurisdiction over all cases and questions con,
cerning the free epjoyments Of such immun-
tiles and rights; and no penalty or punish,
ment for any violation of law shall be i'm.
posed or permitted because of race or color,
or previous condition of slavery, other or
greater than the punishment to which white
persons may be liable by law for the like Of
fence; but the jurisdiction conferred by
this section upon the officers of the bureau
shall not exist in any State where the or.
dinary course of judicial proceedings has
no. been. interrupted by the rebellion, and
shall cease in every State where the courts
of the States and the United States are not
disturbed in the peaceable course of justice
and after such State shall be fully restored
in its constitutional relation to the Govern
ment, and shall be duly represented in the
Congress of the Uuited States
Sec. Is. That all officers, agents and EN-
pioyees Of this bureau before entering upon
the duties of their Office shall take The oath
prescribed in the first section of the act to
which this is an amendment, and all acts OF
parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions
of this act are hereby repealed.