shall be imposed or
permitted because of race or color, or previous condition of slavery,
other or greater than the penalty or punishment to which white persons
may be liable by law for the like offence. But the jurisdiction
conferred by this section upon the officers of the bureau shall not
exist in any State where the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has
not been interrupted by the rebellion, and shall cease in every State
when the courts of the State and of the United States are not disturbed
in the peaceable course of justice, and after such State shall be fully
restored in its constitutional relations to the government, and shall be
duly represented in the Congress of the United States.

Sec. 15. _And be it further enacted_, That all officers, agents, and
employes of this bureau, before entering upon the duties of their
office, shall take the oath prescribed in the first section of the act
to which this is an amendment; and all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SCHUYLER COLFAX,

_Speaker of the House of Representatives_.

LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER,

_President of Senate pro tempore_.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UNITED STATES,

_July_ 16, 1866.

The President of the United States having returned to the House of
Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled "An act to
continue in force and to amend 'An act to establish a Bureau for the
Relief of Freedmen and Refugees,' and for other purposes," with his
objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance
of the Constitution to reconsider the same; and

_Resolved_, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of
Representatives agreeing to pass the same.

Attest: EDWARD MCPHERSON,

_Clerk House of Representatives of the United States._

IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,

_July 16, 1866._

The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to
reconsider the bill entitled "An act to continue in force and to amend
'An act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees,'
and for other purposes," returned to the House of Representatives by the
President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the
House of Representatives to the Senate with the message of the President
returning the bill--

_Resolved_, That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the Senate agreeing to
pass the same.

Attest: