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 74 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 70. 1868. Fmt ¤¤¤¤ti¤s Sec. 2. Ami be it further enacted, That if the day iixed for the first féregbzf §§§}°" meeting of the legislature of either of said` States by the constitution or States. ordinance thereof shall have passed or have so nearly arrived before the passage of this act that there shall not be time for the legislature to assemble at the period fixed, such legislature shall convene at the end of twenty days from the time this act takes effect, unless the governor elect shall sooner convene the same. First ¤¤¤ti¤¤ Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the first section of this act shall ‘,f;2"§’e“§,§;;i‘:;l take effect as to each State, except Georgia, when such State shall, by its to other States; legislature, duly ratify article fourteen of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and Wh¢}¤¤·¤¤¤ as to the State of Georgia when it shall in addition give the assent of G°°rg"*‘ said State to the fundamental condition hereinbefore imposed upon the Proceedings same; and thereupon the officers of each State duly elected and qualified “'°'°“P°“· under the constitution thereof shall be inaugurated without delay; but no Who not eu- person prohibited from holding office under the United States, or under sims *0 °**'°°· any State, by section three of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, known as article fourteen, shall be deemed eligible to any office in either of said States, unless relieved from disability as Duty otmesi. provided in said amendment; and it is hereby made the duty of the 6***}* 9* *° P50- President within ten days after receiving ohicial information of the ratifi- ' issue a proclamation announcing that fact. SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatwes. B. F. WADE, President of the Senate pro tempore. IN rum House or Rnrnnsnnrarxvms, U. S., June 25, 1868. i The President of the United States, having returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled "An act to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to representation in Congress," with his objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and Resolved, That the said bill do pass, two thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same. Attcst: EDWD. LICPIJERSON, Clerk H. R. Ul S. IN SENATE or trim Umrnn Srnns, June 25, 1868. i The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled "An act to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida to representation in Congress," 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: GEO. C. GORHAM, Secretary of the Senate.
 * £*,Y$"§;?°'¤' cation of said amendment by the legislature of either of said States to