Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-07-19

so-called State, or the government thereof
or any municipal or other division thereof;
and upon such suspension or removal such
commander, subject to the disapproval Of
the General, as aforesaid, shall have power
to provide from time 10 time for the perfor-
nance Of the said duties of such officer or
person so suspended or removed by the de-
tail 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, resigna-
ton, or otherwise.
SEC 3. That the General Of the army of
the United States shall be invested with all
the powers Of suspension, removal, appoint
ment, and detail granted in the preceding
section to district commanders.
SEC 4. 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 their
stead, are hereby c0nfrmed provided that
any person heretofore or hereafter appoiut-
ed by any district commander TO exercise
the function Of any civil office, may be re.
moved either by the military officer In com
mand Of the district, or by the Gen. of the
army; and it shall be the duty of such com
mander 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,
delay, prevent, or obstruct the due and prop
er administration Of this act and the acts to
which It is supplementary
SEC. ). That the boards of registration
provided for in the act entitled "An act
supplementary to an act entitled an act to
provide for the more efficient government
Of the rebel States, passed March 2, 1867;
and to facilitate restoration, passed
March 23 1867, shall have power, and it
shall be their duty before allowing the reg
lstratlon Of any person, to ascertain, upon
such fact or information as they can OBJ
tain, whether such person is entitled to be
registered under said act, and the oath re-
CURED 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 to be
administered by any member of such board
any one touching the the qualification of any
person claiming registration; but in every
case of refusal by the board to register an
applicant, aud, in every case of striking his
name from the list as hereinafter provided,
the board shall make a note or memoran-
istration list TO the commanding general Of
the district, setting forth the ground of such
refused or such striking from the list: Pro
vided that no person shall be disqualified as
member Of any board of registration by rea-
son af race or color
Sec. 6. That the true intent and meaning
Of the oath presented iG 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 he
has taken an oath to support the Constitu-
ton OF the United States OF not, and wheth-
er he was holding such Office at the com
mencem ent Of the rebellion, or had held it
before, and who has afterwards engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against the United
States, or givenaid or comfort to the enemies
thereof, is entitled to be registered or to
vote; and the words executive or judicial
Office in any State, in said oath mentioned
shall be constructed to include all civil off,
ces created by law for the administration of
any general law ola State, or for the admin
istration Of justice
SEC. Z. Ind be It furtter enacted, That
the time for completing the original regis
tratiOn provided for in in any act may, in
the discretion Of the commander of any dis
A4tlts DG NAkCL1Gu " tltE Ii Gt ud1 VI AJCtO-
Der, 1867; and the board Of registration
shall have power, and it shall be their duty,
commencing fourteen days prior to any cleo
ton under said act, and upon reasonable
public notice Of the time and place thereof.
to revise for period of five days the regis
tration lists, and upon being satisfied that
any person not entitled thereto has been
registered, to strike the name of such per
son from the list, and 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 by
said act, who have not been already register
ed, and no person shall at any time be enti-
tied to be registered or to vote by reason of
any executive pardon or amnesty, for any
act or thing which, without such pardon or
amnesty, would disqualify him from regis
tration or voting.
SEC s. That all members of said boards
of registration, and all persons hereafter
elected or appointed to Office in said militia
~ districts under and so-called State or
municipal authority, or by detail or appoint
ment of the district commander, shall be re-
quircd to take and subscribe to the oath of
Office prescribed by law for the officer Of the
United Statss.
SEC. 9. That no district commander, or
member Of the board of registration, or any
officer or appointee acting under them,
shall be bound in his action By any opinion
of any civil officer of the United States.
SEC. 10. That section Of said last-nam
ed act shall be construed to authorize the
commanding general named therein, when
ever he shall deem it needful, to remove any
member Of a board of registration, and to
appoint another in his stead, and to fill any
vacancy in such board.
SEC. II, That all the provisions of this
act, and of the acts to which this is supple
mentary, shall be constructed literally to the
end, that all the intents thereof may be fully
and perfectly carried out.
WASHINGTON, July Is, lS67.-Mr. Sum
ners called up his resolution offered on the
9TH inst. TO suspend the rules, so rs 10 allow
him to call up the bill for the establishment
of universal suffrage throughout the United
States. The proposition was opposed and
at 1915 the Senate went into executive ses-
sion. The House proceeded as the first
business in order on Monday, to the call of
States and Territories for bills and Joint reso-
lutions for reference, and one was read
twice and referred declaring valid and bind
ing the decisions of military courts and COM
missions made in civil cases, where civil
courts were in operation. Referred to the
j Judiciary Committee.
The House has again refused to order the
printing of the evidence taken by the Judi
eiary Committee on impeachment
Tu..f.