The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-05
-REooNsFRUGEIoN.


supplementary Reconstruction Bill.
The following is the text of the Senate
Supplementary reconstruction bill, asst pass
| ed both Houses :: 'i3-A' W. ~
SEC Il Be 1T enacted 5p the Senate and
House of REPRESENTATIVES Of the United States
! of Aaneyica an COa0yess assembled That it is
hereby declared to have been the true intent
| and meaning of the act of March I'd, A. ID.
| 1857. entitled an act to provide for the more
| efficient government of the rebel States,
and of the act supplementary thereto, passed
on the 23d day of March, in the year 1867,
that the governments, then existing IN the
rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia. Mississippi, Ala
bama Louisiana, Florida, Texas and 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 Command ers of the respective Districts
and to the authority of Congress.
SEC. 2. And be 1t, further enacted. 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 persofi, 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
the SAME, and to fill vacancies occasioned by
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 f. Aad be 1t further enacted, That
the acts of the officers of the army already
done in removing in said districts persons
execising the functions of civil officers and
others in their stead, are hereby
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
l,oir N inf
10 hinder delay, prevent or obstruct the due
md proper administration of this act, and
he acts to Which this is supplementary
SEC. 5. And be it t'urther enacted, That
he boards of registration provided for in
he act entitled IAN act supplementary to
IN act entitled An act to provide for the
more efficient government of the rebel
states passed March 2. 1857, and to facili-
ate restoration" passed March %, 1867,
hail have power, and it shall be their duty
,ctore the allowing the registration of any
person. to ascertain, upon such facts or in
as they can obtain. whether such
,ersOn is entitled to be registered under
aid act, and the oath required by said act
hall not be conclusive on such question,
nd no person shall be registered unless such
oard shall decide that he is entitled there
o; and such board shall also have power to
Xamine under oath Ito be administered by
ny member of such board) any one touch
lg the qualification of any person claiming
egistration. But in every case of a refusal
Y the board to register an applicant, made
1 every case hereinafter provided, the board
hall make a note or memorandum, which
nall be returned with the registration list to
ne commanding Generals of the Districts,
citing forth the ground of such refusal, or
lch striking from the list: Provided, that
o person shall be disqualified. as member
any board of registration, by reason of
ice or color.
SEC. 6. and be 1t further enacted, That
lie true intent and meaning of the oath pre-
ribbed in said supplementary act is, (amcng
Their things,) that no person who has been
member of the Legislature of any State,
who has held any executive or judicial
flee in any State, whether he has taken an
ath to support the Constitution of the Uni
ii States or not, and whether he was hold
~ such office at the commencement of the
belion or had held it before, and who has
forwards engaged in instruction or rebel
on againstthe United States, or given aid or
,mfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to
.Iegistered or to vote; and the words ex-
,utive or judicial office in any State" in
id oath mentioned shall be construed to
clude all civil Offices created by law for the
of the general law of the
tate, or for the administration of justice.
Sec. 7. And be 1t further enacted That the
me for completing the original registration
rovided for in said act may, in the discre-
on of the commander of any district, be
tended to the 1st day of October, 1867;
i'd the boards of registration shall have
over, and 1t shall be their duty, commence
g fourteen days prior to any election under
id act and upon reasonable public notice
the time and place thereof, to revise for a
eriod of three days the registration lists;
I'd upon being satisfied that any person not
TITLED thereto has been registered, to strike
e name of such person from the list And
ch board shall Also during the same peri
I. add to such registry the names of all
,rsons who at that time possess the qualifi-
tions required by said act who have not
zen already registered, and no person shall
any time be entitled to be registered or to
tie by reason Of any executive pardon or
nnesty, for any act or thing which, with
1t such pardon or amnesty would disqual-
' him from registration or voting.
Sec. 8. Ind be 1t further enacted, That