Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United StatesCrosby, Frank
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Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States
Crosby, Frank
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
“SECTION 9. That if the Convention shall refuse to reëstablish
the State Government on the conditions aforesaid, the Provisional
Governor shall declare it dissolved; but it shall be the duty
of the President, whenever he shall have reason to believe
that a sufficient number of the people of the State entitled
to vote under this Act, in number not less than a majority of
those enrolled, as aforesaid, are willing to reëstablish a State
Government on the conditions aforesaid, to direct the Provisional
Governor to order another election of delegates to a Convention
for the purpose and in the manner prescribed in this Act, and
to proceed in all respects as hereinbefore provided, either to
dissolve the Convention, or to certify the State Government
reëstablished by it to the President.
“SECTION 10. That, until the United States shall have recognized
a republican form of State Government, the Provisional Governor
in each of said States shall see that this Act, and the laws of
the United States, and other laws of the State in force when the
State Government was overthrown by the rebellion, are faithfully
executed within the State; but no law or usage whereby any person
was heretofore held in involuntary servitude shall be recognized
or enforced by any Court or officer in such State, and the laws
for the trial and punishment of white persons shall extend to all
persons, and jurors shall have the qualifications of voters under
this law for delegates to the Convention. The President shall
appoint such officers provided for by the laws of the State when
its government was overthrown as he may find necessary to the civil
administration of the State, all which officers shall be entitled
to receive the fees and emoluments provided by the State laws for
such officers.
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