The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-06-16

James Grant, Union.
The Slx-State Southern Admission
ssh sa+, ;is'fse Bill. &G
The following is the text of the
omnibus admission bill, passed by the
Senate, on Wednesday night:
An Act to admit the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louis
lana, Georgia, Alabama and Flo
rida to representation in Congress.
Whereas the people of North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Louisiana,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida have,
in pursuance of the provisions of an
Act entitled can Act for the more
efficient government of the rebel
States," passed March 2, 1867, and
the Acts supplementary thereto,
framed constitutions of State govern
ment which are Republican, and
have adopted said constitutions by
large majorities of the votes cast at
the elections held for the ratification
or rejection of the same; therefore,
SECTION l. Be ii endcted, &c., That
each of the States of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida shall be en-
titled and admitted to representation
in Congress as State of the Union
when the Legislature of such State
shall have duly ratified the amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States proposed by the
Thirty-ninth Congress, and known
as article fourteen, upon the follow
ing fundamental conditions: That
the constitutions of neither of said
States shall ever be so amended or
changed as to deprive any citizen or
class of citizens in the United States
Of the right to vote who are entitled
to vote in said State by the constitu-
ton thereof herein recognized, ex-
cept rs punishment for such crimes
rs are now felonies at common law,
whereof they shall have been duly
convicted under laws equally applica-
BILE to all the inhabitants OF said
States; provided that any alteration
of said constitutions, prospective in
its effect, may be made in regard to
time and place of residence of the
voters; and the State of Georgia shall
only be entitled and admitted to
representation upon this further
fundamental condition.: that the first
and third subdivisions of section
seventeen of the fifth article of the
constitution of said State, except the
proivso to the first sub division, shall
be null and void, and that the Gene
raj Assembly of said State, by solemn
public. act, shall declare the assent of
the State to the foregoing funda-
mental condition.
SEC. 2. And be 1t further enacted,
That if the time fixed for the meet
ing OF the Legislature of either Of
the said States by the convention
thereof shall have passed, or shall
have SO nearly arrived before the
passage of this Act that there shall
not be time for the Legislature to
assemble at the time fixed by the
convention of said State, such Legis-
lature shall convene at the end of
twenty days from the time this ACT
takes effect, unless the Governor shall
sooner convene the same.
SEC. 3. That the first section of
this Act shall take effect as to each
State, except Georgia, when such
Otate Shail, Dy lts Legislature, duly
ratify article fourteen of the amend
ments to the Constitution of the
United States proposed by the
Thirty ninth Congress, and as to the
State of Georgia, when it shall, in
addition, give the assent of said State
to the fundamental condition herein
before imposed upon the same: and
thereupon the officers of each State,
duly elected and qualified under the
constitution thereof, shall be in
augurated without delay; but nc
person prohibited from holding Office
under the United States or under any
State by section three of the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States known as article four.
teen shall be deemed eligible to any
Office in either of said States, unless