Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-07-17


wishing to advertise by the year.
Announcing 6 Candidates $500, in advance.
supplementary pill Passed by Both
Houses.
WASHINGTON, July l3.
The following is the text of the bill as il
passed both Houses:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House ol
Representatives of TIE United States Of Ameri
ca in Congress assembled, That it is hereby
declared to have been the true intent and
meaning of the Act Of 81 day Of March, 1867
entitled an act to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States, and Of the act
supplementary thereto, passed on the 231
div of March, 1867, that the governments
then existing in the rebel States Of Virginia
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida. Texas and Ar
kansas were not loyal State governments, and
that, therefore, said governments, il eontin-
ucl, were continued subject in all respects 10
the military commanders of the respective
districts, and to the paramount authority OF
Congress.
SEC. ,. That the commander Of cny dis
trict named in said act shall have power, sub
iect to the disappoval of the general of the
army OF the United States, to have effect till
disapproved, whenever, in the opnit of such
commander, the proper administration Of said
act shall require it, to suspend or remove from
utfice Or from the performance OF official du-
ties and the. exercise of official powers, any
eff ;er or person holding or exercising or pro
fessing to hold or exercise any civil or militia
l,.,,
power, election, appointment Or authority de-
rived from or granted by or claimed under
any so called State or the government thereof,
OF any municipal or other division thereof !;
nd upon such suspension or removal Snch
m,A ,ndcr, subject to the disapproval Of the
general as aforesaid, shall have power TO pro-
vide from time to time for the performance Of
the said duties Of such officer or person so
suspended or removed by tine detail o. some
Competent officer. or soldier of the army, or
By the appointment of some other persons to
perform the same, and to FIJI vacancies ocea-
stoned by death, resignation, or otherwise.
SEC. 8. That the general of the army Oh
the United States shall be invested with all
the powers Of suspension, removal, appoint
ment and detail granted in the preceding sec
ton to district commanders.
SEC. i. And be it further enacted, That the
acts of the officers of the army already done
in removing in said districts persons e1erci-
sing the functions of civil officers and appoint
ing others in their stead are hereby confirmed !;
provided, that any person heretofore or here
after appointed by any district commander to
exercise the functions, any civil officer may
be removed either by the military officers in
command Of the district or By the general Of
the army, and it shall be the duty of such
commanders to remove from Office as aforesaid
all persons who are disloyal to the Govern
ment of the United States, or who use their
official influence in any manner to hinder, de-
lay, prevent or obstruet the use and proper
administration Of this act and the acts to which
it is supplemental.
Sec. 5. That the boards of registration pro-
vided for in the act entitled an act supple
mentary to an act entitled an act to provide
ior the more efficient government of the rebel
States, passed March 23d, 1867, shall have
power and it shall be their duty before allow
ing the registration of any person, to ascer-
tain upon such facts or information as they
can obtain, whether such person is entitled to
be registered under said act, and the oath re
quired by said act shall not be conclusive on
such question, and no person shall be regis
tered until such board shall decide that he is
entitled thereto, and such board shall also
have power to. examine, under oath to be adj
ministered by any member of such board, any
one touching the qualification of any person
c'aining registration but in every case of
refusal By the board to register an applicant,
and in every case of striking his name from
the list, as hereinafter provided, the board
sDall make note or memorandum, which
shall be returned, with the registration list,
to the commanding general OF the district,
setting forth the grounds of such refusal or
such striking from the list; provided, that no
person shall be disqualified as member Of any
board of registration By reasc:- of race or
color.
Sec. G. That the true intent and meaning
Of the oath prescribed in said supplementary
act is, among other things, 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 be has
taken an oath to support the Constitution of
the United States or not, and whether be was
holding such office at the commencement Of
the rebellion, or had held it before, or who
was afterwards engaged in insurrection or r.
belion against the United States, or giving
aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, is enti-
tied to be registered or vote, and the words
executive or judicial Office, in any State" in
said oath mentioned, shall be construed to in
clude all civil Offices created by law for the
administration of any general law of State,
or for the administration Of justice.
SEC. I. That the time for completing the
original registration provided for in said act,
may, in the discretion Of the com mmander Of
any district, be extended to the first day OF
October, 1867, and the boards Of registration
shall have power, and it shall be their duty,
commencing fourteen days prior to any cleo
tio.i under said act and upon reasonable pub
lie notice of the time and place thereof, to
revise for period of five days the registra'
ton lists, and upon being satisfied that any
person not entitled thereto has been regis
tered, to strike the name Of such person from
the list; and such board shall also, during
the same period, add to such registry the
names of all persons who, at'that time, pos
sess the qualifications required by said act
who have not been already registered, and no
person shall at any time be entitled to be reg
istered or to vote by reason of any executive
pardon or amnesty for any act or thing which,
without such pardon or amnesty, would dis
qualify him from registration or voting.
SEC. s. That section four OF said last named
act shall be con trued to authorize the COM
manding general named therein, whenever he
shall deem it needful, to remove any member
of board Of registration and to appoint
another in his stead and to ill any vacancy IN
such board.
SEC. 9. That all members Of such boards
ofregistrntion and all persons hereafter elected
s,.a1;n4.I 10 oG;aa ;r, sn;d military districts