The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-02
The5.ro,S bMng law of the United States sSput
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(, /SPN AN ACT -. H

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To admit the States Of North Carolinn, South
Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, 1tnbCt'7a0
and FlOridG to Representation IN Congress-
WHEREAS, the people of North Carolina,
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama
and Florida have, in pursuance of the provis-
ions of an act entitled g An act for the more
efficient government Of the rebel States" pass
ed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven, and the acts supplementary thereto,
framed constitutions of State government which
are republican, and have adopted such consttu
tions by large majorities OF the votes cast at the
elections held for the ratification or rejection OF
the same; Therefore,
Be itesacted 6y the Senate and House of Repre-
SentdtiveS Of the United States Of america IN COat-
gress assembled, That each OF the States OF
North Carolina, South Carolina, louisiana,
Georgia, Alabama, and Florida shall be entitled
and admitted to representation in Congress as a
State of the Union when the Legislature OF such
State shall have duly ratified the amendment to
the Constitution If the United States proposed
article fourteen, upon the following fundanen-
tai conditions: That the constitutions OF neither
of said States shall ever be amended
or changed as to deprive any citizen or class
of citizens of the United States of the right to
vote in said State who entitled to vote by the
constitution thereof herein recognized except as
punishment for such crimes as are now ielonles
at common law, whereof they shall have been
duly convicted under laws equally applicable to
all the inhabitants of said State; Provided, That
any alteration OF said Constitutions may be
dence Of voters; and the State OF Georgia shall
only be entitled and admitted to representation
upon this fuI ther fundamental condition: that
the first and third sub divisions of section seven
teen of the fifth article of the constitution of
said State, except the proviso to the first sub
division, 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.
SECTION 2. dnd be ii further eddcted, That If
the day fixed for the first meeting of the Legis-
lature of either OF said States, by the Con
stitution or Ordinance thereof shall have passed,
or have 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 shalT convene at the end OF
twenty days IN the time THE act takes effect,
unless the Governor elect shall sooner convene
the same
first section of this act shall take effect to
each State, except Georgia, when such State
shall, by its Legislature, duly ratify article
ton of the United States proposed by the
39th Congress, and as to the State of Georgia,
when it shall, in addition, give the assent as said
State to the fundamental condition herein before
imposed upon the same and thcreupon the Off
GERS of each State, duly elected and qualified I'M
der the constitution thereof, shall be Inaugural
ted without delay; but no person prohibited
from holding office. under the United States, or
under any State, by Section 3 of the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the United
States known as Article Fourteen, shall be
deemed eligible to any Office in either of said
States unless relieved from disability as pro-
vided in said amendment. And it is hereby
made the duty of the President, within ten
DAYS after receiving official information of
the ratification of said amendment by the Lcgis-
lature of either of said States, to issue procla
nation announcing that fact. (Rlssed Jxne %
1852
The provisions of the second and third sections
of the foregoing law, authorizing and requiring
the Legislatures of the several States embraced
in its operation to "convcne at the end OF
twenty days from the time this Act takes effect,
unless the Governor elect shall sooner convene
the same" AMI directing that when any State
SHALL by its Legislature duly ratify Article Four.
teen of the amendments to the Constitution OF
the United States, proposed by the Thirty-nlnth
Congress, the officers of such State, duly
elected and qualified under the CONSTITUTE ion
thereof, shall be inauguratcd without delay,
are regarded as dispensing w tn the oath of office
prescribed by the law of July q 1862 so far as 1t
concerns the members elect o. the Legislature
who are not disqualified by the constitutional
amendment known as Article Fourteen. Ac-
cordingly, so much OF the provisions of General
Orders No. 70, of May 2, 1868, and No. 81, OF
May IL, 1868, as requires the members elect OF
the General Assembly of the States OF North
Carolina and South Carolina, respectively, to
take the oath of Office prescribed by the Act OF
July 2, 1862, before entering upon the discharge
of the duties of their offices, is hereby revoked
By Command OF
Bvt. Major General ED: R. s: CANDY:
LOUIS Y. CAZIARC,
~ Actg Asst. Adjt. Genl. q