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4 DociTME^^T Iso. 4. [Session
cast at tlie elections held for the ratification or rejection of
the same; Therefore,
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Hepresentatives
of the United States of America hi Congress asse^nhled, That
,eacli of the States of North Carolina, Soutli Carolina, Louisi-ana,
Georgia, Alabama, and Florida shall be entitled and ad-niitted
to repi-esentation in Congress as a State of the Union
when the Legislature of such State shall have duly ratified
the amendment to the Constitution of the United States pro-posed
by the Thirty-uinth Congress, and known as Article
Fourteen, upon the following fundamental conditions : that
the Constitution of neither of said States sliall ever be so
amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of cit-zens
of tlie United States of the right to vote in said State
who are entitled to vote by the Constitution thereof herein
recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are
now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been
duly convicted, under laws equally applicable to all the in-habitants
of said State : Provided^ That any alteration of
said Constitution may be made with regard to the time and
place of residence of voters ; and the State of Georgia slu^li
only be entitled and admitted to representation upon this fur-ther
fundamental condition : that the first and tliird subdivi-sions
of section 17^ of the fiJ'th Article of tlie Constitution of
s'aid State, except the proviso to the first subdivis>ion, shall be
null and void, and that the General Assembly of said State,
by solemn public act,, shall declare the assent of the State to
the foregoing fundamental condition.
Section 2.. Andle itfurther enacted, That if the day fixed
for the first meeting of the Legislature of either of said States,
by the Constitution or Ordinance thereof, shall have passed,
or have so nearly arrived before the passage of this Act, tliat
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.
Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That the first section of
tliis Act shall take effect as to. each State,, except Georgia
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| Full Text | 4 DociTME^^T Iso. 4. [Session cast at tlie elections held for the ratification or rejection of the same; Therefore, Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Hepresentatives of the United States of America hi Congress asse^nhled, That ,eacli of the States of North Carolina, Soutli Carolina, Louisi-ana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida shall be entitled and ad-niitted to repi-esentation in Congress as a State of the Union when the Legislature of such State shall have duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States pro-posed by the Thirty-uinth Congress, and known as Article Fourteen, upon the following fundamental conditions : that the Constitution of neither of said States sliall ever be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of cit-zens of tlie United States of the right to vote in said State who are entitled to vote by the Constitution thereof herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted, under laws equally applicable to all the in-habitants of said State : Provided^ That any alteration of said Constitution may be made with regard to the time and place of residence of voters ; and the State of Georgia slu^li only be entitled and admitted to representation upon this fur-ther fundamental condition : that the first and tliird subdivi-sions of section 17^ of the fiJ'th Article of tlie Constitution of s'aid State, except the proviso to the first subdivis>ion, shall be null and void, and that the General Assembly of said State, by solemn public act,, shall declare the assent of the State to the foregoing fundamental condition. Section 2.. Andle itfurther enacted, That if the day fixed for the first meeting of the Legislature of either of said States, by the Constitution or Ordinance thereof, shall have passed, or have so nearly arrived before the passage of this Act, tliat 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. Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That the first section of tliis Act shall take effect as to. each State,, except Georgia |
