The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-18


after, upon tho payment OF sum not exceeding
one dollar aud fifty cents per acre, the person
holding euch lease shall bo entitled to certificate
OF sale OF said tract OF twenty acres from the Di
rect Tax Commissioner such ofiicor as may be
authorized to issue the same; but no warrant shall
DO held valid longer than two years after the issue
SEC. 10. That the direct Tax Commissioners for
South Carolina are hereby authorized and requir-
ed at the earliest day practicable, to survey the
lands designated in section z into lots OF twenty
acres each, with proper metes and bounds DIS
tinctly marked, that the several tracts shall be
convenient in form, and as near as PraotIcable
the exponse of such surveys shall be paid from
the proceeds of sales OF said lands, or, II sooner
required, out of any moneys received for other
lands on these islands, sold py the united states
FOR taxes and now in tho hands OF the direct Tax
Commissioners.
SEQ. II. That restoration of tho lands now oc-
cupied by persons nndor General erman's spe-
cial leld order dated at Savannah, Georgi,, Janu-
ary sixteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-tive,
shall not be made until the crops of tho present
year shall have been gathered by the occupants Of
said lands nor until q fair compensation shall
have been made to them by the former owners of
said lands, or their loyal representatives, for all
improvements or betterments erected or con-
sructed thereon, and after due notice of the same
being dono shall have been given by the Assistant
Commissioner.
SEC. IL. That the Commissioner shall have
power to seize, hold, use, lease sell all build
ings and tenemonts, and any lands appertaiuing
to tho same, otherwise, held under claim OF
title by the late so-oalied Confederate States,
and any buildings or lands held i'll trust for the
same by any person or persons, and to use tho
same appropriate tho proceeds derived there.
from to tho education Of the freed people; and
Whenever thu Bureau shall cease to exist, such of
the late so-caed Confederate States as shall have
mado provision f + the education OF their citizens
without distinction of color shall receive the sum
remaining unoxpendcd of such sales or rentals,
which shall be distributed among said States foi
educational purposes in proportion to their popu-
lation.
SEC. 10. That the Commissic ner Of this Bureau
shall at all times cooperate with private beuevo-
lont associations Of citizens in aid of freedmen
and with agents and teachers, duly accre dited
and appointed by them, and shall hiro or provide
whenever such associations shall, without cost to
the Government, provide suitable teachers and
means Of instructions; and he shall furnish such
protection may DO required for the safe con-
duct of such schools.
Sec. IA. That in every Stats or district where
the ordinary course OF judicial proceedings has
been interrupted Dy the rebellion, and until the
same shall be fully restored, and in every State
district whose constitutional relations to tho Gov.
ernment have boon 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 United States
tho right to make and enforce contracts to sue
be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, pur
chase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and per
sonal property, and to have full and equal benefit
OF all laws and proceedings concerning persona
liberty, personal security, and tho acquisition
personal including the constitutional right to bear
arms, shall bo secured to and enjoyed by all the
cltzons OF such State or district without respect
to race color, or previous condition of slavery
And whenever in either of said States or distric
the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has
been interrupted by the rebellion, and until the
Same shall be fully restored, and until such State
shall have been restored III its constitutional rea
tions to the Government, and shall be duly repre-.
sented In tue Congress Of the United States, tho
President shall, through the Commissioner and
the officers of the Bureau, and other such rules
and regulations as the President, through the
Secretary OF War; shall prescribe, extend military
protection and have military jurisdiction over all
cases and questions concerning the free enjoy
ment OF such immunities and rights, and no penal
ty or punishment for any violation of law shall bt
imposed or permitted because of race or color
or previous cordtiOn OF slavery, other or greater
than tho penalty Or punishment to which white
persons may bo liable by law for the like offence
But the jurisdiction conferred by this section up
on the officers Of the Bureau shall not exist III
any State where the ordinary course of judicia
proceedings has not been interrupted by the re
6elon, and shall cease in every State when the
Courts OF tho State anu tho United States are not
disturbed i'll tho peaceabe course Of Justice, and
after such state shall be fully restored in its con.
stitutional relations to the Cove rnnlcnt ard shall
be duly represented in the Congress of the United
States.
SEC. 15 That all officers, agents, employees oi
this Bureau, before entering upon the tntics OF
their Office, shall take the oath prescribed in the
first section Of tho Act to which this is an amend
mont; and all Acts OF parts of Acts inconssten
with the provisions of this Act hereby repealed