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  1. Overview: United States Fifteenth Amendment
  2. Full Record: United States Fifteenth Amendment
  3. Committee:The Senate
  4. Session: 1867-07-08 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

United States Fifteenth Amendment

The Senate

The Senate of the Fortieth Session of Congress

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Session 8118: 1867-07-08 12:00:00

S. 131 is reported by the Committee on the Judiciary

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S. 130

There are 4 proposed amendments related to this document on which decisions have not been taken.

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Construing the act entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,’ passed March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to facilitate restoration,” passed March twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the boards of registration provided for in said act shall have power, and it shall be their duty before allowing the registration of any person, to ascertain, upon such facts or information as they can obtain, whether such person is entitled to be registered under said act, and the oath required by said act shall not be conclusive on such question, and no person shall be registered unless such board shall decide that he is entitled thereto; and such boards shall have power to examine under oath (to be administered by any member of such board) any one touching the qualification of any person claiming registration.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the word “officer” in the oath set forth in said act shall be construed to include every person who has taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, other than senators, members of Congress, and members of the legislatures of States, and no person shall be entitled to be registered, or if registered shall be entitled to vote under said act or the act to which said act is supplementary, unless the requirements of said oath and of said act as herein construed and amended shall be fulfilled; and the superintendents of election under said act shall have power, and it shall be their duty upon the challenge of any registered voter, summarily to decide upon such facts and information as may be made to appear to them, whether such person offering to vote and so challenged is entitled under the provisions of said act and this act to vote, and to receive or reject his vote accordingly.

Decisions yet to be taken

  • S. 130 (introduced on 1867-07-08 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e719722) [This document]
  • S. 123 (introduced on 1867-07-08 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e719718)
  • S. 125 (introduced on 1867-07-08 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e719719)
  • S. 126 (introduced on 1867-07-08 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e719720)
  • S. 129 (introduced on 1867-07-08 12:00:00 - CREATE_FROM - e719721)

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