The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-07-21
OFFICIAII.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at the Second Session of the
F6rtieth Congress.
Run1Ic-Nn III


An Act to admit the States of North
Carolina, South Carolina, Louis
lana, Georgia, Alabama, and Flori-
da, 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 8 An act for the
more efficient government of the
rebel States" passed March second,
eighteen hundred and sixty-seyen,
aud the acts supplementary there
to, framed constitutions of State
government which are republican,
and have adopted said constitutions
by large majorities of the votes cast
&c the elections held for the ratifica-
ton or rejection Of the same: There
fore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That each Of the States of
North Carolina, South Carolina, Lou
Islam, Georgia, Alabama and Florida,
shall be entitled and admitted TO rep.
resentation in Congress as a State of
the Union when the legislature Of such
Suite shall have duly ratified the
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States proposed by the thirty
ninth CONGRESS, and known as article
fourteen, upon the following funda-
mental conditions: That the consti-
tutions of neither of said States shall
ever be so 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 are entitled to
vote by the constitution thereof herein
recognized, except as punishment for
such crimes as are now telonies at COM
mon law, whereof they shall have
been duly convicted under laws equal
| ly applicable to all the inhabitants Of
said State: Provided, That any alter
alton of said constitution may be
made with regard to the time and
place of residence of voters; and the
State of Georgia shall only be entitled
and admitted to representation upon
| this further fundamental condition:
1 that the first and third subdivisions
of section seventeen of the fifth arti-
| Gle of the constitution of said State,
except the proviso to the first subdi-
vision, shall be null and void, and
that the general assembly of said
State by solemn public act shall de-
| clare the assent of the State to the
| foregoing fundamental condition.
| Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
/ That if the day fixed for the first
meeting of the legislature of either of
said States by the constitution or
ordinance thereof shall have passed,
or have so nearly arrived before the
massage of this act that there shall
not. be time for the legislature to as
se1fble at the period fixed, such legis-
-lature shall convene at the end of
twenty days from the time this act
| takes effect, unless the governor elect
| shall sooner convene the same
| Sec. 3. And be it further enacted,
That the first section of this act shall
take effect as to each State. except
| Georgia, when such State shall, by its
legislature, duly ratify article four
| teen of the amendments to the Con-
stitution of the United States, pro-
| posed 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 condi-
tion hereinbefore imposed upon the
same; and thereupOn the officers of
each State duly elected and qualified
under the constitution thereof, shall
be inaugurated without delay; but no
person prohibited from holding office
under the United States, or under
any State, by section three Of the
proposed amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States, known as
article fourteen, shall be deemed ELI
gible to any office in either of said
States, unless relieved from disability
as provided in said amendments; and
it is hereby made the duty of the
! President within ten days after re-
ceiving official information OF the
ratification of said amendment by the
4 legislature of either of said States to
issue a proclamation announcing that
/ SCHUYLER CoLFAx,
Sneaker of the House of Representa-
tives.
B. f. WADE.
President of the Senate pro tempore
IN THE House OF REPRESENTATIVES,, I
U. s., June 25th 1868. I
| The President Of the TTnitad Ctotae