assembly elected at the general election of said Territory in the year - An Act for the Support in Part of the National Soldiers' and Sailors' March 30, 1867. Orphan Home in the District of Columbia. for the support diers' and Sail Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and is hereby Appropriation appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropri- in part of the ated, for the support in part of the National Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphan National SolHome, in the District of Columbia, organized under an act of the twenty- ors' Orphan fifth of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, amended by the act of the Home, and how twenty-second of February, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, to be ex- to be expended. pended under the direction of the officers of said institution, five thousand dollars. APPROVED, March 30, 1867. 1866, ch. 249. 1867, ch. 62. Vol. xiv. pp. 247, 401. - An Act extending to the State of Nebraska the Provisions of an Act March 30, 1867. relating to Agricultural Colleges. Land granted Nebraska for agricultural colleges. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the grant made by law of the second day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, to each State, to of land equal to thirty thousand acres for each of its senators and representatives in Congress, for the purpose of establishing agricultural colleges, is extended to the State of Nebraska in the same manner as if Nebraska had been a State of the Union at the date of the passage of said law. APPROVED, March 30, 1867. Vol. xii. p. 503. 1862, ch. 130. 1866, ch. 209. Vol. xiv. p. 208. CHAP. XXIV. —An Act to provide in Part for grading the Public Grounds, and for March 30, 1867. other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of twenty thou- Appropriation sand dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not for grading public grounds, otherwise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of the Interior removing buildunder the supervision of the architect of the Capitol extension, in grading, ings, &c. filling up, removing buildings, and improving the public grounds and streets around the Capitol. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all repairs and alterations of the Repairs, alterations, &c. to be made under whose direction. 1867. CHAP. XXVII. - An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act making Appropri- July 19, ations for sundry Civil Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirty, 1867,ch.167,§ 10. eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes," passed March second, eighteen Vol. xiv. p. 467. hundred and sixty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the concluding proviso Printing in of section ten of the act described in the title hereof shall not be held to the Treasury Department and prevent the necessary printing, as heretofore done, in the Treasury its bureaus, how Department and the bureaus thereof, by their own employees; but the may be done. number of persons employed in this service shall not be increased. APPROVED, July 19, 1867. July 19, 1867. CHAP. XXVIII. - Certain sol not to be deemed vy, so as to lose - An Act for the Relief of certain Soldiers and Sailors therein designated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no soldier or sailor shall diers and sailors, be taken or held to be a deserter from the army or navy who faithfully deserters from served according to his enlistment until the nineteenth day of April, the army or na- eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and who, without proper authority or their citizenship. leave first obtained, did quit his command or refuse to serve after said Forfeitures of date; but nothing herein contained shall operate as a remission of any pay, &c. not re- forfeiture incurred by any such soldier or sailor of his pay, bounty, pension, or other allowances, but this act shall be construed solely as a removal of any disability such soldier or sailor may have incurred by the loss of his citizenship in consequence of his desertion. mitted. July 19, 1867. APPROVED, July 19, 1867. CHAP. XXIX. · An Act to establish certain Post-Roads. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Post roads es- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following be established as post routes: tablished in Maine. July 19, 1867. 1867, ch. 153. Vol. xiv. p. 428. Post, pp. 29, 30. chap. 153 of acts Governments in certain rebel states declared not to be legal. Commander of district may sus pend or remove any civil or military officer, subject, &c. and may appoint to the vacancy. MAINE. From Kennebunk, via Kennebunkport, to Cape Neddick. APPROVED, July 19, 1867. CHAP. XXX. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it is hereby declared to have been the true intent and meaning of the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and of the act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, that the governments then existing in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas were not legal State governments; and that thereafter said governments, if continued, were to be continued subject in all respects to the military commanders of the respective districts, and to the paramount authority of Congress. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commander of any district named in said act shall have power, subject to the disapproval of the General of the army of the United States, and to have effect till disapproved, whenever in the opinion of such commander the proper administration of said act shall require it, to suspend or remove from office, or from the performance of official duties and the exercise of official powers, any officer or person holding or exercising, or professing to hold or exercise, any civil or military office or duty in such district under any power, election, appointment or authority derived from, or granted by, or claimed under, any so-called State or the government thereof, or any municipal or other division thereof, and upon such suspension or removal such commander, subject to the disapproval of the General as aforesaid, shall have power to provide from time to time for the performance of the said duties of such officer or person so suspended or removed, by the detail of some competent officer or soldier of the army, or by the appointment of some other person, to perform the same, and to fill vacancies occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the General of the army of the United States shall be invested with all the powers of suspension, removal, appointment, and detail granted in the preceding section to district commanders. The general of ed with power the army investto remove, appoint, &c. Provisions as Duties and powers of boards of registration. Ante, p. 3. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the acts of the officers of the Certain acts army already done in removing in said districts persons exercising the of army officers in the military functions of civil officers, and appointing others in their stead, are hereby districts conconfirmed: Provided, That any person heretofore or hereafter appointed firmed. by any district commander to exercise the functions of any civil office, to removals. may be removed either by the military officer in command of the district, or by the General of the army. And it shall be the duty of such commander to remove from office as aforesaid all persons who are disloyal to the government of the United States, or who use their official influence in any manner to hinder, delay, prevent, or obstruct the due and proper administration of this act and the acts to which it is supplementary. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the boards of registration provided for in the act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to facilitate restoration," passed March twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixtyseven, shall have power, and it shall be their duty before allowing the registration of any person, to ascertain, upon such facts or information as they can obtain, whether such person is entitled to be registered under said act, and the oath required by said act shall not be conclusive on such question, and no person shall be registered unless such board shall decide that he is entitled thereto; and such board shall also have power to examine, under oath, (to be administered by any member of such board,) any one touching the qualification of any person claiming registration; but in every case of refusal by the board to register an applicant, and in every case of striking his name from the list as hereinafter provided, the board shall make a note or memorandum, which shall be returned with the registration list to the commanding general of the district, setting forth the grounds of such refusal or such striking from the list: Provided, That no person shall be disqualified as member of any board of registration by reason of race or color. Race or color not to disqualify for membership of the board. Intent of the Ante. D. 2. