...to be legal, 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...

...reported the following bill: Whereas the pretended State governments of the late so-called Confederate States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas were setup without the authority of Congress, and without the sanction of the people ; and, whereas,...

...that no legal State government or adequate protection of life or property now exists in Texas, and it is necessary that peace and good order should be enforced in said State until a loyal and republican State government can be legally established. It then provides that...

...inimitable: WHEKEAR, "No legal State government or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States of Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Loiusiana, Florida, Texas, und Arkansas ; aud whereas, it is necessary that peace aud pood order should...

...the Judicial, through the military power which it controls. The act of March 2d, 1867, recites, — said States until loyal and republican State governments can be legally established," and therefore enacts, "that said rebel States shall be divided into military districts, and made subject...

...supplementary thereto, passed on the 23d day of March, in the year 1*C7, that the governments then existing in the rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Ala bam a, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas were illegal and void ; and that thereafter said...

...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 Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, 496 APPENDIX. Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas were not legal State governments, and...

...existed in the'rebel States therein enumerated, including among them the State of Texas; and that it was necessary that peace and good order should be enforced...States until loyal and republican State governments could be legally established : it is therefore enacted, that said rebel States should be made into...

...government of the rebel States," passed March li, 1S07, 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...