The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1868-07-07

No III.
The following law of the United States is pub
lshed for general information:
AN ACT
To admit he States Of No,tA Carolina, South
Carolina, Loeisiana, Georgia, Alabama,
and FIori1' to Representation in Congress.
WHEREAS, he people OF North Carolina,
South-Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama
and Florida have, in pursuance OF the pruvis-
ions OF an acr entitled An act for the more
efficient government of the rebel States" pass
ed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty
seven, and fhc acts supplementary thereto,
framed constitutions of State government which
are repuhlican and have adopted such constitu
tiOns by lary najorities of the votes cast at the
elections he'll tor the ratification or rejection OF
the same; II lsrctore,
Be- heaodS7 5y the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentattres Of United States Of Anaericu IN (0,,-
gre$s aSSHlSsd, That each OF the States Of
North. Carolina, South Carolina, louisiana,
Georgia, Ala abama, and Florida she'll be entitled
= and admitted to representation in Congress as a
State OF the Union when the Legislature OF such
State shall have duly ratified the amendment to
tn Constitution of the, United States proposed
@ 4ftssH55 Eesh sb6n @ eiowins kn4sn
tai conditions That tlhe constitutions OF neither
Or c.....-sd az to depssve 10Y citizen or class
of citzensj of the Unfted States of the right to
vote in sSrd State wLo arc entitled tovote by the
constitution thereof herein recognized except as
a ap-nishnient for such crimes as are now tclonies
q; cJmmGh hl law, whereof they shall have been
tuly convicted under laws equally applicable to
ell me Inhabitants of said State; P-O0idea, That
auv alteration of said Constitutions may be
!. lie with regard to the time and place OF resi-
nee OF, voters; and the State OF Gcorgia shall
only be entitled and admitted to representation
upon this fun ther tundamC ntal 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 sub
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.
SECTION 2. and be 1t further edGcted, That If
the day fixed for the first meeting or the Legis-
lature of either OF said States, by the Con
sttutiOn or Ordinance thereof, Shall have passed,
or have so nearly arrived before the passage OF
this Act that there shall not be time Tor the
JrUis}ltI1re to assemble at the period fixed,
such Legislature shall convene at the cnG OF
twenty days from the time this act takes effect,
nnIess the Governor elect shall sooner convene
the me.
SEXTON g. Amd be ii. further enacted, That the
first section of this act shall take erect as 10
cncl State except Georgia, when such State
slnll, by its Legislature, duly ratlty article
fourteen of the amendments to the C0nstltu-
tion of the United States proposed oy the
9otI Congress and as to the State Of Georgia,
vim if shall in addition, give the assent as sald
StGe to the fundamental condition herelnbefore
im,Osed upon the same; and thereupon the ON
ce:s of each State, duly elected and quslhed un-
a. tho constitution thereoi, shall be Inaugural
trI without delay; but no person pfonlDlteo
tr1n, holding Office under the United States, or
HIaranv State byeSection of the proposed
a,aendment to tie Constitution OF the United
States known as Article Fourteen, shall De
aimed eligible to any office IN either Oh SAID
safes, unless relieved from sdisaolilty as pro
= III in said amendment. And it is hereby
,.Ida the duty of the President, within ten
Ir1,, aftnr receiving official Information OF
t|' rotification of said amendment by the Legis-
i+rrn of either of said States, to issue proci1-
Inati0n announcing that fact. (Ftissed June 2o'
m nrovisions of the second and third sectlons
,F tiio tPnrcgoing law, authorizing and requiring
VI - IN ;Ifnrcs of the several States embraced
=: - 5,..erot;s,rl to HconyeDe AT the ehd OF
t,yrntv divs from the time this Act takes elecl,
unless the Governor elect shall sooner convene
Shall by its Legislature, duly ratiiy Article our
tom oftbe amendments to the CONSTITUTION OF
th. ITniteI States proposed by the 1lllrty-nlnth
CnnTrass fIe officers of such State, " duly
clrc1rd and qualified under the Consttuion
thereof shall be inaugurated without deiay,
are REGARDED as dispensing W tn the OATH OF once
prescribed by the law of July z 1907 so iaT as IL
concerns the members elect o, tle titr't;oo
who aIe not disqualified by the constitutional
amrndmont known as Article Fourteen. Ac-
cordinriy so much OF the provisions OF General
Orders 10. 79, of May 2, 1868, and NO. o3, OF
May II lSf;S as requires the members eject OF
the General Assembly of the States OF North
Carolina and South Car lima, respectively, 10
take the oath of office prescribed by the ACT OF
Juiy2, 1862, before entering upon Tue ulscnais1
OF the duties of tn ir offices, is hereby reFokeo.
BY COmmandOf
Byt MajorGeneral ED. K 5; s., CANBf nG
LOUIS V. CAZlAkC'
Aide-dc-C camp,
ActU Asst. Adjt. Gonl.