The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-24
RECoNsTRUCTION.a

sunnlemeptarv reconstruction bill, as it pass
ed both Houses:
SEC. 1. Be 1T enacted bY the Senate an
House Of Representatives q the Onate@ etate
of Aneyice an Congress assembled, That 1t l
hereby declared to have been the true inten
and meantime of the act of March I'd, A. d
1867. entitled an act to provide for the NOR
efficient government of the rebel States
and of the act supplementary thereto, passet
on the s3d day of March, in the year 1867
that the Governments then existing in tn
rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina
South Carolina, Georgia. Mississippi, Ala
bama. Louisiana. Florida, Texas and Arkan
sas, were illegal and void, and thereafter thu
same governments, if continued, were to b'
continued subject in all respects to the Mill
| tary Commanders of the respective Districts
and to the authority of Congress.
SEC. 2. Ind be it further enacted. That thu
commander of any district named in said act
shall have power, subject to the approval o
the General of the armies OF the United
States, to have effect till disapproved
whenever in the opinion of such com
mander the proper administration of said
act shall require it, to suspend or re-
move from ol;ice, or from the performance
of official duties and the exercise of official
powers, any officer or person holding or ex-
ercising, or protesting to hold or exercise
any civil or military office, or duty in such
district under any power, election, appoint
ment or authority derived from or granted
by, or claimed under any so-callcd State or
the government thereof, or any municipal or
other division thereof, and upon such sus-
pension or removal such commanders, sunlect
to the approval of the General aforesaid,
shall have power to provide from time to
time fol- the performance OF the said duties
of such officer or person, so suspended or re-
moved, bv the detail of some competent of
ficer or soldier of the army or by the ap-
pointment of some other person to perform
the same, and to fill vacancies occasioned by
death, resignation or otherwise.
Sec. 8. 1nd be it further enacted, That
the General of the armies of the United
States shall be invested with all the power OF
SUSPENSION removal, appointment and detail
granted in the preceding section to district
commanders.
SEC. 4. Ind be 1T further enacted, That
the acts of the officers of the army already
done in removing in said districts persons
execising the functions of civil officers and
appointing others i'll their stead, are hereby
confirmed provided that any person hereto
fore or hereafter appointed by any district
commander to exercise the functions of any
civil office may be removed, either by the
military officer in command of the district or
by the General of the army and it shall be
the duty of commanders to remove from Of
flee, as aforesaid all person who are disloyal
to the government of the United States, or
who use their official influence in any manner
to hinder delay, prevent or obstruct the due
and proper administration Of this act, and
the acts to which this is supplementary.
SEC. 5. ind be it tHrtler enacted, That
the boards Of registration provided FOR in
the act entitled AN act supplementary to
an act entitled An act to provide for the
more efficient government of the rebel
States passed March ?, 1867, and to facili
tate restoration" passed March %, 1867,
shall have power, and it shall be their duty
before the allowing the registration Of any
person, to ascertain, upon such facts or in
formation as they can obtain, whether such
person is entitled to be registered under
said act, and the oath required by said act
shall not be conclusive on such question,
and no person shall be registered unless such
board shall decide that he is entitled there
10; and such board shall also have power to
examine under oath Ito be administered by
any member of such boardD any one touch
ng the qualification of any person claiming
registration. But in every case of a refusal
~ the board to register an applicant, made
n every case hereinafter provided, the board
hall make a note or memorandum, which
hall be returned with the registration list to
he commanding Generals of the Districts,
citing forth the ground of such refusal, or
UGH striking from tie list : Provided, that
10 person shall be disqualified, as a member
# any board of registration, by reason of
ace or color.
Sec. 6. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
he true intent and meaning of the oath pre-
cribed In said supplementary act is, iamong
ther things,) that no person who has been
member of the Legislature of any State,
II who has held any executive or judicial
ffice in any State, whether lie has taken an
ath to support tile Constitution of the Uni
ed States or not, and whether he was hold |
NO such office at the commencement of the |
ebellion or had held it before. and who has |
forwards engaged in instruction or rebel |
ion againstthe United States or given aid or |
Omfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to |
re registered or to vote and the words /" ex-
cutive or judicial Office in any State in |
aid oath mentioned shall be construed to
include all civil offices created by law for the |
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tate, or for the administration of justice.
Sec. Z. Ind be al. further enacted, That the
me for completing the original registration
rovided for in said act may, in the discre-
ION of the commander of any district, be
xtended to the LIST day of October, 1867;
nd the boards of registration shall have
over, and 1t shall be their duty, commence
lg fourteen days prior to any election under
lid act, and upon reasonable public notice
the time and place thereof, to revise for
eriod of three days the registration lists;
nd upon being satisfied that any person not
1titled thereto has been registered, to strike
lie name of such person from the list. And
lch hoard shall also, during the same peri
L, add to such registry the names of all
ersons who at that time possess the qualif-
ltions required by said act who have not
cen already registered, and no person shall
any time be entitled to be registered or to
ote by reason of any executive pardon or
nnesty, for any act or thing which, with
1t such pardon or amnesty, would disqual-
Y him from registration or voting
SEC. s. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
C. of the said last-named act shall be con-
rued to authorize the commanding general
amed therein, whenever he shall deem it
sedful, to remove any member of board
registration, and to appoint another per- {
N in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in
ch board. d,
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