Annual Reports of the War Department, Volume 1

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1867

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Page 687 - An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.
Page 258 - States in all respects, framed by a convention of delegates elected by the male citizens of said State, twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition, who have been resident in said State for one year previous to the day of such election, except such as may be disfranchised for participation in the rebellion, or for felony at common law...
Page 532 - I repeat the. recommendation heretofore made by this department that "so much of section thirteen of the act to increase and fix the military peace establishment of the United States...
Page 209 - October 19, 1859. Colonel : I have the honor to report, for the information of the Secretary of War, that on arriving here on the night of the 17th instant, in obedience to Special Orders No.
Page 338 - States," passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, shall cause a registration to be made of the male citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age and upwards, resident in each county or parish in the State or States included in his district, which registration shall include only those persons who are qualified to vote for delegates by the act aforesaid, and who shall have taken and subscribed the following oath or affirmation: "I, , do solemnly...
Page 1 - ... removed from office as Secretary for the Department of War, you are hereby authorized and empowered to act as Secretary of War ad interim, and will immediately enter upon the discharge of the duties pertaining to that office. Mr. Stanton has been instructed to transfer to you all the records, books, papers and other public property now in his custody and charge. Respectfully yours, Andrew Johnson To Brevet Major General Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant General US Army, Washington, DC...
Page 379 - That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid to protect all persons in their rights of person and property; to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Page 332 - WHEREAS no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exists in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; and whereas it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said States until loyal and republican State governments can be legally established...
Page 293 - ... no person shall, at any time, be entitled to be registered or to vote by reason of any executive pardon or amnesty for any act or thing which, ^without such pardon or amnesty, would disqualify him from registration or 'voting.
Page 249 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States...

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