Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-08-07
The supplementary Recon-
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Law.
An ACT Supplementary to an act emit
tied San act TO provide for the more
efficient government Of the rebel
States" passed on the second day Of
of March, eighteen hundred and
~sixtyseyen, and the act complement
airy thereto. passed on the twenty
third day of March, eighteen humid
red and sixtv-seVen.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Uni
ted States of America in Congress as
sembled, That it is hereby declared to
have been the true intent andmesning
of the act of the second day of March
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
seven, entitled IAN act to provide for
the more efficient government of the
rebel States" and of the act supple
mentary thereto, passed on the twenty
third day of March, in the year one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seV-
en-, that the governments then existing
in the rebel States of Virgins, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida,
Texas and Arkansas were not legal
State governments /; and that thereaf-
ter said governments, if continued,
were to be continued subject in all res
poets 20 the military commanders of
respective districts, and to the para
mount authority of Congress.
Sec. 2. Andbe it further enacted,
That the commander of any district
nSmed IN said act shall have power,
subject to the disapproval of the Gen.
ersl of the army of the United States,
and to have effect till disapproyed,
whenever in the opinion of sucn COM
mander the proper administration of
said act shall require it, to suspend or
remove from Office, or from the perfor-
nance of official duties and the exer-
else of official powers, any officer or
person holding or exercising, or pro-
Tossing to hold or exercise, any civil or
military office or duty in such district
under any power, election, appoint
ment OF authority derived from, or
granted by, or claimed under, any So
called State or the government thereof.
or any municipal DR. other division
thereof, and upon such suspension or
removal such commander, subject to
the disspproVal of the General as afore-
said, shall have power TO provide from
time to time for theperformance 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, or by the appointment of some
other person, to perform the same, and
to fill vacancies occasioned by death,
resignation, or otherwise. :
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
Tha .he General army of the United
States shall be invested with all the
powers of suspension, removal, appoint
ment, and detail granted in the pre-.
ceding section to district command
ers. st. -qttr H- g
Sec. L. And be it further enacted,
That the acts of the officers of the
army already done in removing in said
districts persons exercising the funct-
ions of civil officers, and appointing
others in their stead, are hereby con-
irmed: Provided, That any person
heretofore 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 such commander to re-
move from Office as aforesaid all per-
sons who are disloyal to the govern
ment 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 it ia
supplementary.
See. 5, And be it further enacted,
That the boards of registration provi-
ded for in the sct entitled IAN act
supplementary to an act entitled AN act
to provide for the more efficient gov
eminent of the rebel States passed
March two. eighteen hundred and six
ty-seVen, and to facilitate restoration"
passed March tRenty-three, eighteen
hundred and s~ixty-seven, shall have
power, and it shall be their duty be-
fore allowing the registration of any
person, to ascertain upon such facts or
Information as they can obtain. wheth-
er such person is entitled to be regis
tered under said act, and the oath re-
quired by said act shall not be conelu-
ded on such question. and no person
shall be registered unless such board
decide that he is entitled thereto; and
such board shall also have powerto ex-
annie, under oath, Ito be administer
ed by any member of such board any
one touching the qualification of any
person claiming registration but in
every case refusal by the board to reg
lister an applicant, and in every case Of
striking his name from the list as here
matter provided, the board shall make
a tote or memorandum, which shall
be returned with the registration list
to the commanding general of the dis
trict, setting forth the grounds of such
refusal or such striking from the list
provided, That no person shall be dis
qualified as member of any board Of
registration by reason of race or color.
Sec. g.. And be il further enacted,
That the true intent and meaning Of
the oath prescribed in said supplement-
airy act il, tamong other things.l that
no person who has been q member of
the Legislature of any State. or who
has held any executive or judicial office
in any State, whether he has taken an
oath to support the constitution of the
United States or not, and whether he
was holding such office at the COM
mencement Of the rebellion, or had
held it before, and who has afterwards
engaged in instruction or rebellion
against the United States, or given aid
OF. comfort to the enemies thereof, Is
entitled to be registered OF to vote /:
and the words executive or Judicial
Office in any State in said oath men.
toned shall be construed to include all
civil Offices created by law for the adj
ministration of any general law of .
State, or for the administration of jus.
tiee.
Sec. Z. And be it further enacted,
That the time for completing the ORR
ginal registration provided for in said
act may, in the discretion of the com
mander of any district, be extended
to the first day of October, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seVen and the