The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-09
@RECONsTRUCTION.
s supplementary Reconstrnction Bill.

The following Is the teXb. OtFhe Oeuale;
Supplementary reconstruction bill, as it pass
ed both Houses: I7t6 a5TIlJ
SEC. I. Be At enacted 6v the Senate, and
| House of Representatives Of the United St0tes
| of AmericG IN Congress assembled, That it Is
! hereby declared to have been the true intent
| and meaning of the act of March 2d, A. d.
| 1867, 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, We're to be
continued subject in all respects to the Mill
tary Commanders of the respective Districts
and to the authority of Congress. -lt -
SEC. 2. And be it 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 CONF
mander the proper administration OF said
act shall require it, to suspend or re-
move from ol,ice, or from the performance
of official duties and the exercise OF official
powers, any officer or person holding or eX-
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 munlclpal 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
nfc off ar q SnSnpnO9CI.
moved, by the detail Of some competent Of
ticer or soldier of the army or by the APP
pointment Of some other person to perform
the same. and to fill vacancies accustomed by
death, resignation or otherwise.
SEC 3. Ind be 1t 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. 49,
SEC. 4. ind be it further enacted, That
the acts Of the officers OF the army already
done in removing in said districts persons
exccisiny the functions of civil officers and
appointing others in their stead, are hereby
confirmed provided that any person hereto
fore hereafter appointed by any district
commander to exercise the functions of any
civil Ice may be removed, either by the
military officer in command of the district
by the General of the army and it shall be
tue duty Of commanders to remove from Of
flee, 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. u
SEC. ). Ind be it Jurther enacted, That
the boards of registration provided tor in
IL, Id 4
All act entitled An act to provide for the
more efficient government OF the rebel
States passed March 2, 1867, and to facili-
tate restoration" passed March %, 1867,
shall have power, and it shall be their duty
before the allowing tue 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 boardD any one touch
my the qualification of any person claiming
registration. But In every case of a refusal
by the board to register an applicant, made
in every case hereinafter provided, the board
shall make a note or memorandum, which
shall be returned with the registration list to
the commanding Generals of the Districts,
setting forth the ground of such refusal, or
such striking from the list: Provided, that
no person shall be disqualified, as a member
of any board of registration, by reason of
race or color.
SEC. 6. ind be it further enacted, That
the true intent and meaning of the oath pre-
scribed i'll said supplementary act is, (among
other things,) that no person who has been
a member of the Legislature of any State,
or who has held any executive or judicial
office in avg State, whether he has taken an
oath to s1pporc the Constitution of the Uni.
ted States not, and whether he was hold
ing such office at the commencement of the
rebellion or had held it before and who has
afterwards engaged i'll insurrection or rebel
lion againstthe United States or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to
be registered or to vote and the words eek
ecutive judicial Office in any State in
said oath mentioned shall be construed to
include all civil offices created by law for the
of the general law of the
State, or for the administration of justice
Sec. z. And be 1t further enacted, That the
time for completing the original registration
provided for in said act may, in the discre-
ton of the commander of any district, be |
extended to the LIST day of October, 1867; |
and the boards of registration shall have
power, and 1T shall be their duty, eommenc-
ing fourteen days prior to airy election under i
said act, and upon reasonable public notice
Of the time and place thereof, to revise for
period of three days the registration lists |
and upon being satisfied that any person not
entitled thereto has been registered, to strike
the name OF such person from the list. And |
such hoard shall also, during the same peri
od. add to such registry the names of all
persons who at that time possess the aualifi-
cations required by said act who have not
been already registered, and no person shall
at any time be entitled to be registered or to
vote by reason of any executive pardon or
for any act or thing which, with
out such pardon or amnesty, would disqual-
fly him from registration or voting
Sec g. And be it ,ftrtter enacted, That
gee. of the said last-named act shall be con-
,trued to authorize the commanding general
named therein, whenever he shall deem it
needful, to remove any member of a board /
If registration, and to appoint another per
ION in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in
uch board. ] -
Sec. 8. That all members Of said Boards /