RECONSTRUCTION MEASURES OF CONGRESS.

RECONSTRUCTION ACT OF THE THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS, OF MARCH 2, 1867.

THE bill passed the House on February 20, 1867, by the following vote-yeas 128, nays 46. The Senate passed the bill on the same day-yeas 35, nays 7. The bill was vetoed on March 2. Both Houses of Congress re-passed it on the same day, the House by a vote of yeas 138, nays 51; the Senate by a vote of yeas 38, nays 10.

AN ACT to provide efficient Government for the Insurrectionary States.

Whereas, No legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the Rebel States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, and Arkansas; and