Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-06-18

States nor any State shall assume or pay any ueDt
or obligation incurred in aid Of insurrectiou or re-
belion against the United States, or claim tor the
loss or emancipation of any slaves, but all such
debts. obligations or claims shall be held illegal and
void
Sect IN s. The Congress of the United States
shall have power to enforce by appropriate legsla-
ton, the provisions of this article.
Also, upon the following fundamental 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 in the United States
of the right to vote who are entitled to vote IN said
State BY the constitution thereof herein recognized
except as a punishment 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 States; provided that
any alteration of said constitutions, prospective in
its effect, may be made in regard to time and place
of residence of the voters; and the State OF Geor-
gia shall only be entitled and admitted to repre-
Sentation upon this further fundamental condition.
thai the first and third subdivisions of section
enteen of the fifth article of the constitution OF
said State except the proviso to the first subdivi
sion, 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. And be it further enacted, That if the
time fixed for the meeting Of the Legislature OF
either of the said States by the convention there
of shall have passed, or shall have no nearly ar
rived before the passage of this act that there
shall not be time for the Legislature to assemble
at the time fixed by the convention of said State
such Legislature shall convene at the end of twen-
tv days from the time this act takes effect, unless
the Governor shall sooner convene the same.
Section That the first section of this act shall
take effect as to each State except Georgia, when
such State sha by its Legislature, duly ratty ar
ticle IA of the amendments to the constitution OF
the United States proposed by the Thirty. y.ninth
Congress, and as to the State of Georgia. when it
SHALL in addition, give the assent Of said State to
the fundamental condition hereinbetore imposed
upon the same and thereupon the officers 6f each
State, duly elected and qualified under the consti-
tuition thereof, shall be inaugurated without de-
Law; but no person prohibited from holding Office
under the United States or under any State by Sec
ton three of the proposed amendment to the con-
stituton of the United States known as article four
teen 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 re-:
ceving official information of the ratification of said
States, to issue q proclamation announcing that
fact.
The articles of the Georgia Constitution referred
to are as follows:
Section XVII. No court in this State shall have
Jurisdiction to try or determine any suit against
any resident of this State, upon any contract or
agreement made or implied, or upon any contract
made in renewal of any debt existing prior to the
first day of June, 1865. Nor shall any court OF
ministerial officer of this State have authority
to enforce any Judgment, execution or decree,
rendered or issued upon any contract or agreement
made or implied, or upon any contract in renewal
of debt existing prior to the first day of June
1865. except in the following cases:
Provided, That no court or officer shall have
nor shall the General Assembly give jurisdiction
or authority to try or give judgment on, enforce
apy debt, the consideration which was slave or
slaves, or the hire thereof
III. It shall be in the power of the General
Assembly to assess and collect upon all debts,
judgments, or causes of action when due, founded
on any contract made or implied before the tlrst
day of June 1865, in the hands of any one in his
own right, or as trustee, agent or attorney OF an
other, on or after the first day Of January, 1868,
q tax of not exceeding 25 per cent, to be paid by
the creditor, on pain Of the forfeiture Of the debt,
but chargeabe by him as to half thereof against
the debtor, and collectable with the debt: Proyi-
ded That this tax shall not be collected if the debt
or cause of action be abandoned or settled without
legal process, or, finjudgment, be settled without