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16 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 30. 1867. E¤¤¤utiv¤ PM'- already registered; and no person shall, at anytime, be entitled to be ?§,Q'Qv‘;°'§,;’°,:,lff_ registered or to vote by reason of any executive pardon or amnesty fmncation troiii any act or thing which, without such pardon or amnesty, would disqualify '°““$· him from registration or voting. _ _ Members of Sec. 8. And be it jitrtfzer enacted, That section four of said last-named, frzlfg °;1fg{f; act shall be construed to authorize the commanding general named therersmetixed, aha in, whenever he shall deem it needful, to remove any member of a board '¤6¤¤bi¤S mm- of registration and to appoint another in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in such board. Those elected Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all members of said boards of °,’,,“gl;3lQ,f"Qf{. registration and all persons hereafter elected or appointed to office in said 3,,,-; dimigt, l,;` military districts, under any so-called State or municipal authority, or by ¤¤k¤ ¤¤¤ wh- detail or appointment of the district commanders, shall be required to take and to subscribe the oath of office prescribed by law for officers of the United States. %Pl';,§°¤° °*` Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That no district commander or gvuqgctcggigst member of the board of registration, or any of the officers or appointees vf disfrictcom- acting under them, shall be bound in his action by any opinion of any m““d“”· &°‘ civil officer of the United States. Provisions of Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of this act 2_‘°;§ and of the acts to which this is supplementary shall be construed liberally, to ' the end that all the intents thereof may be fully and perfectly carried out. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the Hbuse of Representatives. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore. IN THE Housn on Rnrnnsnrrrarrvns, U. S., July 19th, 1867. l The President of the United States, having retumcd to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the hill entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘ An act to provide for the more eflicient government_ of the rebel States,' passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the act supplementary thereto passed on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty- seven," with his objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same ; and Resolved, That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the House of Represen— tatives agreeing to pass the same. Attest: EDWD. McPHERSON, Oler/: IZ R. U S IN THE SENATE on THE UNITED STATES, July 19, 1867. The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States} passed on the second day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven," returned to the House of Ifeprescntatives by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate, with the message of the President returning the bill: Resolved, That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same. Attest: J. W. FORNEY, Secretary, By W. J. MCDONALD, O/zfef Clerk.