Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1867-07-25

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provide for the more efficient government
of the rebel States" passed March %,
1867, shall have power, and it shall be
their duty, before allowing the registra-
ton of any person, to ascertain upon such
facts or information as they can obtain
whether said person is entitled to be regis
tered under said act, and the oath required
by said act shall not be conclusive on such
question, and no person shall be register
ed unless such Board shall decide that he
is entitled thereto. And such Board SHALL
also have power to examine under oath,
to be administered by any member of said
Board, any one touching the qualifications
of any one claiming registration. But in
every case of a refusal by the Board to re-
gister an applicant, and in every case Of
striking his name from the list, as herein
after provided, the Board shall make me-
morandum, which shall be returned with
the registration list to the Commanding
General of the District, setting forth the
grounds of such refusal or such striking
from the list, provided that no person shall
be disqualified as member of any Board
of Registration by reason of race or color
Sec. 6. That the true intent and mean
ing of the oath prescribed in said supple
mentary act is, among other things, that
no person who has been member of the
Legislature of any State, or who has held
auy executive or judicial Office in any
State, whether he has taken an oath to
support the Constitution of the United
States or not, Or whether he was holding
office at the commencement Of the rebel
lion, or had held it before, and who was
afterwards engaged in instruction Or re-
bellion against the United States, Or Civ
en- aid or comfort to the enemies thereof
is entitled to register or vote; and the
words ''executive or judicial Office in any
State in said oath mentioned, shall be
construed to include all civil Offices Great
ted by law for the administration Of any
general law Of the State Or for the admin
istration Of justice.
Sec. Z. The time for completing the
original registration, provided for in said
act, may, in the discretion Of the comman-
der Of any district, be extended to the first
day of October, 1867, and board of re-
gistration shall have power, and it shall be
their duty, commencing fourteen days pri-
or to any election under said act, and up
on reasonable public notice of the time
and place thereof, to revise Cor period of
five days the registration lists, and upon
being satisfied that any person not entitled
thereto has been registered, to strike the
name of such person from the list; and
such board shall also, during the same pc
Rod, add to such registry the names of all
persons who at that time possessed the qua
LITIGATION required by said act who have not
been already registered, and no person
shall at any time be entitled to be regis
tered or vote by reason of any Executive
pardon or amnesty for any act or thing
which, without such pardon or amnesty,
would disqualify him from registering Or
voting.
Sec. 8. That of said last named act
shall be construed to authorize the COM
handing General named therein whenev-
er he shall deem it needful to remove any
member of board of registration and to
appoint another in his stead, and to ELL
any vacancy in such board.
Sec. 9. That all members of said boards
Of registration, and all persons hereafter
selected or appointed to office in said mill
tary districts under any so-called State Or
municipal authority. or by detail or ap-
pointment of the district commanders,
shall be required to take and subscribe
the oath Of Office prescribed by law for Of
fcers of the United States.
Sec. 10 That no district commander or
member of the board of registration, or
any of the officers or appointees acting un-
der them, shall be bound in his action by
any opinion of any civil officer of the Uni
ted States
Sec. II. That all the provisions of this
act, and the acts to which this is supple
mentary. shall be construed literally, to
the end that all the interests thereof may
be fully and perfectly carried out.