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Statement of the annual revenue collected by the Government from each source since 1860.

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June 30, 1858, June 30, 1866, 1867, and till January 1, 1868, together with the 30, 1869, and the estimates for the same year.

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ADDENDA.

A Bill relating to the Freedmen's Bureau and
Providing for its Discontinuance.

July 20-The PRESIDENT sent a veto, of which these are the most important paragraphs:

become entitled to representation in Congress pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf: Be it enacted, &c., That the duties and powers Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be of commissioner of the bureau for the relief of construed to apply to any State which was repre freedmen and refugees shall continue to be dis-sented in Congress on the 4th day of March, 1867. charged by the present commissioner of the bureau, and in case of a vacancy in said office occurring by reason of his death or resignation, the same shall be filled by appointment of the President on the nomination of the Secretary of War, and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and no officer of the army shall be detailed for service as commissioner, or shall enter upon the duties of commissioner, unless appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and all assistant commissioners, agents, clerks, and assistants shall be appointed by the Secretary of War, on the nomination of the commissioner of the bureau. In case of vacancy in the office of commissioner happening during the recess of the Senate, the duties of the commissioner shall be discharged by the acting assistant adjutant general of the bureau until such va cancy can be filled.

SEC. 2. That the commissioner of the bureau shall, on the 1st day of January next, cause the said bureau to be withdrawn from the several States within which said bureau has acted, and its operations shall be discontinued. But the educational department of the said bureau, and the collection and payment of moneys due to soldiers, sailors, and marines, or their heirs, shall be continued, as now provided by law, until otherwise ordered by act of Congress: Provided, however, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to any State which shall not, on the 1st of January next, be restored to its former political relations with the Government of the United States, and be entitled to representation in Congress. Passed both Houses.

Joint Resolution excluding from the Electoral College Votes of States lately in Rebellion which shall not have been Reorganized.

"The mode and manner of receiving and counting the electoral votes for President and Vice President of the United States are in plain and simple terms prescribed by the Constitution. That instrument imperatively requires that the President of the Senate "shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted." Congress has, therefore, no power, under the Constitution, to receive the electoral votes or reject them. The whole power is exhausted when, in the presence of the two Houses, the votes are counted and the result declared' In this respect the power and duty of the President of the Senate are, under the Constitution. purely ministerial. When, therefore, the joint resolution declares that no electoral votes shall be received or counted from States that, since the 4th of March, 1867, have not "adopted a constitution or State government under which a State government shall have been organized,' a power is assumed which is nowhere delegated to Congress, unless upon the assumption that the State governments organized prior to the 4th of March, 1867, were illegal and void.

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"The joint resolution, by implication at least, concedes that these States were States by virtue of their organization, prior to the 4th of March, 1867, but denies to them the right to vote in the election of President and Vice President of the United States. It follows either that this assumption of power is wholly unauthorized by the Constitution, or that the States so excluded from voting were out of the Union by reason of the rebellion, and have never been legitimately restored. Being fully satisfied that they were never out of the Union, and that their relations thereto have been legally and constitutionally restored, I am forced to the conclusion that the joint resolution which deprives them of the right to have their vote for President and Vice President received and counted is in conflict with the Constitution, and that Congress has no more power to reject their votes than those of the States which have been uniformly loyal to the Federal Union.

Resolved, &c., That none of the States whose inhabitants were lately in rebellion shall be entitled to representation in the electoral college for the choice of President or Vice President of the United States, nor shall any electoral votes be received or counted from any of such States, unless at the time prescribed by law for the choice of electors the people of such State, pursuant to the acts of Congress in that behalf, shall have, since the 4th day of March, 1867, adopted a constitution of State government, under which a State government shall have been organized and shall be in operation; nor unless such election of electors shall have been held under the authority of such constitution and government, and such State shall have also I tuted before that period.

"It is worthy of remark that if the States whose inhabitants were recently in rebellion were legally and constitutionally organized and restored to their rights prior to the 4th of March, 1867, as I am satisfied they were, the only legiti mate authority under which the election for President and Vice President can be held therein must be derived from the governments insti

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date of the 4th of July, 1868, and was trans mitted by and under the name of W. W. Holden, who therein writes himself Governor of North Carolina, which paper certifies that the said proposed amendment, known as article XIV, did pass the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the General Assembly of North Carolina on the second day of July instant, and Bower, as secretary of the House of Representatives, and T. A. Byrnes, as secretary of the Senate, and its ratification on the 4th of July, 1868, is attested by Tod R. Caldwell as Lieutenant Governor, president of Senate, and J. W. Holden as speaker of House of Representatives;

