with the evidence and reasons for his action in the case, and the name of the person so designated to perform the duties of such office. If the Senate concurs, the President may remove the officer and appoint a successor. If the Senate does not concur, the suspended officer resumes his office, and receives again the official salary and emoluments. The President, in case he shall become satisfied that the suspension by him of a civil officer was made on insufficient grounds, shall be authorized, at any time before reporting the suspension to the Senate, to revoke the suspension and reinstate the officer in the performance of the duties of his office. Sec. 3. The President shall have power to fill all vacancies which may happen during the recess of the Senate, by reason of death or resignation, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. And if no appointment, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall be made to such office so vacant or temporarily filled during the next session of the Senate, the office shall remain in abeyance, without any salary, fees, or emoluments attached thereto, until it shall be filled by appointment thereto, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate; and during such time all the powers and duties belonging to the office shall be exercised by such other officer as may by law exercise such powers and duties in case of a vacancy in such office. Sec. 4. No term of office, the duration of which is limited by law, shall be extended by this act. Sec. 5. Persons accepting or exercising office contrary to this act, are declared to be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon trial and conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 5 years, or both. Sec. 6. Every removal, appointment, or employment, made, had, or exercised, contrary to the provisions of this act, and the making, signing, sealing, countersigning, or issuing of any commission or letter of authority for or in respect to any such appointment or employment, are declared to be high misdemeanors, and, upon trial and conviction thereof, persons guilty thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 5 years, or both: Provided, That the President shall have power to make out and deliver, after the adjournment of the Senate, commissions for all officers whose appointment shall have been advised and consented to by the Senate. Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Senate, at the close of each session, to deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, and to each of his assistants, and to each of the auditors, and to each of the comptrollers in the treasury, and to the treasurer, and to the register of the treasury, a full and complete list, duly certified, of all the persons who shall have been nominated to and rejected by the Senate during such session, and a like list of all the offices to which nominations shall have been made and not confirmed and filled at such session. Sec. 8. The President shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury when he has made an appointment to office without the consent of the Senate; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury thereupon to communicate such notice to all the proper accounting and disbursing officers of his department. Sec. 9. No money shall be paid or received from the treas ury, or paid or received from or retained out of any public moneys or funds of the United States, to or by or for the benefit of any person appointed to or authorized to act in or holding or exercising the duties or functions of any office contrary to the provisions of this act; nor shall any claim, account, or other instrument providing for or relating to such payment, receipt, or retention, be presented, passed, allowed, ap proved, certified, or paid by any officer of the United States, or by any person exercising the functions or performing the duties of any office or place of trust under the United States, for or in respect to such office, or the exercising or performing the functions or duties thereof; and persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, upon trial and conviction thereof, shall be punished therefor by a fine not exceeding $10,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years, or both. [The bill was passed over the President's veto on March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLV.-Proclamations of the President Declared Valid.-Declares valid and conclusive all acts, proclamations, and orders of the President of the United States, or acts done by his authority or approval after the 4th March, 1861, and before the 1st July, 1866, respecting martial law, military trials by courts-martial or military commissions, or the arrest, imprisonment and trial of persons charged with participation in the late rebellion against the United States, or as aiders or abettors thereof, or as guilty of any disloyal practice in aid thereof, or of any violation of the laws or usages of war, or of affording aid and comfort to rebels against the authority of the United States, and all proceedings and acts done or had by courts-martial or military commissions, or arrests and imprisonments made in the premises by any person by the authority of the orders or proclamations of the President. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLVI.-Allotment of Judges of the Supreme Court.-The chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States shall be allotted among the circuits by order of the court. New allotments, if necessary, shall be made by the court; or, if they become necessary at any other time than during the term, by the chief justice. A marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States may be appointed by the court with a salary of $3,000 per annum. The marshal, with the approval of the chief justice, may appoint assistant marshals and messengers. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLVIII.