ll be
authorized to vote in municipal affairs, except natives of the
Gay Head tribe, natives of other Indian tribes of this State
married or having been married to a Gay Head woman and resident
on the plantation, or such other person resident on the
plantation and married or having been married to a Gay Head
woman, as shall have the right conferred on him by a vote of
two-thirds of the voters of the plantation.

Sect. 9. All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed, so far as
they conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby
repealed.

Sect. 10. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

If the legislature should decide not to authorize the appointment
of a single commissioner for the State, I would propose the
passage of the same Bill with the following amendments:--

Strike out the whole of section 3.

Strike out in section 4 the words "said commissioner shall, as
soon as is convenient after his appointment," and insert the
words--clerks of Marshpee, the guardians of the several
plantation tribes, and the clerk of Gay Head shall.

In section 5, strike out the words "said commissioner," and
insert the words--guardians of the Chappequiddick and
Christiantown tribes. Also, in the latter portion of the same
section, strike out the word "commissioner" and insert the
word--guardian.

In section 6, strike out the words "said commissioner," and
insert the words--guardian of the Troy or Fall River tribe.

Strike out section 7, entire.

Alter the numbering of the sections after 2, to correspond to the
changes.

Insert the following section after section 8:--

Sect. --. No person shall be entitled to support by any tribe in
the State, of whose parents, one only was an Indian, and whose
residence was not on the plantation of the tribe at the time of
his birth, unless the rights of himself or parents as members of
the tribe, shall have been subsequently recognized by the tribe.

SOME NEGRO MEMBERS OF RECONSTRUCTION CONVENTIONS AND LEGISLATURES AND
OF CONGRESS[1]

No systematic effort has hitherto been made to save the records of the
Negro during the Reconstruction period. American public opinion has
been so prejudiced against the Negroes because of their elevation to
prominence in southern politics that it has bee