Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-06-28
ed to taksas part of their official oath, the oath
to support the Constitution of the United States.
ConcurTed in unanimously

to support the Constitution of the United States
Concurred in unanimously
Thirteenth. Persons who exercised mere en-
ployments under the State authority, not dis
qualified. Such as commissioners to lay out
roads :; commissioners of public works; visitors
at State institutions directors of State Insttu-
tions; examiners Of banks; notaries public
commissioners TO take acknowledge ents of deeds.
Concurred in unanimously, but the Secretary of
State, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Sec
retary of War, expressed the opinion that lawyers
are such officers as disqualified if they par
tcipated in the rebellion. Two things must exist
as to any person to disqualify him from voting
First, the office held prior to the rebellion and
afterwards participating therein.
Fourteenth. An 20 fix upon person the Of
fence OF engaging in rebellion under this law
must be an overt aud voluntary act done with the
intent of aiding or furthering the common I'M
lawful purpose. person forced into the rebel
service by conscription, under paramount
authority which he could not safely disobey, and
who would not have entered such service if left to
the free exercise of his own WILL cannot be held
to be disqualified from voting. AL voted aye ex-
cept the Secretary of War, who voted nay, as the
proposition is stated.
Fifteenth. Mere acts of charity where tie in
tent is to relieve the wants of the object of such
charity, and is not done in aid of the cause in
which he may have been engaged, do not disqual-
fy but organized contributions of food and cloth
ing for the general relief of persons engaged in
rebellion and not of merely sanitary character,
but contributed to enable them to perform their
unlawful object, may be classed with acts which
do disqualify. Forced contributions to the rebel
cause in the form of taxes military assessments
which person Was compelled to pay or contri-
butte, do not disqualify, but voluntary contribu-
tlons to the rebel cause such indirect con-
! tributions as arise from the voluntary loan Of
money to rebel authorities purchase of bonds
or securities created to afford the means of carry
| ing on the rebellion, wilt work disqualfcatlon-
Concurred in unanimously.
Sixteenth. All those who, in leg islative or other
official apacity, were engaged in the furtherance
| OF the common unlawful purpose-where the du-
ties Of the Office necessarily had relati on to the
support of the rebelIion-such as members of the
| rebel conventions, congresses and legislatures,
| diplomatic agents of the rebel Confederacy and
other officers whose Offices were created for the
| purpose of moro etfectually carrying on hosti-
| ties, or whose duties appertained to the support
Of the rebel cause, must be held to be disqual-
iied. But officers who, during the rebellion, dis
charged official duties not incident to the war; but
only such duties as belong even to q State of
peace, and were necessary to the preservation of
order and the administration Of the law, are not
to be considered as thereby engaging in rebellion
or as disqualified. Disloyal sentiments, or opin-
ions sympathies would not disqualify but
where person has, by speech or by writing, in
cited others to engage in rebellion, he must come
under the disqualification. All voted aye except
the Secretary Of War, who dissented to the second
paragraph, with the exception of the words,
''where persoa has by speech OF by writing in
cited others to engage in the rebellion, he must
come under the disqualification"
Seventeenth The duties of the board appoint
ed to superintend the elections. This board hay
ing the custody Of the list of registered voters in
the district for which it is constituted, must see
that the name of the person Offering to vote is
found upon the registration list, and if such proves
to be the fact, it is the duty Of the board to
ceve his vote if then qualified by residence. They
cannot receive the vote of any person whose name
is not upon the list, though he may be ready to
take the registration oath, although he may sats-
| fy them that he was unable to have his name reg
istered at the proper time, in consequence Of alb
sence, sickness or other cause. The board can
not enter into any inquiry to the qualifications
of any person whose name is not on the registra-
|
whose name is on the list Concurred ia unani-
mously
Eighteenth. The mode of voting is provided in
| the act, to be by ballot The board will keep a
record and poll book of the elections, showing
the votes list of voters and the persons elected by
plurality of the votos cast at the election, and
make returns Of these to the commanding general
of the district. Concurred in unanimously.
| Hbo r1 f,rr an
ton and for experimenting the elections, mus
take the oath prescribed by the act Of Congress,
approved July I'd, 1862, entitled act to prescribe
an oath Of office" Concurred in unanimously.
| IN CABINET, June 2Gtl, 1S67.-Prcsent: The
same Cabinet officers on the 18th, except tie
| acting Secretary Of the interior. Tho President
announced to the Cabinet that after full dolibera-
tion he concurred with the majority upon these
! sections Of the summary upon which the Secre-
| tary of War expressed his dissent, and that he
concurred with the Cabinet upon those sections
| approved by unanimous vote. That, it ap-
| peared, the military commanders entertained
doubts upon the points covered by the summary,
and as their action hitherto had not been uniform,
he deemed it proper without further delay to COM
municate in general order to the respective COM
manders the points set forth in the summary.
The President leaves northward in the morn
| ing.
Prominent citizens of New Orleans, teegraphed
the President, urging King, Of the Times for the
| Mexican mission.
Close relations between Thos. s. Smoot and
wife of Henry Johnson, was interrupted by her
husband who shot Smoot twice in the heads-
Smoot died in half an hour.
Gen. Longstreet has been pardoned
The Russian treaty has been officially promul-
gated.
Action of the Executive i'm the Southern
| Complications.
It seems to be settled definitively that
| instructions will at once be sent to the sew
eral military commanders at the South, re-
quiring them to conform their action in re-
ference to the registration and qualifca-
tions of voters to the views expressed IN
the two opinions of the Attorney General
recently submitted to the President and
Cabinet, and approved by them The de-