Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-03-08
TILE NEW Law.

struction Bill, Tor the government anO
restoration of the late seeded states,
as it has just passed over the
Presidents veto, and become the
law of the land. 1t is of great interest
and importance, and should be preserv-
ed for future use.
WHEREAS, No legal state govern.
ment, or adequate protection for life or
property, how exists in the rebel states
of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana,
Florida, Texas, and Arkansas and
WHEREAS, 1t is necessary that peace
and good order should be enforced in
said states until loyal and republican
state governments can be established 4;
therefore
Be it enacted, de-, That said rebel
states shall be divided into military
districts and made subject to the mill
tary authority OF the United States, as
hereafter prescribed, and for that pur-
pose Virginia shall constitute the first
district; North Carolina and South
Carolina the second district; Georgia,
Alabama and Florida the third district;
Mississippi and Arkansas the fourth
district; Louisiana aud Texas the fifth
district.
SEC. 2. That it shall be tic duty of
the President to assign to the command
of each said district ali officer of the
army, not below the rank of brigadier
general, and to detail sufficient mill
tary force to enable such officer to per-
form his duties and enforce his authori-
ty within the district to which he is
assigned.
SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of
each officer assigned, as aforesaid, to
protect oil persons in their rights OF
person and property, to suppress insur-
rcctiOn, disorder, and violence, and to
punish or cause to be punished all dis
turbers of the public peace and crimin-
ais, and to this end he may allow loyal
civil tribunals to take jurisdiction OF
judgment il may be necessary for the
trial of offenders, he shall have power
to organize military commissions or
tribunals for that purpose, and all inter-
ference under color of military authori-
~ under this act, shalt be null and
void.
SEC. 4. That al persons put IN
der military arrest by virtue of this
act shall be tried without unnecessary
delay, and no cruel or unusua! punish
ment shall be inflicted and no sentence
Of any military commission or tribunal,
hereby authorized, affecting the life or
liberty of any person, shall be executed
until it is approved by the officer in
command OF. the district; and the laws
and regulations fol the governmento fthe
army shall not be affected by this act
except in so far as they may conflict
with it's provisions.
SEC. ). That when the people Of any
one of said rebel states shall have
formed q constitutional government,
in conformity with the constitution OF
the United States in ailrespects, framed
by convention of delegates elected by
the persons who may vote upon the
ratification or rejection thereof, as
hereinafter provided: and when said
constitution, so framed, shall have been
ratified by q majority Of the male
citizens of said state, 81 years old and
upward, of whatever race, color, or pre-
vious condition of servitudc, who may
have been residents in said state for one
year previous to the day of voting on
the question Of ratifying such constitu-
ton, except such as may be disiranchis-
ed for participating in the rebellion or
FOR felony at common law and when
such constitution shall provide that the
elective franchise shall be enjoyed by
all such persons that have the Qunliiica-
tons herein stated, and shall have been
submitted to congress for examination
and congress shall have approved the
same; and when said state, by vote OF
its legislature elected under said consti-
tuition, shall have adopted the amend
meHt to the constitution OF the United
States, proposed by the thirty-ninth
congress, and knownas article "A; and
when said article shall have become a
part of the constitution of the United
States; said state shall be declared enti-
tied to representation in Congress, and
senators ard representatives shall he
admitted thereupon on their taking the
oath prescribed by the law; and then
and thereafter the preceding sections OF
this bill shall bc imperative in said
state. Provided No person excluded
the privilege OF holding Office by sal
proposition of amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States shall be
eligible to election as member of any
convention to frame Il constitution Tor
any of said rebel states, nor shall any
such person vote for members Of such
Sec. 6. That until the people in said
rebe!iious states shall in due form OF
law he admitted to representation in the
congress Of the United States, any civil
government which may exist there
shall be deemed provisional, and in all
respects subject to the power and au-
thority of the United States, at any
time to be abolished, modified, orsuper-
ceded. And all elections for officers OF
such provisional governments shall be
conducted only by the persons named
in the fifth section Of this act, and no
person shall be eligible to office under
such provisional government who
would be disqualified from holding
office under the provision of the third
section of the constitutional amendment
Of last session.
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