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Historical SummaryA BILL "to facilitate the restoration of the late rebel States" was introduced in the House December 5, 1867, by Ashley of Ohio, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. On the 18th the bill was withdrawn in favor of a bill of similar purport, substantially identical with the act as passed, brought forward by Thaddeus Stevens. The latter bill passed the House the same day by a vote of 104 to 37, 47 not voting. The bill was not at once considered in the Senate. The rejection, February 4, 1868, of the proposed constitution of Alabama, however, when "the registered voters refrained from voting upon the question of ratification in sufficient numbers to reduce the vote to several thousand less than half the registration," hastened action. A substitute for the House bill was reported February 17, and on the 26th was agreed to, the vote being 28 to 6. The House, by a vote of 96 to 32, 61 not voting, concurred. March 11 the bill became law by the ten days rule. REFERENCES. — Text in House and Senate Journals, 40th Cong., 2d Sess., and the Cong. Globe. The text of Ashley’s bill is in the Globe, December 18, House proceedings. On elections in the Southern States see House Exec. Doc. 291, 40th Cong., 1st Sess.; annual report of the Secretary of War, 1868.
No. 156.
Fourth Reconstruction Act
March 11, 1868
An Act to amend the Act . . . [of March 23, 1867] . . .
Be it enacted . . . , That hereafter any election authorized by the act [of March 23,1867] . . . , shall be decided by a majority of the votes actually cast; and at the election in which the question of the adoption or rejection of any constitution is submitted, any person duly registered in the State may vote in the election district where he offers to vote when he has resided therein for ten days next preceding such election, upon presentation of his certificate of registration, his affidavit, or other satisfactory evidence, under such regulations as the district commanders may prescribe.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the constitutional convention of any of the States mentioned in the acts to which this is amendatory may provide that at the time of voting upon the ratification of the constitution the registered voters may vote also for members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and for all elective officers provided for by the said constitution; and the same election officers who shall make the return of the votes cast on the ratification or rejection of the constitution, shall enumerate and certify the votes cast for members of Congress.
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Chicago: "Fourth Reconstruction Act," U.S. Statutes at Large in Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, ed. William MacDonald (1863-1938) (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916), 530. Original Sources, accessed May 4, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2GBPDNBHSZH4TUW.
MLA: . "Fourth Reconstruction Act." U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XV, in Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, edited by William MacDonald (1863-1938), New York, The Macmillan Company, 1916, page 530. Original Sources. 4 May. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2GBPDNBHSZH4TUW.
Harvard: , 'Fourth Reconstruction Act' in U.S. Statutes at Large. cited in 1916, Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913, ed. , The Macmillan Company, New York, pp.530. Original Sources, retrieved 4 May 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2GBPDNBHSZH4TUW.
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