"It clearly follows that all the State governments organized in those States under acts of Congress for that purpose, and under military control, are illegitimate and of no validity whatever; and, in that view, the votes cast in those States for President and Vice President, in pursuance of acts passed since the 4th of March, 1867, and in obedience to the so-called reconstruction acts of Congress, cannot be legally re-is attested by the names of John H. Boner or ceived and counted; while the only votes in those States that can be legally cast and counted will be those cast in pursuance of the laws in force in the several States prior to the legislation by Congress upon the subject of reconstruction." Same day-The bill re-passed the SENATE yeas 45, nays 8, as follow:

YEAS-Messrs. Abbott, Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Cole, Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Fessenden, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Harris, Henderson, Howard, Howe, Kellogg, McDonald, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Osborn, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Rice, Ross, Sherman, Sprague, Stew art, Sumner, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Wade, Welch, Willey, Williams, Wilson, Yates-45. NAYS Messrs. Buckalew, Davis, Doolittle, Hendricks, McCreery, Patterson of Tennessee, Vickers, Whyte-8.

Same day It passed the HOUSE-yeas 134, nays 36; and the Speaker proclaimed it to be a

law. The NAYS were

Messrs. Adams, Archer, Axtell, Barnes, Beck, Boyden, Boyer, Brooks, Cary, Eldridge, Fox, Getz, Glossbrenner,

Golladay, Grover, Haight, Holman, Hotchkiss, Jullough,

Thomas L. Jones, Kerr, Knott, Marshall, McCullough,
Niblack, Nicholson, Phelps, Randall, Ross, Sitgreaves,
Stone, Taber, Lawrence S. Trimble, Van Auken, Wood,
Woodward-36.

Proclamation of President Johnson respecting
the Ratification of the XIVth Amendment by
Florida and North Carolina, July 11, 1868.
Whereas by an act of Congress, entitled "An
act to admit the States of North Carolina, South
Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and
Florida to representation in Congress," passed
on the 25th of June, 1868, it is declared that it
is made the duty of the President within ten
days after receiving official information of the
ratification by the legislature of either of said
States of a proposed amendment to the Consti-
tution known as article XIV, to issue a procla-
mation announcing that fact;

And whereas the said act seems to be prospective;

Now, therefore, be it known that I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States of America, in compliance with and execution of the act of Congress aforesaid, do issue this proclamation, announcing the fact of the ratification of the said amendment by the Legislature of the State of North Carolina, in the manner herein before set forth.

presents with my hand, and have caused the In testimony whereof I have signed these seal of the United States to be hereto affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this eleventh

[SEAL.]

day of July, in the year of our Lord
eight, and of the Independence of the
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-
United States of America the ninety-
third.
ANDREW JOHNSON.

By the President:

WM. H. SEWARD,

Secretary of State.

Certificate of Mr. Secretary Seward respecting

the Ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, July 20, 1868. William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, to all to whom these presents may come, greeting:

Whereas the Congress of the United States, on or about the sixteenth of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, passed a resolution which is in the words and figures following, to wit:

[For text of XIVth Amendment, see page 68 of Manual of 1867, or 194 of the combined Man

And whereas a paper, purporting to be a reso-ual.] lution of the Legislature of Florida, adopting And whereas by the second section of the act the amendment of the XIIIth and XIVth arti- of Congress, approved the twentieth of April, cles of the Constitution of the United States, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entiwas received at the Department of State on the tled "An act to provide for the publication of 16th of June, 1868, prior to the passage of the the laws of the United States, and for other act of Congress referred to, which paper is at-purposes," it is made the duty of the Secretary tested by the names of Horatio Jenkins, Jr., as of State forthwith to cause any amendment to president pro tem. of the Senate, and W. W. the Constitution of the United States, which has Moore as speaker of the Assembly, and of Wil-been adopted according to the provisions of the liam L. Apthoop as secretary of the Senate, and William Forsyth Bynum as clerk of the Assembly, and which paper was transmitted to the Secretary of State in a letter dated Executive Office, Tallahassee, Florida, June 10, 1868, from Harrison Reed, who therein signs himself Gov

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said Constitution, to be published in the newspapers authorized to promulgate the laws, with his certificate specifying the States by which the same may have been adopted, and that the same has become valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of the Constitution of the United States;

And whereas neither the act just quoted from, nor any other law, expressly or by conclusive implication, authorizes the Secretary of State to

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