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  1. Overview: United States Fifteenth Amendment
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  3. Committee:The Senate
  4. Session: 1868-02-17 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

United States Fifteenth Amendment

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The Senate of the Fortieth Session of Congress

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Session 8360: 1868-02-17 12:00:00

H. R. 214 is reported by the Committee on the Judiciary, with an amendment

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H. R. 214

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To amend the act passed March 23, 1867, entitled "An act supplementary to an act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate the restoration thereof.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the fifth section of an act passed March 23, 1867, entitled “An act supplementary to an act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate their restoration," as requires that a majority of all the registered votes of the district shall be cast in favor of the ratification of the constitution before it becomes valid be, and the same is hereby, so far modified that a majority of the votes cast at the election for the ratification or rejection of the Constitution shall be considered as valid and as affirming or rejecting the constitution.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several States which may be reconstructed under the act of March 2, 1867, and its supplements, may at the time of voting upon the ratification of the constitution vote also for members of Congress, who shall be entitled to take their seats in the next session of Congress after their several States shall have been admitted into the Union; and until a new apportionment the election for said members shall be according to the districts as they existed in 1858 and 1859, except when otherwise provided for; and the same elective officers who make the return of the votes cast on the ratification or rejection of the constitution shall enumerate and certify the votes cast for the members of Congress, and give certificates of election to those having the largest number of votes and whom they may deem entitled thereto.

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