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  1. Overview: United States Fifteenth Amendment
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  3. Committee:The Senate
  4. Session: 1867-07-03 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

United States Fifteenth Amendment

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The Senate of the Fortieth Session of Congress

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Session 6538: 1867-07-03 12:00:00

S. 123, S. 124, S. 125, S. 126, and S. 129 are proposed

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S. 123

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In addition to the act passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, “To provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” and the act supplementary thereto, passed March twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all offices held under the pretended authority of any of the rebel State governments of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Florida, be, and the same are hereby, declared to be vacated at the expiration of thirty days from the passage of this act; and the commanding generals of the several military districts established by the acts to which this is in addition, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to continue in office any person who, before the expiration of the said thirty days, may have been discharging the duties of such office, or the said commanding generals may respectively, in their discretion, appoint other persons to perform the duties of any of the said offices, or the said commanding generals respectively may, if, in their judgment, the purposes of the act aforesaid can be best secured thereby, order elections to be held by the people for the election of suitable persons to fill the same; and the elections hereby authorized shall be held according to, and in conformity with, the terms and conditions provided for in the acts to which this act is in addition.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the boards of registration in the several military districts established by the acts to which this is in addition shall have the power to refuse to admit to register any persons applying to be registered who they may have just grounds to believe may be seeking to evade the requirements of the acts aforesaid; and to this end they shall have power to examine all applicants for registration, and also to receive such testimony as may exist in regard to the qualifications of all persons applying to be registered; and at any time within twenty days after the completion of the registration they shall be, and are hereby, empowered, upon the production of proof sufficient to satisfy themselves that the name of any person who has been registered has been wrongfully or by false representations or fraudulently inserted upon the lists of registration, to erase the name of such person from such list.

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