Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-07-02

Tee Restoration of the seathern States.
The following is the "Omnibus" bill
re admitting the States of North
and South Carolina, louisiana,
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, as finally
passed last Friday, and sent to the Presi-
dent: aN
WHEREAs, the people of South Caro-.
lima, North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia.
Alabama and Florida have, in pursuance
of the provisions of an act entitled "An
act for the more efficient government Of
the Rebel States," passed March 2, 1857,
and the acts supplementary thereto,
framed constitutions of State govern
ment, which are Republican, and have
adopted said constitutions by large ma
jorities of the votes cast at tue elections
held for the ratification or repeating of
the same. 1,ii TsHTg I5ieY 6 ld su1l ~ FL
Therefore, be IL enacted, That each of
the states of North Carolina, South Caro-
lima, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and
Florida shall be entitled and admitted
to representation in Congress as q State
Of the Union, when the Legislature Of
such State shall have duly ratified the
amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States, proposed by The XXXIXth
Congress, and known as article IA, upon
the following fundamental conditions
SECTION l. That the Constitution 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 Consti-
tuition thereof herein recognized, except
as In punishment of 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 State Provided,
that any alterations ofsaid Constitutions
prospective In its effect, may he made
with regard to the time and place of
residence Of voters and the State Of
Georgia shall only be entitled and ad-
mitted to representation upon this furth-
er fundamental condition That the
| first and third subdivisions of Section
II Of the 9Th Article of the Constitution
of said State, except the proviso to the
first subdivision, shall be null and void,
and that the General Assembly of said
State, by solmn public act, shall declare
the assent Of the State to the foregoing
fundamental condition.
! Sec. 2. That II the day fixed for the
| first meeting ofthe Legislature of either
of said States by the Constitution or or
+ dinance thereof shall have passed, or 20
nearly arrived, before the passage of this
act that there shall not be time for the
Legislature u assemble at the period
| fixed, such Legislature shall convene at
the end of twenty days from the time
this act takes fleet unless the Governor
of the State sooner convene the same.
| Sec. 3. That the first section of this act
shall take effect as to each Sta e, except
Georgia, when each State shall, by its
Legislature, duly ratify Article IA of the
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States, propos I'd by the Thirty
ninth Congress; and as to the State of
Georgia, when 1t shall, in addition, give
the assent of said State to the funda-
mental condition 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 per-
son prohibited from holding office under
the United States, or under any State, by
section of the proposed amendment to
the Constitution of the United States,
known as Article ID, shall be deemed
eligible to any Office in either of said
| States, unless relieved from disability as
provided In said amendment and tits
hereby made the duty of the President,
within ten days after receiving official
information of the ratification of'said
amendment by the Legislature of either
of said States, to issue u proclamation
announcing that fact.