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the true intent and meaning of the oath prescribed in said supplementary act is, (among other things,) oath prescribed. that no person who has been a member of the legislature of any State, or who has held any executive or judicial office in any State, whether he has taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States or not, and whether he was holding such office at the commencement of the rebellion, or had held it before, and who has afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to be registered or to vote; and the words "executive or judicial office in any State" in said oath mentioned shall be construed to include all civil offices created by law for the administration of any general law of a State, or for the administration of justice. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the time for completing the original registration provided for in said act may, in the discretion of the commander of any district be extended to the first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and the boards of registration shall have power, and it shall be their duty, commencing fourteen days prior to any elec- Registration tion under said act, and upon reasonable public notice of the time and lists may be replace thereof, to revise, for a period of five days, the registration lists, and upon being satisfied that any person not entitled thereto has been registered, to strike the name of such person from the list, and such person shall not be allowed to vote. And such board shall also, during the Names of other same period, add to such registry the names of all persons who at that persons may be time possess the qualifications required by said act who have not been Time of completing registration may be extended. vised. added. dons, &c. not to Executive par- already registered; and no person shall, at any time, be entitled to be remove disquali- 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. fication from voting. Members of board of registration may be removed, and vacancies filled. Those elected or appointed to office in the mili tary districts to take the oath. Opinions of civil officers not to affect action of district commanders, &c. Provisions of to be construed. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That section four of said last-named act shall be construed to authorize the commanding general named therein, whenever he shall deem it needful, to remove any member of a board of registration and to appoint another in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in such board. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That all members of said boards of registration and all persons hereafter elected or appointed to office in said military districts, under any so-called State or municipal authority, or by 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. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That no district commander or member of the board of registration, or any of the officers or appointees acting under them, shall be bound in his action by any opinion of any civil officer of the United States. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That all the provisions of this act these acts, how 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 House of Representatives. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore. IN THE HOUSE of Representatives, U. S., The President of the United States, having returned to the House of EDWD. MCPHERSON, 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 Representatives 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, By W. J. McDONALD, CHAP. XXXII. An Act to establish Peace with certain Hostile Indian Tribes. July 20, 1867. See post, p. 80. Commission to treat with hostile Indians, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a commission to consist of three officers of the army not below the rank of brigadier gen- and make treaeral, who, together with N. G. Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, ties, &c. John B. Henderson, Chairman of the Committee of Indian Affairs of the Senate, S. S. Tappan, and John B. Sanborn, shall have power and authority to call together the chiefs and headmen of such bands or tribes of Indians as are now waging war against the United States or committing depredations upon the people thereof, to ascertain the alleged reasons for their acts of hostility, and in their discretion, under the direction of the President, to make and conclude with said bands or tribes such treaty stipulations, subject to the action of the Senate, as may remove all just causes of complaint on their part, and at the same time establish security for person and property along the lines of railroad now being constructed to the Pacific and other thoroughfares of travel to the western Territories, and such as will most likely insure civilization for the Indians and peace and safety for the whites. Commissioners to select a dis manent home for SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners are required to examine and select a district or districts of country having trict or districts, sufficient area to receive all the Indian tribes now occupying territory subject to the east of the Rocky mountains, not now peacefully residing on permanent approval of Conreservations under treaty stipulations, to which the government has the gress, for a perright of occupation or to which said commissioners can obtain the right certain Indians. of occupation, and in which district or districts there shall be sufficient tillable or grazing land to enable the said tribes, respectively, to support themselves by agricultural and pastoral pursuits. Said district or dis- Members of tricts, when so selected, and the selection approved by Congress, shall tribes only to be and remain permanent homes for said Indians to be located thereon, without, &c. and no person [s] not members of said tribes shall ever be permitted to enter thereon without the permission of the tribes interested, except officers and employees of the United States: Provided, That the district or districts shall be so located as not to interfere with travel on highways located by authority of the United States, nor with the route of the ways, nor with Northern Pacific Railroad, the Union Pacific Railroad, the Union Pa- certain railroad cific Railroad Eastern Division, or the proposed route of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad by the way of Albuquerque. enter thereon, Districts not to interfere with travel on high routes. Appropriation SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the following sums of money are hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury, to wit: To under this act. carry out the provisions of the preceding sections of this act, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; to enable the Secretary of the Interior to subsist such friendly Indians as may have seperated or may hereafter seperate themselves from the hostile bands or tribes and seek the protection of the United States, three hundred thousand dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of War be required to furnish transportation, subsistence, and protection to the commissioners herein named during the discharge of their duties. Transportation, subsistence, &c. of commission ers. Services of certain mounted volunteers may SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if said commissioners fail to secure the consent of the Indians to remove to the reservations and fail to secure peace, then the Secretary of War, under the direction of the be accepted, if, President, is hereby authorized to accept the services of mounted volun- &c. teers from the Governors of the several States and Territories, in organized companies and battalions, not exceeding four thousand men in number, and for such term of service as, in his judgment, may be necessary for the suppression of Indian hostilities. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all volunteers so accepted shall be placed upon the same footing, in respect to pay, clothing, subsistence, and equipment, as the troops of the regular army. VOL. XV. PUB.. 2 Pay, subsis tence, &c. of such volunteers, if accepted. |