rovided
for in this act may, in the discretion of the commander of any
district, be extended to the 1st day of October, 1867; and the boards
of registration shall have power, and it shall be their duty,
commencing fourteen days prior to any election under said act, and upon
reasonable public notice of the time and place thereof, to revise, for
a period of five days, the registration lists, and, upon being
satisfied that any person not entitled thereto has been registered,
to strike the name of such person from the list, and such person
shall not be allowed to vote. And such board shall also, during the
same period, add to such registry the names of all persons who at that
time possess the qualifications required by the same act who have not
been already registered; and no person shall, at any time, be entitled
to be registered or to vote, by reason of any executive pardon or
amnesty, for any act or thing which, without such pardon or amnesty,
would disqualify him from registration or voting.

SEC. 8. That section four of said last-named act shall be construed
to authorize the commanding general named therein, whenever he shall
deem it needful, to remove any member of a board of registration and
to appoint another in his stead, and to fill any vacancy in such board.

SEC. 9. That all members of said boards of registration, and all
persons hereafter elected or appointed to office in said military
districts, under any so-called State or municipal authority, or by
detail or appointment of the district commanders, shall be required
to take and to subscribe the oath of office prescribed by law for
officers of the United States.

SEC. 10. That no district commander or member of the board of
registration, or any of the officers or appointees acting under them,
shall be bound in his action by any opinion of any civil officer of
the United States.

SEC. 11. That all the provisions of this act and of the acts to which
this is supplementary shall be construed liberally, to the end that all
the intents thereof may be fully and perfectly carried out.

AMENDATORY RECONSTRUCTION ACT OF MARCH 11, 1868.

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ACT PASSED MARCH 23, 1867, ENTITLED "AN ACT
SUPPLEMENTARY TO 'AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE MORE EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT
OF THE REBEL STATES,' PASSED MARCH 2, 1867, AND TO FACILITATE THEIR
RESTORATION."

_Be it enacted, &c._, That hereafter any election authorized by the act
passed March 23, 1867, entit