...[CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION.] An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States. Whereas no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exists in the rebel States; and whereas it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced...

...Reb«l\ Suites. — An Act to provide efficient government I for the Insurrectionary States. JPAemw, No legal State governments or adequate protection...Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; and Kherfat, it is necessary that peace...

...government of the rebel States," passed March 2, 1867, it is provided in the first section thereof that the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South' Carolina,...Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas shall be divided into five military districts, and subjected to military authority ; and in the second...

...over the following' law, which con tains the substance of the Congressional plan of Reconstruction: WHEREAS, No legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exists In the rebel States [named], therefore, Be it enacted, etc., That said rebel States shall be...

...Acts." Both these acts had been passed over the President's veto. [The former of the acts, reciting that no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now existed in the rebel States of Virginia and North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama,...

...by the Congress of the United States on the 20th day of February, 1867. The preamble states that, " No legal State governments or adequate protection...Arkansas ; and whereas it is necessary that peace and Tood order should be enforced in said States until loyal and republican State governments <ш be legally...

...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...Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Arkansas, were not legal State governments ; and that thereafter said governments, if continued, were to be continued...

...the Insurrectionary States. Whereas the pretended State governments of the late so-called Confederate States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, were set up without the authority of Congress, and without the sanction of the people ; and whereas...

...LIBRARY £",'"„•• ' W* Ч AN ACT to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel Statoe. WHEREAS no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exists in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama,...

...March 23d, 1867; acts commonly called the Reconstruction Acts. The former of these acts, reciting that no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exists in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama,...