The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-17

The following Is copy oil thI
amendatuIy reconstruction bill as re-
ported by the Conference Committee,
snd which passed both houses of Con-
gress on Saturday last. and now awaits
the action ofthe President:
Be ii enacted by the Senate aud House
of RepreSentdtiUeS Of the United states
Of Amer'icd IN Congress assembled, That
il is hereby declared TO have been the
true intent and meaning of the act OF
I'd day OF March, 1867, entitled an act 10
provide for the more efficient govern
ment of the rebel States, and Of the act
supplementary thereto, passed on the
23d day of March, 1866, that the govern
ments then existing in the rebel States
of Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas and
Arkansas were not legal State govern
ments, and that thereafter said govern :
meuIs, il continued, were continued
ubiect in all respects to the military
commanders of the respective districts,
and 10 the paramount authority of Con-
gress.
Sec. 2. And be IL further enacted, That
the commander OF any district named
in said act shall have power, subject TO
the disapproval of the General of the
army Of the United States, and to have
the opinion OF such commauder the
proper administration of said act shall
eOuire it, 10 suspend and remove from
office, or from the performance ol OIL
fetal duties and the exercise OF ofnclAl
powers, any officer or person holding
or exercising, or protesting TO hold or
exercise any civil or military office or
duty in such district under any power,
election, appointment, or authority de-
rived from, or granted by, or claimed
under, any so called State or the gov
ernment thereof, or any municipal or
other division thereof; and upon such
suspension or removal of such COM
proval of the General as afore
said, shall have power to pro-
vide from time to time for the perfor-
nance of said duties of such officer or
person SO suspended or removed, by the
detail of some competent otncer or SOL
dier OF the army, or by the appoint
ment of some other person to perform
the same, and to ill vacancies OCCASION
ed by death, resignation or otherwise.
Sec. 8. And beu further enacted, Ihht
the general ofthe armies OF the United
States shall be invested with all the
powers of suspension, removal, ap-
pointment, and detail, ,.granted iE the
preceding section TO district command
erS.
Sec. 4. And be it. further enacted. That
the acts of the officers of the army
already done in removing in said dis
tricts persons exercising the functions
of civil officers and appointing others
In :heir stead, are hereby confirmed.
Provided, that any person heretofore or
hereafter appointed by any district com
mander to exercise the functions of any
civil office may be removed either by
the military officer in command ofthe
district, or by the general of the army.
Sec 5. And belt further enacted, That
the boards of registration provided :or
in the act entitled IAN act supplement
fAry to an act entitled An act 10 pro-
vide for the more efficient government
of the rebel States passed March 2,
1867. and TO facilitate restoration, pass
ed March %, 1867, shall have power,
and 1t shall re their duty before allow
ing the registration of any person, to
ascertain, upon such facts or intcrma-
ton 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 regis
tered 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 touch
ing the qualification of any person
claiming registration; but i'll every case
of refusal by the board to register Hn
applicant, and in every case of striking
his name IRON the list as hereinafter
provided, the board shall make II note
or memorandum, which shall be re-
turned with the registration list 10 the
commanding general of the district.
setting forth the ground of such refusal,
or such striking from the list. Provi.
ded, that no person shall be disqualified
as member of any board Of registra-
ton by reason of race or color.
Sec. 6. And be 1t further enacted, That
the true intent and meaning OF the oath
prescribed in said supplementary act
Is, (anong other things that no person
who has been member of the Legis-
lature of any State, OF 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, aud whether he was hold
ing such Office at the commencement of
the rebellion or had held it before, and
who has afterwards engaged in insur-
rection or rebellion against the United
States, or given aid or comfort TO the
enemies thereof, is entitled to be regis
tered or to vote; and the words "execu-
tive or judicial officer in any State" in
said oath mentioned, shall be construed
TO include all civil offices created by
law for the administration of any gen.
erAl law of Il State, or for the admins
tration of justice, or for the Keeping OF
the public peace.
Sec. :. And be il further enacted. That
the time for completing the original
registration provided for in said act,
may, in the discretion OF the command
er OF any district, be extended to the
first day OF October, 1867, and the boards
of registration shall have power and II
shall be their duty, commencing four
teen days prior TO any election under
said ACT, and upon reasonable public
notice of the time and place thereof, to
revise for "A period OF i've days, the
registration lists, and upon being salts
led that any person not entitled there
to has been registered, 10 strike the
name of such person from the list, aud
such person shall not be allowed to
vote. And such board shall also, during
the same period, add to such registry
the names of all persons who at that
time possess the qualifications required
bv said act who have not been already
registered, aud no person shall at any
time be entitled TO be registered or 10
vote by reason ofany executive pardon
or amnesty for any act or thing which.
without such pardon or amnesty,
would disqualify him from registra-
ton or voting.
Sec. 8. And be ii further enacted, That
section four of said last named act
shall be construed to authorize the
commanding general named therein,
whenever he shall deem il needful, to
remoye any memb of board of
registration and TO appoint another in
his stead, and to fill any vacancy in
such board.
Sec. 9 Be it further enacted, Tat all
members of said boards OF registration,
and all persons hereafter elected or ap-
pointed to office in said military dis
tricis, under any so.called state or mu-
nicipal authority, or by detail or ap-
pointment of the district commanders,
shall be required to take and TO sub