The Act of Congress of April 10th empowered the President to deal with the question of Reconstruction in Mississippi in the same manner as in Virginia. By virtue of this power, the President issued a proclamation, on the 13th of July, 1869, commanding the resubmission to the voters of the constitution adopted by the Mississippi convention, on the 15th of May, 1868, and rejected by the voters as stated on a previous page, and designating the 30th day of November, 1869, as the date of the election. As in the case of Virginia, the President ordered a separate vote to be taken upon the disfranchising and disqualifying clauses of the constitution which prohibited any person from voting or holding office who had given any aid or comfort to persons in rebellion. [Sidenote: The restoration of Mississippi to her Federal relations.] The result of the vote on the constitution was the same as in Virginia. The constitution was ratified without these clauses; and on the 23d of February, 1870, the bill for the restoration of Mississippi and the admission of the Senators and Representatives from the "State" to Congress, on the same conditions as those exacted of Virginia, became law. [Sidenote: Ratification of the Texas Constitution.] [Sidenote: Restoration of Texas to her Federal relations.] The Act of April 10th, 1869, also invested the President with the power of ordering the submission of the constitution framed and adopted by the convention at Austin, Texas, in June of 1868, to the voters for ratification. By virtue of this authority, the President ordered a vote to be taken upon this instrument on the 30th day of November, 1869. This proposed constitution did not contain any such disfranchising and disqualifying clauses as those which rendered the Virginia and Mississippi instruments {230} obnoxious to the intelligence of these communities, and the vote was, therefore, ordered to be taken upon the entire constitution at once. The result was ratification; and on the 30th of March, 1870, the Congressional measure for the complete restoration of Texas to her proper federal relations, upon the same fundamental conditions as those required of Virginia and Mississippi, became law.