-Department of Education. Establishes at the city of Washington a department of education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education In the several States and Territories, and of diffusing such information respecting the organization and management of schools and school systems, and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school systems, and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the country. At the head of the department shall be a commissioner of education, appointed by the President, with the consent of the Senate. He shall receive a salary of $4,000, and shall have authority to appoint a chief clerk with a salary of $2,000, one clerk the officers of the army and navy, and of the with a salary of $1,800, and one clerk with a Freedmen's Bureau, to prohibit and prevent salary of $1,600. The commissioner shall make whipping or maiming of the person, as a punishan annual report to Congress, and his first report ment for any crime, misdemeanor or offence, by shall present a statement of the land grants by any pretended civil or military authority in any Congress to promote education, their manage-State lately in rebellion until the civil government, the amount of funds arising therefrom, ment of such State shall have been restored, and and the annual proceeds of the same. [March shall have been recognized by the Congress of 2, 1867.] the United States. SEC. 6. All militia forces now CHAP. CLIX-Rights of Volunteers.-In organized or in service in either of the States of computing the service of any army officer, the Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor time of all actual service shall be taken into gia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, account. This provision shall apply to all and Texas, shall be forthwith disbanded, and appointments under the act 1866, ch. 299. All the further organization, arming, or calling into rules as to pay, rank, duties, &c., shall apply service of the said militia forces, or any part alike to officers and soldiers of the regular army thereof, is prohibited under any circumstances and of the volunteer service. State militia whatever, until the same shall be authorized by shall not be affected by this act. Emoluments Congress. [The President, in a message of March of commissioned officers of army shall not be 2, protested against Sec. 2 of this act, which, he increased by act 1864, ch. 145. The first section says, "in certain cases virtually deprives the of act 1865, ch. 79, shall not be retroactive. President of his constitutional functions as Com[March 2, 1867.] mander-in-Chief of the Army," and against Sec. 6, "which denies to ten States of the Union their constitutional right to protect themselves, in any emergency, by their own militia." But notwithstanding his protest against these two sections he signed the act, lest, "by withholding his signature, the necessary appropriation be defeated." [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXII.-Howard University.-Incorporates the Howard University in the District of Columbia. Its net annual income shall not exceed $50,000 over and above and exclusive of the receipts for the education and support of the students of the University. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXIV-National Theological Institute. Amends an act of May 10th, 1866. Changes the name of the "National Theological Institute" to that of the "National Theological Institute and University. The corporation may hold real estate to the amount of $250,000, and shall have the right to confer degrees, and all other rights of universities. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXIX.-Internal Revenue.-An act to amend existing laws relating to internal revenue, and for other purposes. All acts relative to the internal revenue laws now required to be done in May and June, shall be done hereafter in March and April. The tax on cotton shall, after Sept. 1, 1867, be 2 cents per pound, [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXX. Army Appropriations-Irre movability of the General of the Army.SEC. 1. Makes appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June 30, 1868. SEC. 2. The head-quarters of the General of the army shall be at Washington, and all orders and instructions relating to military operations issued by the President or Secretary of War shall be issued through the General of the army, and, in case of his inability, through the next in rank. The General of the army shall not be removed, suspended, or relieved from command, or assigned to duty elsewhere than at said headquarters, except at his own request, without the previous approval of the Senate; and any orders or instructions relating to military operations issued contrary to the requirements of this section shall be null and void; and any officer who shall issue orders or instructions contrary to the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office; and any officer of the army who shall transmit, convey, or obey any orders or instructions so issued contrary to the provisions of this section, knowing that such or ders were so issued, shall be liable to imprisonment for not less than 2 nor more than 20 years, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of CHAP. CLXXIV.-Navy.-The Admiral shall be the ranking officer of Navy, Section 6 provides that disabled persons, who have served as enlisted persons in the navy or marine corps for twenty years, shall receive from the naval pension fund half of their rating when discharged. Disabled persons so serving for not less than ten years, may apply for aid from the surplus income of the naval pension fund. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP, CLXXV.-Brevets in the Army.-Brevet rank may be conferred on officers in the army for gallant conduct in the volunteer service, prior to their appointment in the army. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXVI.-Bankruptcy Act.