The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-22
Bill for the Admission Of virginia.


The following is the Virginia bill as passed
by the Senate yesterday
An act to admit tie State IF Virginia to re
presentation IN tie Congress ?f tic United
States.
Whereas, The people of Virginia have
framed and adopted a Constitution of State
government, which is Republican; and,
whereas, the Legislature of Virginia, elected
under said Constitution, has ratified the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the
Constitution of the United States and
whereas the performance of these several acts
in good faith was a condition precedent to
the representation of the State in Congress-;
therefore,
BE 10 enacted, etc.-That the said State of
Virginia is entitled to representation in the
Congress of the United States, provided that
before any member of the Legislature of said
State shall take or resume his seat, or any
officer of said State shall enter upon the
duties of his Office he shall take and subscribe
and file in the Office of the Secretary of State
of Virginia, for permanent preservation, an
oath in the form following:-
81, A. b., do solemnly swear that 1 have
never taken an oath, as q member of Congress
OF as an officer of the United States, or as a
member of any State Legislature, or as an
executive or judicial officer of any State, to
support the Constitution of the United States,
anu CuRuSGu Ill luSuII6CllOn VI I6-
bellion against the same, or given aid and
comfort to the enemies thereof, so help me
God"
Or such person shall in like manner take
and subscribe and file the following oath:--
II, A. B., do solemnly swear that l have
by act of the Congress of the United States
been released from the disabilities imposed
on me by the fourteenth amendment to the
Constitution of the United States, so help me
INn1.b bxth,n oath hall I,a oil hofo
certified by any officer lawfully authorized to
administer oaths; and any person who shall
knowingly swear falsely in taking either of
such oaths shall be deemed guilty of perjury,
and shall be punished therefor by imprison-
ment for not less than one year and not more
than ten years, and shall be fined not less
than $1,000 and not more than $4,000; and
in all trials for any violation of this act, the
certificate of the taking of either of said
oaths, with proof of the signature of the party
accused shall be taken and held as conclusive
evidence that such oath was lawfully
and regularly administered by competent
authority; And pTOUidCd fl,rther, That every
such person who shall neglect, for the period
of 30 days next after the passage of this act,
to take, subscribe, and file such oath as afore-
said, shall be deemed and taken, to all intents
and purposes, to have vacated his office Ind
| pTOgided tu1ther, That the State of Virginia is
| the following fundamental conditions
| That the constitution of Virginia shall never
| be so amended or changed as to deprive any
| citizen, or class of citizens, of the United
States of the right to vote, who are entitledhto
| vote by the Constitution herein recognized, ex
| cept as punishment for such crimes as are
nowfelonies at common law, whereof they shall
have been duly convicted under laws equally
| applicable to all the inhabitants of said State
| PrOcided That any alteration of said Con
siitution, prospective in its effects, may be
made in regard to the time and place of resi-
dence of voters that it shall never be Lawful
for the same State to deprive any citizen Of
the United States, on account of his race
color, or previous condition of servitude, OF
the right to hold office under the .Constitu
ton and laws of said State, or upon any such
| ground to require of him any other qualifca
ton for Office than such required of all other
citizens; that the Constitution of VirginiG
| shall never be so amended or changed as tc
| deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the
| United States of the school rights and privi
leges secured by the Constitution of sale
| State,