The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-31
RECONSTRUCTION.
Supplementary Reconstruction Bill.

Supplementary Reconstruction piii' DIS IL pass
ed both Houses: y
SEC 1 Be 1T enacted 6u the Senate ana
House of REPRESENTATIVES Of the United States
of 4merico in Congress assembled, That it is
! hereby declared to have been the true intent
and meaning of the act OF March "a, A u
| 1857. entitled an act to provide Tor the more
efficient government OF the rebel States
and of the act supplementary thereto, passed
on the 23d day of March, IN the year Eo67,
that the governments, then existing IN the
rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia. MISSISSIPPI, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas ana Arkan-
sas, were illegal and void, and thereafter the
same. governments, if continued, were to be
continued subject in all respects to the Mill
tary COMMANDERS of the respective Districts
and to the authority of Congress-.
Sec. 2. Ind be 1t. further eraacted. That the
commander of any district named in said act
shall have power, subject to the approval OF
the General of the armies of the United
States. to have effect till disapproved,
whenever in the opinion of such COM
mander the proper administration Of said
act shall require it, to suspend or re-
move from oiice, or from the performance
of official duties and the exercise of official
powers, any officer or person holding or eX-
ercising, or protesting to hold or exercise
any civil or military office, or duty in such
district under any power, election, appoint
ment or authority derived from or granted
by, or claimed under any so-called State or
the government thereof, or any municipal or
other division thereof, and upon such sus-
pension or removal such commander, subject
to the approval of the General aforesaid,
shall have power to provide from time to
time fol the performance OF the said duties
of such officer or person, so suspended or re-
moved, by the detail Of some competent Of
ficer or soldier of the army or by the APP
pointment of some other person to perform
death, resignation or otherwise.
SEC. 5. Ind be it further enacted, That
the General of the armies of the United
States shall be invested with all the power of
suspension, removal, appointment and detail
granted in the preceding section to district
commanders.
Sec. 4. Ind be 1T further enacted, That
the acts of the officers of the army already
done in removing in said districts persons
exercising the functions of civil officers and
others in their stead, are hereby
confirmed !; provided that any person hereto
fore or hereafter appointed by any district
to exercise the functions of any
civil Office may be removed, either by the
military officer in command of the district or
by the General of the army and it shall be
the duty of commanders to remove from of
fee, as aforesaid, all person who are disloyal
to the government of the United States, or
who use their official influence in any manner
to hinder, delay, prevent or obstruct the due
and proper administration of this act, and
the acts to which this is supplementary.
SEC ). Ind be 1t further enacted, That
the boards of registration provided for in
tile act entitled IAN 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 facili-
shall have power, and it shall be their duty
before the allowing the registration of any
person, to ascertain, upon such facts or in
formation 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 registered unless such |
board shall decide that he Is entitled there |
to; and such board shall also have power to |
examine under oath Ito he administered by |
any member of such board) any one touch |
ing the qualification of any person claiming |
registration. But in every case of a refusal |
by the board to register an applicant, made |
n every case hereinafter provided, the board !
shall make a note or memorandum, which |
shall be returned with the registration list to
he commanding Generals of the Districts,
setting forth the ground of such refusal, or
uch striking from the list: Provided, that
10 person shall be disqualified, as a member
If any board of registration, by reason of
ace or color.
Sec. 6. And be 1T further enacted, That
he true intent and meaning of the oath pre-
cribed in said supplementary act is, (amcng
'ther things,) that no person who has been
member OF the Legislature of any State,
" who has held any executive or judicial
'fice in any State, whether he has taken an
'ath to support the Constitution of the Uni
ne such Office at the commencement of the
ebellion or had held it before, and who has
engaged in instruction or rebel
ion againstthe United States, or given aid or
omfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to
'e registered or to vote; and the words tex
cutive or judicial Office in any State" in
aid oath mentioned shall be construed to
include all civil offices created by law for the
administration of the general law OF the
tate, or for the administration of justice.
Sec. Z. Ind be 1t. further enacted, That the
ime for completing the original registration
provided for in said act may in the discre-
ion of the commander of any district, be
xtended to the list day of October, 1867; {
nd the boards of registration shall have
ower, and it shall be their duty, commenc-
ng fourteen days prior to any election under
aid act, and upon reasonable public notice
f the time and place thereof, to revise for a I
eriod of three days the registration lists :;
nd upon being satisfied that any person not
ntitled thereto has been registered, to strike
he name of such person from the list. And !
UGH board shall also, during the same peri
d. add to such registry the names of all {
ersons who at that time possess the qualifi- I
atoms required by said act who have not =
cen already registered, and no person shall $
t any time be entitled to be registered or to
ote by reason of any executive pardon or (
for any act or thing which, with t
ut such pardon or amnesty, would disqual-
y him from registration or voting /
Sec. 8. Ind be 1t further enacted, That
&C. 4 of the said last-named act shall be con-
5rued to authorize the commanding general f
AIMED therein, whenever he shall deem it T
eedful, to remove any member of a board
registration, and to appoint another per- c
IN in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in 9
1ch board. /
SEC. 9. That all members of said Boards Z