Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-22

county officers. They are subject to dis.
qualification, If they were required to
take, as a part of their official oath, the
oath TO support the constitution of the
United States. Concurred in unani-
mously. lt
Thirteenth: Persons who exercised
mere employments under State authority,
are not Acknowledgement as commits
sioners to lay out roads, commissioners of
public works, visitors of State institutions,
examiners of banks, notaries or public
commissioners to take Acknowledgements of
deeds. Concurred in unanimously, but
the Secretary of State, the Secretary of
the Treasury and the Secretary Of War
express the opion that lawyers are such
officers as are disqualified, if they pirtici-
pated 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 participa-
ton in the rebellion.
Fourteenth: An act to fix upon per-
son the ofiense of engaging in rebellion
under this law, must be an overt and vol
untary act, done with the intent of aiding
or furthering the common unlawful pur-
pose A person forced into the Rebel ser
vice by conscription or under a paramount
authority, which he could not safely DISC
hey, 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. All vote aye, except the
Secretary of War, who voted nay, as the
proposition is stated.
. Fifteenth Mere acts of charity, where
the intent is to relieve the wants of the OBJ
ject of such charity and not done in aid of
the cause in which he may have been en-
gagged, do not disqualify, but organized
contributions of food and clothing for the
general relief of persons engaged in the
rebellion, and not of merely sanitary
character, but contributed to enable them
to perform the unlawful object, may be
elassed with acts which do disqnaIify.
Forced contributions to the Rebel cause, in
the form oftaxes or military assessments,
which person was compelled to pay or
contribute, do not disqualify. But yolun-
tary contributions to the Rebel cause, even
such indirect contributions as arise from
the voluntary loan Of money 10 Rebel
authorities, or purchase of bonds or securi-
ties created to afford the means of carrying
on the rebellion, work disqualifcatiens.
Concurred in unanimously.
Sixteenth: All those who in legislative
or other official capacity, were engaged in
the futherance of the common unlawful
purpose, where the duties of the Office
necessarily had relation to the support of
the rebellion, such as members of the Rebel
Conventions, Congresses and Legislatures,
Diplomatic Agents of the Rebel Confed-
eracy, and other officials, whose offices
were creatad for the purpose of more eff
fectually carrying on hostilities, or whose
duties appertained TO the support of the
Rebel cause, must be held to be disqualified.
But officers who, during the rebellion, dis
charged official duties not incident to the
war, but only such duties as belong even to
a state Of peace, and were necessary to the
preservation of order and the administers
ton of law, are not to be considered as
thereby engaging in rebellion, as disquali-
fed. Disloyal sentiments, opinions or
sympathies, would not disqualify, but
where person has by speech or by writ
ing, melted others to engage in rebellion,
he must come under the disqualification.
All vote aye except the Secretary of War,
who dissents to the second paragraph with
the exception of the words" Where a
person has by speech OF by writing excited
others to engage in rebellion, he must
come under the disqualification"
Seventeenth: The duty of the board APP
pointed to superintend the election. The
board having the custody of the list of re-
gistered 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, but, if such proves to be the
fact, it is the duty of the board to receive
his vote if then qualified by residence.
They canoot receive the vote of any person
whose name is not upon the list though he
may be ready to take the registration oath
and although he may satisfy them that he
was unable to have his name registered at
the proper time in consequence of absence,
sickness or other cause. The board can
not enter into any inquiry as to the qualifi-
cations of any person whose name is not
on the registration list, or as to the qualif-
cations of any persons whose name is on
the list. Coneurred in unanimously.
Eighteenth The mode of voting is pro-
vided in the act to be by ballot The board
will keep record and poll book of the
election, showing the votes, list of voters
and the persons elected by a plurality of
the votes cast at the election and make re-
turns of these to the commanding General
of the district. Concurred in unanimously.
Nineteenth: The board appointed for
registration and for experimenting the
elections must take the oath prescribed by
the act of Congress, approved June I'd,
1862, entitled "An act to prescribe an oath
of Office" Concurred in unanimously.
In CABINET, June 20, S67.-Present,
the same Cabinet officers as on the 18th
inst, excepting the acting Secretary of the
Interior.
The President announced to the Cabinet
that after full deliberation he concurred
with the majority upon those sections OF
the summary upon which the Secretary of
War expressed his dissent, and that he
concurred with the Cabinet upon those Sec
tions approved by unanimous vote; that as
it appeared the military commanders en-
tertained doubts upon the points covered
by the summary, and as their action hith-
erto had not been uniform, he deemed it
proper without further delay to commune
cate in a general order, TO the respective
commanders, the points set forth in the
summary.
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