...enclose, for the information of the House, a letter from the Secretary of State acknowledging the receipt of* the act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States, and announcing his purpose to promulgate it. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, EDWARD McPHERSON,...

...meaning of the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and of the act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, in the year one thousand...

...voters, and to exercise the right of suffrage at the elections to be holden under the act entitled " An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and the acts supplementary thereto. Such difl'erences of opinion are necessary incidents to the imperfection...

...the Military authority, derived from and exercised by virtue of the Act of March 2, 1867, entitled an Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States ; and South Carolina having, by its Legislature, ratified the I4th Amendment : Upon proclamation of said...

...declared to have been the true intent and meaning of the Act of the 2d day of March, 1867, entitled 'An Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' and of the Act supplementary 26— R thereto, passed on the 23d day of March, 1867, that the governments...

...meaning of the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled ' An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' and the act supplementary thereto, passed the twenty-third day of March, in the year one thousand eight...

...conformity to the act of Congress, passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and the acts supplementary thereto. Акт. 153. The election for the ratification of the Constitution...

...the second day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and entitled " An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and by acts supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, and the nineteenth day of July,...

...assigned to the command of the several military districts under the act passed March 2, 1867, entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' and the act supplementary thereto, passed March 23, 1867; also copies of all opinions given to him by the...