-An Act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy throughout the United States. The district courts of the United States are constituted courts of bankruptcy under this act, in all matters under, or growing out of which, they have original jurisdiction. They are always open for business under this act, and the powers of the judge in vacation, and when sitting in chambers, are the same as when sitting in court and in term time. They may be held in any part of the district. The circuit courts have also a general supervision of all cases under this act, and may be appealed to from the district courts, with which they have also concurrent jurisdiction in all cases wherein the assignee in bankruptcy is a party; but no claim can be maintained by or against an assignee touching the bankrupt's property after the lapse of two years. One or more registers shall be appointed in each congressional district, whose duty it is to act in the place of the judge in all merely administrative and uncontested cases. Bankruptcy may be either voluntary or involuntary. The debtor may assume voluntary bankruptcy if his aebts exceed three hundred dollars, by filing a petition, setting forth his debts, an inventory of all his possessions, and a declaration of willingness to give them up to his creditors. A warrant then issues from the court appointing a time and place for a meeting of the creditors. At this meeting an assignee or assignees are chosen, subject to the approval of the court, to whom is delivered all the property of the bankrupt, except that specifically exempted. The assignee possesses all the powers for recovering debts due the debtor, which the latter would otherwise have possessed. The court may examine the bankrupt, or the wife of the bankrupt, on oath, or any person who may be able to give evidence on any matter pertaining to the bankrupt's affairs, and may compel their attendance. All claims against the bankrupt must be duly verified in writing and on oath. Those which are approved are registered by the assignee, and all creditors, whose claims are allowed, are entitled to share in the bankrupt's estate, pro ratâ, no priority of claim being allowed except for the wages of certain servants. At the expiration of each three months after the adjudication of bankruptcy, the approved creditors may receive dividends on their claims; and after all claims have been decided upon, and the assignee's accounts have been approved by the court, all expenses of the proceedings are paid from the portion of the estate remaining in the hands of the assignee, and the residue divided finally among the creditors. After six months from the adjudication of bankruptcy, the bankrupt may receive a discharge from all previous debts honestly contracted by and due from him, provided there has been no fraud on his part in the proceedings. Any conveyance or transfer of property made by the debtor to a preferred creditor, in view of insolvency, within four months before the filing of a petition, in bankruptcy, is void; and the creditor who, knowing the facts, receives such conveyance, forfeits all share in the bankrupt's estate, and also double the value of the money or property so obtained, which is recoverable by the assignee for the benefit of the estate. A partnership or firm may be made bankrupt by the filing of a petition by any member, when not only the joint property but the separate estates of each member of the firm is taken by the assignee. Separate accounts are kept by the assignee, who pays the private debts of each member from his own estate, and the balance is added to the joint stock for the benefit of the creditors of the firm, if the property of the firm shall not have been sufficient to liquidate the claims against it. A certificate of discharge is given or refused to each partner according to the merits of his individual case. Where partners reside in different districts, jurisdiction is in that district where the petition is first filed. Involuntary bankruptcy may be forced upon any debtor who has committed certain acts of actual or constructive fraud, by which he is deemed to have committed an act of bankruptcy, on the petition of any one of his creditors whose debt amounts to $250. If the debtor so demand, the question of fact as to the alleged act of bankruptcy may be tried by a jury; and if the allegations in the question be maintained, or if the debtor allow the matter to go by default, a warrant of bankruptcy issues, and the estate of the bankrupt is settled in a manner similar to that in a case of voluntary bankruptcy. Fines and imprisonment are decreed against either bank rupts or officers who are guilty of fraud or offences under this act. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXVII.-Public Lands.-Town authorities may enter public lands occupied as town sites, at minimum price, in trust for the several use and benefit of the occupants thereof. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXVIII.-Port of Albany.-Makes Albany a port of delivery. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXX.-Imprisonment for DebtState laws for discharge from imprisonment for debt shall apply to process from courts of the United States. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXXII.-Mail Steamship Service with the Hawaiian Islands.-Authorizes the postmaster-general to establish ocean mail steam service between the United States and the Hawaiian Islands by contract with the lowest bidder who is a citizen of the United States. The contract shall go into effect on or before Jan, 1, 1868. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXXV.-Appeals and Writs of Error.-Appeals or writs of error brought from districts in which the sessions of the courts have been interrupted, shall be valid, though the time for bringing the same may have previously expired; and new appeals or writs of error may be brought within one year from the passage of this act. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXXVI.-Public Fund in Custody of Freedmen's Bureau.-The commissioner of the bureau of refugees, freedmen, and abandoned lands, is constituted the custodian of retained bounty fund, and appointed trustee for the benefit of colored soldiers and their lawful representatives. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CLXXXVII.-Peonage Abolished.The holding of any person to service or labor under the system of service or labor known as peonage, is declared unlawful and abolished in New Mexico, or in any other Territory or State of the Union. All acts, etc., establishing it are declared void, and the civil and military officers shall have the duty to enforce this act. