...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 until loyal and republican State governments can be legally established: Therefore, be it enacted [follows...

...South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; and Kherfat, it is necessary that peace and good order should be...governments can be legally established ; therefore Be it enacted, Ac., That said Rebel States shall be divided into military districts and made subject...

...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...

...governments or adequate protection for life or property now existed in the rebel States of Virginia and North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi,...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, and that it was necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in them until loyul and republican...

...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...governments can be legally established : Therefore — Be it enacted, bу the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress...

...preamble states that, " No legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South...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 these acts, reciting that no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exists in the rebel States of Virginia, North...Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas, and that it was necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in them until loyal and republican...

...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...

...and crime; and whereas it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said so-called States, until loyal and republican State governments can be legally established : therefore — Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress...