y and emoluments of such office, no part of which shall
belong to the officer suspended; and it shall be the duty of the
President within thirty days after the commencement of each session of
the Senate, except for any office which in his opinion ought not to be
filled, to nominate persons to fill all vacancies in office which
existed at the meeting of the Senate, whether temporarily filled or
not, and also in the place of all officers suspended; and if the
Senate during such session shall refuse to advise and consent to an
appointment in the place of any suspended officer, then, and not
otherwise, the President shall nominate another person as soon as
practicable to said session of the Senate for said office.
SEC. 3. _And be it further enacted,_ That section three of the act to
which this is an amendment be amended by inserting after the word
"resignation," in line three of said section, the following: "or
expiration of term of office."
APPENDIX C.
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT VOTED UPON BY THE SENATE.
ARTICLE XI.
That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of
the high duties of his office and of his oath of office, and in
disregard of the Constitution and laws of the United States, did
heretofore, to wit: on the 18th day of August, 1866, at the city of
Washington, in the District of Columbia, by public speech, declare and
affirm in substance that the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
was not a Congress of the United States authorized by the Constitution
to exercise legislative power under the same; but, on the contrary, was
a Congress of only part of the States, thereby denying and intending to
deny that the legislation of said Congress was valid or obligatory
upon him, the said Andrew Johnson, except in so far as he saw fit to
approve the same, and also thereby denying and intending to deny the
power of the said Thirty-Ninth Congress to propose amendments to the
Constitution of the United States; and, in pursuance of said
declaration, the said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
afterward, to wit: on the 21st day of February, 1868, at the city of
Washington, in the District of Columbia, did unlawfully and in
disregard of the requirements of the Constitution, that he should take
care that the laws be faithfully executed, attempt to prevent the
execution of an act entitled, "An act regulating the tenure of certain
civil offices," passed March 2,1867, by unlawfully d
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