absence, sickness, or other cause.

The board can not enter into any inquiry as to the qualifications of
any person whose name is not on the registration list, or as to the
qualifications of any person whose name is on that list..

Concurred in unanimously.

18. The mode of voting is provided in the act to be by ballot. The board
will keep a record and poll book of the election, showing the votes,
list of voters, and the persons elected by a plurality of the votes cast
at the election, and make returns of these to the commanding general of
the district.

Concurred in unanimously.

19. The board appointed for registration and for superintending the
elections must take the oath prescribed by the act of Congress approved
July 2, 1862, entitled "An act to prescribe an oath of office."

Concurred in unanimously.

IN CABINET, _June 20, 1867_.

Present: The same Cabinet officers as on the 18th, except the Acting
Secretary of the Interior.

The President announced to the Cabinet that after full deliberation he
concurred with the majority upon the sections of the summary upon which
the Secretary of War expressed his dissent, and that he concurred with
the Cabinet upon those sections approved by unanimous vote; that as it
appeared the military commanders entertained doubts upon the points
covered by the summary, and as their action hitherto had not been
uniform, he deemed it proper, without further delay, to communicate in
a general order[27] to the respective commanders the points set forth
in the summary.

[Footnote 27: See Executive order of June 20, 1867, pp. 552-556.]

VETO MESSAGES.

WASHINGTON, _March 23, 1867_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I have considered the bill entitled "An act supplementary to an act
entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the
rebel States,' passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration,"
and now return it to the House of Representatives with my objections.

This bill provides for elections in the ten States brought under the
operation of the original act to which it is supplementary. Its details
are principally directed to the elections for the formation of the State
constitutions, but by the sixth section of the bill "all elections"
in these States occurring while the original act remains in force are
brought within its purview. Referring to these details, it will be found
that