The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-07-08
Headquarters Second Military District
i, CHARLESTON, =. c., June %, 1868.

GENERAL ORDERS, si
~ No. LII. ~ g|ic3 sii h5i ezra 1issoa .
The following law of the United statesis pub
lished forg eneralinformation:i biss r2eg-o .
tale a5laa 81 IAN ACT 8 3g sg ati
TO admit the States of North Garolina South
?, Cauvlind, Louisat,d, q Georgia, AlGbama,
> and Florida to Representation IN Congress.
re WHEREAS, the people OF North.Carolina
South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama
and Florida have, in pursuance of the provis-
ions of an act entitled AN act for; the more
efficient government of the rebel States,p pass
cd March second, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven, and the acts supplementary thereto,
framed constitutions of State government which
are republican, and have adopted such constitu-
lions by large majorties of the votes east at the
elections held for the ratification or rejection of
the same; Therefore,. i6 81 = ~ y
! Be itendcted By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatiues the United States Of America in Con-
gress assembled That each of the States of
North Carolina, I'D South Carolina, louisiana,
Georgia, Alabama, and Florida shall be entitled
and admitted to representation in. Congress as
State of the Union when the Legislature OF such
State shall have duly ratified the amendment to
the Constitution If the United States proposed
by the Thirty Ninth Congress, and known as
article fourIeen, Upon the following fundanen-
tai 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 of tie United States of the right to
vote in said Stale WHIP are entitled t0vOte by the
constitution thereofhercin recognized except as
a punishment for such crimes us are now felonies
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
made with regard to the time and place of resi-
dcnce of voters; and the State of Georgia shall
only he entitled and admitted tIon
upon this further 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 SUBJ
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. e'Hi Ter
SECTION 2. And be it further edacted, 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 theipassage of
this Act, that there, shall not be time for the
Legislature to assemble at the period fixed,
such Legislature shall convene at the end, Of
twenty days from the time this act takes effect,
unless the Governor, elect shall sooner convene
the same. t'' rs
SECTION g. And be IL further enacted, That the
first section of this act shall take effect as to
each State, except Georgia, when such State
fourteen of the amendments to the Constitu-
ton of the United States proposed by the
39th Congress, and, US to the State of Georgia,
when it shall, in addition, give the assent said
State to the fundamental condition lhereinbefore
imposed upon the same : and thereupOnthe Off
GERS of each State, duly elected and qualified un-
der the constitution thereof, shall be inaugura-
ted without delay; but no person prohibited
! from holding Office under the United States, or
under any State,2 by Section of the proposed
Lii
States known Us Article Fourteen, snail 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 Legis-
lature of either of said States, to issue procla-
nation announcing that fact. (Rdssed June 25,
4 TIE 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- ''convene at; the end of
twenty days from the time this Act takes effect,
unless the Governor elect shall sooner convene
the same, and directing that when any State
shall, by its Legislature July ratify Article Four
teen OF the amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, proposed by the Thirty-ninth
Congress, the, officers of such State. "duly
elected and qualified under the Constitution
thereof, shall be inaugurated without delay
are regarded as dispensing W til the oath OF office
prescribed by the law of July 9 1862, SO far as it
Concerns the members elect o. the Legislature
who are not disqualified by the constitutional
amendment known as Article Fourteen. Ac
cordingly, so much oil the provisions Of General
Orders No. 70, of May 2, 1868, and No. SO, of
May II, 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 thir offices, is hereby revoked.
By Command of ~
Bvt Major General Ed; R; s; CANBY: a