The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-07-13
THE SENATE BILL.
SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION.

| SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION
Mr. TRuMBULI, from the Senate Judiciary Com
mitteo, on Monday reported
Blu 10 giue effect 10 an Ac, entitled "An Act 10
pr0uide for the more eficsenG government Of tue
saass bst Ma,e H. 1857 ssns infant and
meaning OF the "Act to provide for the more
efficient government Of the rebel States, passed
March Q, A. D. 1867, was, is, and shall be, con-
| strued 10 be that the military authority Of the
United States in said rebel States, provided in
said Act, was and is paramount to any civil gov.
| ernment existing therein; makes all such civil
| governments subordinate to such military au-
| thority, and prohibits them from interfering in
any way with the exercise Of such military au-
| thority.
SECTION 2. And be Il further enacted, That the
commander of any district named in said act shall
have power subject to the approval OF the General
| of the armies Of the United States, whenever in
| the opinion Of such commander the proper admin
istration OF said act shall require it, to suspend or
| remove from Office, or from the performance OF
official powers, any officer or person holding or
exercising, or protesting to hold exercise, any
civil or military Office, or duty in such district un-
derived from, or granted BY, or claimed under any
so-called State or the government thereof, or any
municipal or other division thereof, and upon such
suspension or removal such commander, subject
to the approval Of the General aforesaid, shall
have power to provide, from time, to time for the
performance of the said duties Of such officer or
person so suspended or removed by the detail OF
| some competent officer or soldier Of the army to
perform the same.
SECTION 8. Ana be Il further enacted, That the
General of the armies Of the United States shall be
invested with all the powers of suspension remov-
al and detail, granted in the preceding section to
district commanders.
SECTION 4. And be It further enacted, That the
moving, in said districts, persons exercising the
functions Of civil officers, and appointing others
in th air stead, are hereby confirmed.
SECTION 5. And be ii further enacted That the
cards of registration provided for in the act On.
titled an act supplementary to an act entitled AN
act to provide for the more efficient government OF
the rebel States passed March 2, eighteen hun
dred and sixtyseVen, and to facilitate restoration,
passed March twenty three, eighteen hundred and
sixty-seven, shall have power, and it shall be their
son, to ascertain upon such facts or information 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 ques-
ton, and person shall be registered unless such
board shall decide that he is entitled thereto and
such board shall also have power to examine under
oath Ito be administered by any member OF such
board) any one touching the qualification Of any
person claiming Registration.
SECTION 6. And be IL turthS:. enacted, That the
true intent and meaning Of the oath prescribed in
sold supplementary act is (among other things)
that no person who has been o member OF the
Legislature OF any State, or who has held any
executive or judicial Office in any State, whether
he mas taken an oath to support the Constitution
of the United States or not, and who has after
wards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against
the United States, given aid or comfort to the
enemies thereof is entitled to be registered or to
vote; and the words executive or Judicial Office
in any State in said oath mentioned shall be con-
strued to include oil civil offices created by law for
the administration OF the several laws Of the State.
SECTION 7. And be ii further endcted, That the
time for completing the original registration pro-
vided for in said oct may, in tho discretion of the
commander Of any dis rict be extended to the first
day of October, 1867; and the boards Of registra-
ton shall have power, and it shall be their duty,
commencing twenty days prior to any election un..
der said act, and upon reasonable public notice OF
the time and place thereof to revise for period OF
three days the registration lists; and upon being
satisfied that any person not entitled thel eto has
been registered, to strike the name OF such person
from the list, and such person shall not be allowed
TO vote. And such board shall also, during the
same period, add to such register the names Of all
persons who ct that time possess the qualifications
required by said act who have not been already re.
gstered, and no person shall at any time be en'i.
tied to be registered or to vote by reason OF any
| executive pardon or amnesty for any act or thing
which, without such pardon or amnesty, would
disqualify him from registration or voting.
SECTION s. And be IL further enacted That
section OF the said last named act shall be con.
strued to authorize the commanding genera
named therein, whenever he shall deem it need.
full, to remove any member Of board OF ofregistra.
tion, and to appoint another person in his stead
and to fill any vacancy in such board.