The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-30
The Reconstruetion Ccnyen EN-. Ion V,
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lief ordinance was discussed to-day u
removes the Jurisdiction Of oil State courts
| in matters of contract or debt, and sus-
pends all process for the collection of all
debts created before May. 1865, until July,
1868, or until the new Constitution and
Government 90 into effect. Il requests
General Candy to enforce these regula-
lions. No definite action was taken.
A resolution was adopted authorizing q
committee to effect loan Of $4,000 to
pay the mileage of members. s.ts
SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLEsroN, January 29.-The proprie-
tors and editors of the Mercury were to-
day excluded from the floor Of the Con-
yention. This was done to prevent
breaches of the peace and personal coils
ions on the floor. .sfsse e5s,I tiatf r9e7
Resolutions were introduced for the
purchase by the State of all lands forced
on the market, then to be sold to actual
settlers and asking Congress to appropri-
ate the collected cotton tax of South Ca
rolina 3,0OO,O 0O) for purchasing lands to
be sold to the poor. ~ -
An ordinance providing for taxation to
the amount of s75, 900 to pay the expenses
of the Convention was adopted. III
ss- GEORGIA. f 81.
ATLANTA, January 29.-The relief ordi-
nance was made the special order of the
day for Friday next. = = ....s.. ..g.= I'll.
Five additional sections of the Bill of
Rights were adopted. Taxation is to be
ad valorem only, and uniform on allpro-
perty taxed. The poll tax is not to ex-
coed one dollar, and to be exclusively ap-
piled to educational purposes. The twenty
fourth section reads: i" The social status
of the citizen shall never be the subject of
legislation" -.
General Meade, in circular letter in
l'reply to inquiries as to the proper con-
struction of the Convention ordinances
legalized by him, says tits not his province
nor has he the leisure to answer. These
orders, he says, are superseded by his
orders, and are to be deemed part of the
laws of the States in which they were re.
spectively adopted, and construed and en-
forced by the courts accordingly. =.
LOUISIANA. yTs ,raes i
New ORLEANS, January 29.--Article 9S
of the constitution as adopted disfran
chises all persons who shall have been con
victed of treason, perjury, forgery, bribery
or other crimes punishable by imprison
ment at hard labor; all paupers and per
sons under Introduction, and all leaders o.
officers of guerilla bands during the lat'
war. The following are disfranchiset
until after January l, 1878: AL person
who before the 1st of June, 1861, held TIT
office of Vice-P President, Secretary o
State, War, Interior, Treasury, Postmaste
General, Attorney General, diplomatic
agents, members of Congress, or judges o
Supreme and District Courts Of the United
States, governor, acknowledgement o.
this or other States, judges of the Supreme
and District Courts of this State, judges o.
the courts of last resort in other States, Of
members of the Legislature of this State
since the adoption of the Constitution o
1852, who approved or encouraged tn
secession of this State or any other State
members of the Secession Convention VIII
voted for or signed the ordinance of Sc
cession, and commissioned officers Of tn
army or navy of the United States VIII
was at any time engaged in the late rebel
lion Provided, That the Legislature ma.
at any time, by vote of two-thirds of eacl
House, remove such disability.
On this article twenty of the colored del
gates voted nay, and the same numbe
voted in the affirmative.
Article 90 prescribes the oath to be takel
by officers. The first paragraph is as fol
lows:
ST do solemnly swear that accept tn
civil and political equality Of all men, ant
agree not to attempt to deprive any persol
on account of race, color or previous con
dition, or any political or civil right, privi
lege or immunity enjoyed by any othe
class Of men," ~ tly H
Article 100 defines treason against thu
State, and says no person can be convicted
except on the testimony of two witnesses
and some act or confession in open court
Article lO3 provides that the first Legis
lature converting shall liquidate the debt
of the Convention remaining unpaid. AID
Ijourned.
MISSISSIPPI. 80.
JACKSON, January 29.-Resolutions wer
adopted that it should be the duty of tn
first Legislature, in order to encourag
loyal papers, to provide for the election
an official printer in each congressions
district. - ri
The committee reported an appeal I
Congress to appropriate the cotton tax L
We'd on Mississippi in 1867, or part of
to be distributed through the Freedmen
Bureau to the poor, without regard !
color, in the State.
The Convention yesterday decided nj
to accept the resignation of Mr.. Orr, chat
man.of the Printing Committee.
FLORIDA. ] 81
TALLAHASSEE, January "a lett'
was read detailing facts relative to tx
Florida railroad purchasing Governmer
lands, and resolution was introduce