ional
governments all persons shall be entitled to vote, and none others,
who are entitled to vote under the provisions of the fifth section of
this act; and no person shall be eligible to any office under any such
provisional governments who would be disqualified from holding office
under the provisions of the third article of said constitutional
amendment.

SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION ACT OF FORTIETH CONGRESS.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE
MORE EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT OF THE REBEL STATES," PASSED MARCH SECOND,
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN, AND TO FACILITATE RESTORATION.

_Be it enacted, &c._, That before the first day of September, eighteen
hundred and sixty-seven, the commanding general in each district
defined by an act entitled, "An act to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States," passed March second, eighteen hundred
and sixty-seven, shall cause a registration to be made of the male
citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age and upwards,
resident in each county or parish in the State or States included in
his district, which registration shall include only those persons who
are qualified to vote for delegates by the act aforesaid, and who shall
have taken and subscribed the following oath or affirmation: "I, ----,
do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) in the presence of Almighty God, that I
am a citizen of the State of ----; that I have resided in said State
for ---- months next preceding this day, and now reside in the county
of ----, or the parish of ----, in said State, (as the case may be;)
that I am twenty-one years old; that I have not been disfranchised for
participation in any rebellion or civil war against the United States,
nor for felony committed against the laws of any State or of the United
States; that I have never been a member of any State legislature, nor
held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards
engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or
given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I have never taken
an oath as a member of Congress of the United States, or as an officer
of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as
an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the
Constitution of the United States, and afterwards engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against the United States or given aid or
comfort to the enemies thereof; that I will