UNITED STATES. 



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SBC. 4. And be it further enacteil, That the com- 



ii.lll appoint BUCb 



' thn-e iii each election district in any State, 

 Milete tin- re>.;i-tr:ition, superintend 

 tin- election, ami make return to him of tin- rotes, 

 .ins elected as delegates 

 the votes cast at said election : and 

 .i.l returns he shall open the same, 

 i as delegates according 

 . i us df the officers who conducted said 

 -i, :ui'l make proclamation thereof;' and if a 

 v <if tin- votes given on that question shall bo 

 itinti, the commanding general, within 

 mini the date of election, shall notify the 

 ilcli'^.. il'le iii convention at a time and 



mentioned in the notification ; and said 

 Minn, when ortrani/ed, shall proceed to frame 

 a constitution and civil government o.ecordin<; to 

 the provisions of this act, and the act to which it is 

 supplementary ; and when the same shall have been 

 so fraiiie.l, s:ii.l constitution shall be submitted by 

 the convention for ratification to the persons reiji.s- 

 iinder the provisions of this act at an elec- 

 tion to be conducted by the officers or persons ap- 

 pointed by the commanding general, as hereinbefore 

 piovided, and to be held after the expiration of 

 thirty days from the date of notice thereof, to be 

 given by said convention ; and the returns thereof 

 shall be made to the commanding general of the dis- 

 trict. 



SEC. 5. And be it further tnact-ed, That if, accord- 

 ing to said returns, the constitution shall be ratified 

 by a majority of the votes of the electors qualified as 

 herein specified, cast at said election (at least one- 

 half of all the registered voters voting upon the ques- 

 tion of such ratification) the president of the conven- 

 tion shall transmit a copy of the same, duly certi- 

 fied, to the President of the United States, who shall 

 forthwith transmit the same to Congress, if then in 

 session, and if not in session, then immediately up_on 

 its next assembling; and if the said constitution 

 shall be declared by Congress to be in conformity 

 with the provisions of the act to which this is sup- 

 plementary, and the other provisions of said act 

 shall have bcca complied with, and the said consti- 

 tution shall be approved by Congress, the State 

 shall be declared entitled to representation, and 

 >rs and Representatives shall be admitted 

 therefrom as therein provided. 



SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all elections 

 in the States mentioned in the said act to provide for 

 the more efficient government of the rebel States, 

 shall, during the operation of said act,_be by ballot; 

 and all ollieers making the said registration of voters 

 and conducting said elections shall, before entering 

 upon the discharge of their duties, take and subscribe 

 an oath faithfully to perform the duties of their said 

 office, and the oath prescribed by the act approved 

 July i>, 18o2, entitled " An act to prescribe an oath of 



SEC. 7. And be itfurtlier enatted, That all expenses 

 incurred by the several commanding generals, or by 

 virtue of any orders issued, or appointments made, 

 by them, under or by virtue of this act, shall be paid 

 out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise ap- 

 propri 



SEC. 8. And be it further enacted-, That the conven- 

 tion for each State shall prescribe the fees, salary, 

 and compensation to be paid to all delegates and 

 other officers and agents herein authorized or neces- 

 sary to carry into effect the purposes of this act not 

 herein otherwise provided for, and shall provide for 

 the levy and collection of such taxes on the prop- 

 erty in" such State as may be necessary to pay the 

 same. 



SEC. 9. And be it furtJw enacted, That the word 

 "article," in the sixth section of the act to which 

 this is supplementary, shall be construed to mean 

 " section. 



The bill was then passed by the following vote: 



^ Messrs. Anthony, Cattell, Chtndlcr, Cole, 



<'onUi:, . Conncss, (.'.. 



iniinds, l-Vi-r\, Fe-sendi-n, Fowler, Fn-liii^hursen, 

 llarlan, Howard, Johnson, Morgan, Monill of Maine, 

 Mori-ill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New 

 Hampshire, Ramsey, Ross, Sherman, Stewart, Sum- 

 ner, 1'haver, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, 

 Willey, Williams, Wilson, and Yatc; 



NAYS Messrs. Buckalew and Hendricks 2. 



ABSENT Messrs. Cameron, Davis, Dixon, Doo- 

 little, Grimes, Guthrie, Henderson, Norton, Patter- 

 son of Tennessee, Pomeroy, Riddle, SauUbury, and 

 Spraguc iy. 



In the House, on March 18th, the amendment 

 of the Senate was considered. 



Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, said : " It, is my pur- 

 pose to move to concur in the Senate amend- 

 ment with certain amendments which I am di- 

 rected to offer by the Committee on the Judici- 

 ary. The first amendment is in section one, line 

 twenty-two, after the word 'States,' to insert 

 the following as a part of the oath prescribed: 



That I have never been a member of any State 

 Legislature, nor held any executive or judicial office 

 in any State, and afterward engaged in insurrection 

 or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or 

 comfort to the enemies thereof. 



" I will state the purpose of this amendment. 

 It has been ascertained since the passage of 

 this bill that certain executive and legislative 

 officers in at least one of the rebel States have 

 not been required to take the oath prescribed 

 by the constitutional amendment to support the 

 Constitution of the United States, as, for in- 

 stance, in the State of Virginia, where the ex- 

 ecutive and judicial oath has been for years 

 omitted. Therefore it is feared that while 

 those persons were intended to be included 

 within the provisions of the third section of 

 the constitutional amendment submitted to the 

 States by the Thirty - ninth Congress, they 

 would not in fact be so included." 



The previous question was seconded and the 

 main question ordered; and under the opera- 

 tion thereof the amendment was agreed to. 



Mr. "Wilson : " The second amendment which 

 I am directed by the Committee on the Judi- 

 ciary to offer is in section five, lines three, four, 

 and live, to strike out the words cast at said 

 election (at least one-half of all the registered 

 voters voting upon the question of such ratifi- 

 cation),' so that it will read:" 



SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if, accord- 

 ing to said returns/the constitution shall be ratified 

 by a majority of the votes of the electors qualified as 

 herein specified, the president of the convention 

 shall transmit a copy of the same, duly certified, to 

 the President of the United States, who shall forth- 

 with transmit the same to Congress, if then in ses- 

 sion, and if not in session, then immediately upon its 

 next assembling, etc. 



The amendment was agreed to. The sixth 

 section was also amended by adding thereto 

 the following: 



Provided, That if any person shall knowingly and 

 falsely take and subscribe any oath in this net pre- 

 scribed, such person so offending, and being thereof 

 duly convicted, shall bo subject to the pain?, pen- 



