The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1868-06-18
Glorious Progress in Recon
StructiOD.

for the admission ofsix States which
has passed both Houses of Congress.
and is before the President awaiting
his approval or veto.
An act to admit the States Of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Lousi
ana, Georgia and Florida to rep
resentation in Congress.
WHEREAS, The people Of Nortl
Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, have
in pursuance of the provisions of al
act, entitled an act, for the NOR,
efficient government of the rebe
States, passed March Cd, 1867, ant
the act supplementary thereto, fran
ed Constitutions of State Govern
ment which are republican, and haye
adopted said Constitutions by large
majorities of the votes cast at the
election held for the ratification Of
repeating of the same, therefore be
it enacted that each of the States O
North Carolina, South Carolina
louisiana, Georgia, Alabama an6
Florida shall be entitled, and admit
ted to representation in Congress
as State Of the Union, when the
Legislatures of such States shal
have duly ratified the amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
proposed by the thirty-ninth Con
gress, aud known as article four
teenth, upon the following funda
mental conditions:
SECTION l. That the constitution Of
neither of said States shall ever be
SO amended or changed as to deprive
any citizens or class of citizens OF
the United States of the right to
vote in said State, who are entitled
to vote by the constitution thereof
herein recognized, except as punish
ment Of such crimes as are now fell
onious at common law, whereof they
shall have been duly convicted un-
der laws equally applicable to all the
inhabitants of said State; provided
any alteration of said constitutions
prospective in it's effect may be made
with regard to the time and place OF
residence of voters.
And the State of Georgia shall on
ly be entitled and admitted to repre-
sentation upon this further funda-
mental condition that the first and
third subdivisions of Section II OF
the 9Th Article of the Constitution
of said State, except the proviso to
the first subdivision shall be null and
void, and that the General Assembly
of said State by solemn public act
shall declare the assent of the
State to the foregoing fundamental
condition.
Sec. 2. That if the day fixed for
the first meeting of the Legislature
of either of said States, Constitution
or ordinance thereof shall have pas
sed or so nearly arrived before the
passage Of this act that there shall
not be time for the Legislature to
assemble at the period fixed, such
Legislature to convene at the end of
twenty DAYS from the time this act
shall take effect, unless the Govern
or elect shall sooner convene the
same.
Sec. 8. That the first section of
this act shall take effect as to each
State except Georgia when such
State shall by it's Legislature duly
ratify Article 4 of the amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
proposed by the thirty ninth Con-
gress; and as to the State of Geor-
gia when it shall in addition give
the assent Of said State to the fun
damental condition herein before
imposed upon the same, and there
upon the officers Of each State duly
elected and qualified under the Con
stitution thereof, shall be Inaugural
ted without delay. But no person
prohibited from holding office under
the United States, or under any
State, by the section of the proposed
to the Constitution of
the United States known as Article
IA, shall be eligible to any office in
either of said States, unless relieved
from disability as provided in said
and it is hereby made
the duty of the President, within ten
days after receiving official informa-
tion of the ratification ofsaid amend
ment by the Legislature of either Of
said States, to issue proclamation
announcing that fact.
The following is the Arkansas
bill.
Whereas the people Of Arkansas,
in pursuance Of the provision of
an act entitled can act for the more
efficient government of rebel States"
passed March 2, 1867, and the acts
supplementary thereto, have framed
and adopted constitution of State
government which is Republican in
form, and the Legislature of said
State has duly ratified the amend
ment to the Constitutions of the
United States, proposed by the thir-
ty-ninth Congress and known as ar
ticle IA: Therefore &C., That the
State Of Arkansas is entitled and ad-
mitted to representation in Congress
as one of the States of. the Union
upon the following fundamental con-
dition: That the constitution of
shall never 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 by the constitution
herein recognized, except as a pun
ishment for such crimes as are now
felonies at common law, whereof
they shall have been duly convicted
under laws equally applicable to all
the inhabitants of said State Pro-
u'ded, That any alteration Of said