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An Act prescribing means by which persons who have been disfranchised by the Third Article of the Constitution may be restored to the rights of voters. 1865 5 (1865.6)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0843 and id is 1 raw text is: ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEIBLY. CHAPTER V. An act to amend and re-enact the Thirtl-Sixth Section qf tho Eighty-Eighth lha)ptev of tho Co ,dd qf Virginia qf Eighteen 'fundred and Sixty. Pasaibd Juno 22d,.1860. SRO. 1. B it enacted by the General Assembly qf Virginia, That the thirty-sixth section of the eighty-eighth Soec.,loorchaiptor chapter of the Code of' eighteen hundred and sixty be 86t0 at ended amended and re enacted so as to read as it now stands, ox- and r&onacted, cept that in the third line of said section the words at 'Richmond one cent, shall be stricken out. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from its passage. Commencoment. CHAPTER VI. An act prescribing means by Which peI'sons who have be disfranchised by the Third Article qf the Constitution maty bc resto.ed to the rights qf voters. Passed Juno 22d, 1865. WiEr1EAs, in the opinion of this General Assembly the Preamble. time has arrived when it would be safe and expedient to restore to the rights of voters certain persons v:lio are dis- franchised by the provisions of the third *article of the Con- stitution of Virginia ; now, for the purpose of restoring such persons: SEc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly qf Virginia, That every person possessing in other respects Votoer required the qualifications of a voter, under the Constitution and t00,on'samneaty oWWI of29th blay, laws of the State, who has taken, or shall hereafter take, 866 , the oath prescribed by the Amnesty Proclamation of the President of the United States of the twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, which oath is in the fol- lowing words, to wit: I do solemnly swear (or affirm), root,. in the presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the union of the States thereunder, and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully sup- port all laws and proclamations which have been made, during the existing rebellion, with reference tothe emanci- pation of slaves ; anI an oath to uphold and defend the Atri an ,at', to '1I . I uphold and, do- Government of Virginia, restored by the Convention which I foe ,e,red assembled at Wheeling on the eleventh of June, eighteen Virgin o hundred and sixty-one, which oath is in the following words : I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will uphold Varo of oth.

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