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 it PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS or rr-in UNITED STATES, di Passed at the Second Session, which was begun and held at the City of egg Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Jlhnday, the sixth day ,.3} of December, A. D. 1869, and was aayourned without day on Friday the fifteenth dag of July, A. D. 1870. Umrssss S. GRANT, President. Sonmrmsa Commx, Vice-President and President of the Senate. HENRY B. Aivrnoivr was elected President of the Senate pro tempore on the twenty-eighth day of May, A. D. 1870, and so acted until and including June third; also on the first' of July, and so acted until and including July fifth; was again elected President pro tempore on the fourteenth day of July, and so 1;: acted until the end of the session. JAMES G. BLAINE, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHAP. III.—An Act to promote the Reconstruction of the State ey" Georgia. Dec. 22, 1869. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United it States of America in Congress assemhled, That the governor of the State K, of Georgia be, and hereby is, authorized and directed, forthwith, by Persons elect-  proclamation, to summon all persons elected to the general assembly of ggsggggfffégl  said State, as appears by the proclamation of George G. Meade, the sms of Geo;.  general commanding the military district including the State of Georgia, 3*% *3** Sum-  dated June twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to appear on 2;°_Ki1,;2,;”°°t  some day certain, to be named in said proclamation, at Atlanta, in said  State ; and thereupon the said general assembly of said State shall pro- Organization  ceed to perfect its organization in conformity with the Constitution and *°b° P°'f°°*°d- laws of the United States, according to the provisions of .this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the members so elected Members ¢l¢¤¤ to said senate and house of representatives shall be convened, as afore- f,;‘;,g“§;°,5LQQ'§,{ said, each and every member and each and every person claiming to be to take and sub- eleeted as a member of said senate or house of representatives shall, in :9'lb?¤¤;ddl· 2 addition to taking the oath or oaths required by the constitution of ,,g:?,,£?;,,_°t Georgia, also take and subscribe and tile in the office of the secretary of Oath te be state of the State of Georgia one of the following oaths or atilrrnations, El.°‘:hi:;;‘;rg§f; namely: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I or state of Geor- have never held the office, or exercised the duties ot; a senator or repre- 8**;; f th sentative in Congress, nor been a member of the legislature of any State 0,. a&':;,:,ig:_ of the United States, nor held any civil office created by law for the administration of any general law of a State, or for the administration of justice in any State or under the laws of the United States, nor held any office in the military or naval service of the United States, and there- after engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or gave aid or comfort to its enemies, or rendered, except in consequence of  direct physical force, any support or aid to any insurrection or rebellion against the United States, nor held any office under, or given any support ft to, any government of any kind organized or acting in hostility to the.