Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, So Far as Regards the Execution of the Laws, and Safety of the Lives and Property of the Citizens of the United States and Testimony Taken: Report of the Joint committee, Views of the minority and Journal of the Select committee, April 20, 1871-Feb. 19, 1872

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Page 517 - O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come ! But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known." The condition of things in South Carolina, we dare assert, is without a parallel in the history of any people of any civilization. Even when the
Page 253 - United States known as Article XIV, and those who have been disqualified from registering to vote for delegates to the convention to frame a constitution for the State of Arkansas, under the act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,*' passed March 2,1867, and the acts supplementary thereto.
Page 626 - assembled. That the provisions of the fourth section of the act approved April twenty, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, entitled 'An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes,' shall continue in force until the end of the
Page 211 - State to representation in Congress makes it one of the guarantees, " that the constitution of Texas shall never be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the school rights and privileges secured by the constitution of said State.
Page 73 - and the clear proceeds of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal laws, and all moneys received for licenses granted under the general laws of the State for the sale of intoxicating
Page 284 - 3. No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive, (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person,) shall vote for members of the senate or house of commons.
Page 211 - be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the school rights and privileges secured by the constitution of said State." The legislature has, however, only been able to do half the work laid out by the constitution. We should have 5,000 teachers at work and
Page 623 - all information in his possession upon which he acted in exercising the powers conferred upon him by the third and fourth sections of the act o'f Congress approved April 20, 1871, entitled "An act to enforce the provisions of the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution
Page 283 - 4. Every free white man of the age of twenty-one years, being a citizen of this State, and having resided there'in two years previous to the day of election, and who hath a freehold of fifty acres of land, or a town lot, of which he hath
Page 284 - 1. Each member of the senate shall have usually resided in the district for which he is chosen for one year immediately preceding his election, and for the same time shall have possessed and continue to possess in the district which he represents not less than three

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