ctors in the State, and if the said constitution shall be declared
by Congress to be in conformity with the provisions of the act to
which this is supplementary, and the other provisions of said act shall
have been complied with, and the said constitution shall be approved
by Congress, the State shall be declared entitled to representation,
and Senators and Representatives shall be admitted therefrom as therein
provided.

SEC. 6. That all elections in the States mentioned in the said "Act
to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,"
shall, during the operation of said act, be by ballot; and all officers
making the said registration of voters and conducting said elections
shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, take and
subscribe the oath prescribed by the act approved July second, eighteen
hundred and sixty-two, entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of
office:"(1) _Provided_, That if any person shall knowingly and falsely
take and subscribe any oath in this act prescribed, such person so
offending and being thereof duly convicted, shall be subject to the
pains, penalties, and disabilities which by law are provided for the
punishment of the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury.

SEC. 7. That all expenses incurred by the several commanding generals,
or by virtue of any orders issued, or appointments made, by them, under
or by virtue of this act, shall be paid out of any moneys in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 8. That the convention for each State shall prescribe the fees,
salary, and compensation to be paid to all delegates and other officers
and agents herein authorized or necessary to carry into effect the
purposes of this act not herein otherwise provided for, and shall
provide for the levy and collection of such taxes on the property in
such State as may be necessary to pay the same.

SEC. 9. That the word article, in the sixth section of the act to
which this is supplementary, shall be construed to mean section.

SUPPLEMENTARY RECONSTRUCTION ACT OF JULY 19, 1867.

AN ACT SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MORE
EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT OF THE REBEL STATES," PASSED ON THE SECOND DAY
OF MARCH, 1867, AND THE ACT SUPPLEMENTARY THERETO, PASSED ON THE 23D
DAY OF MARCH, 1867.

_Be it enacted, &c._, That is hereby declared to have been the true
intent and meaning of the act of the 2d day of March, 1867, entitled
"An act to provid