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CXCIII.-Crimes.-Robbery and lar ceny of personal property belonging to the United States shall be punished by fine not exceeding $5,000, or by imprisonment at hard labor not less than 1 nor more than 10 years, or by both. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CXCIV.-Compound Interest Notes. -Temporary loan certificates may be issued to redeem compound interest notes. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CXCVI.-Removal of Cases from State Courts.-Suits in State courts may be removed to circuit court of the United States, when, from local influence, there is reason to believe that justice cannot be had in State court. [March 2, 1867.] CHAP. CXCVII.-Wool.-Provides increased revenue from imported wool. [March 2, 1867.] PUBLIC RESOLUTIONS. the mails, free of postage, to the honorably discharged soldiers of West Virginia, and to the relatives and friends of those who were killed or died of wounds or disease while in service, certain medals furnished by the legislature of that State. [January 14, 1867.] No. 5.-Post Office and U. S. Court in New York-Appoints a commission to purchase for the sum of $500,000 the lower part of City Hall Park, as site for a building for the postoffice and United States courts in New York. [Jan. 22, 1867.] of Brevet Lieutenant-General Winfield Scott. [March 2, 1867.] No. 46.-Payment Prohibited to Certain Persons.-Prohibits payment by any government officer to any person not known to have been opposed to the rebellion. [March 2, 1867.] No. 49.-National Banking Associations. Excess of duty paid by any national bank shall be refunded. [March 2, 1867.] No. 51.-Ship Canal through the Isthmus of Darien.-Directs the Secretary of State to obtain from the United States of Colombia author No. 7.-National Asylum for Disabled Volity for the United States to make survey of the unteers.-The Secretary of War may transfer to Isthmus of Darien for a ship canal. [March 2, the National Asylum for Disabled Volunteer 1867.] Soldiers any of the property of the United States No. 52.-Thanking the Chambers of Brazil. still remaining at Point Lookout, Md. [Jan.-Acknowledges resolutions of sorrow for death 29, 1867.] of President Lincoln adopted by the Chambers of Brazil. [March 2, 1867.] No. 11-Internal Revenue. -Alcohol and burning fluid made from certain materials on which taxes have been paid shall be exempt from tax. The annual tax of $50 on distillers of burning fluid, &c., is repealed. [Feb. 5, 1867.] No. 12.-Kentucky Militia.-Directs the Secretary of War to cause the claims of the Kentucky forces under the command of James S. Fish to be investigated and paid. [Feb. 8, 1867.] No. 14.-Alcohol in Bond.-Alcohol may be withdrawn from bond by curators of scientific institutions without payment of internal tax. [Feb. 18, 1867.] No. 53.-Post-Office and Sub-Treasury of Boston.-Appoints a commission to select site for Post-Office and Sub-Treasury in Boston. [March 2, 1867.] No. 55.-Exchange of Public Documents.50 copies of all documents printed by order of Congress, and 50 copies additional of all documents printed in excess of the usual number, together with 50 copies of each publication issued by any department or bureau of the government, shall be exchanged, through the agency of the Smithsonian Institution, for works published in foreign countries, said works to be deposited in the library of Congress. [March 2, 1867.] No. 15.-Ocean Mail Service.-The Postmaster-General is authorized to employ ocean mail service between San Francisco, Cal., and Port-sents the thanks of Congress to Cyrus W Field, land, Oregon, three times per month, the cost not to exceed $25,000 per annum. [Feb. 18, 1867.] No. 16.-Pensions.-The pensions of widows of revolutionary soldiers shall, from Sept. 30, 1865, be paid at the same rate as the deceased soldiers would be entitled if living. [Feb. 18, 1867.] No. 17.- David's Island.-Authorizes the Secretary of War to purchase David's Island, in Long Island Sound, at the sum of $88,500. [Feb. 18, 1867.] No. 23.-Supplies for the People of the Southern States. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to assign a public vessel to transport supplies to the suffering people of the Southern States. [Feb. 22, 1867.] No. 26.-Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Darien.-Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to furnish aid and facilities to citizens of the United States engaged in the survey of a route for a ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien, [Feb. 25, 1867.] No. 80.-Additional Compensation to Civil Officers. Twenty per cent. additional pay shall be allowed to certain persons in the civil service at Washington, D. C. This resolution shall not apply to those whose salary exceeds $3,500 a year. [Feb. 28, 1867.] No. 57. Thanks to Cyrus W. Field.-Prefor his foresight, courage, and determination in establishing telegraphic communication by means of the Atlantic cable, traversing mid-ocean and connecting the Old World with the New; and requests the President to cause a gold medal to be struck, with suitable emblems, devices, and inscription, to be presented to Mr. Field. [March 2, 1867.] PROCLAMATIONS. Dec. 28, 1866.-Tonnage Duties on French Vessels. Proclaims that on and after Jan. 1, 1867, so long as vessels of the United States shall be admitted to French ports on the same terms as vessels belonging to citizens of France, French vessels entering ports of the United States will be subject to no higher rates of duty on tonnage than are levied upon vessels of the United States. Jan. 12, 1867.-Enforcing Neutrality in the Civil War of Japan.-Calls a public attention to and sanctions and confirms a notification by the minister resident of the United States in Japan forbidding American merchant vessels from stopping or anchoring at any port or roadstead in that country except the three opened ports, viz: Kanagawa (Yokohama), Nagasaki, and Hakodate, unless in distress or forced by stress of weather, as provided by treaty, and giving notice that masters of vessels committing a breach of the regulation would thereby render themselves liable to prosecution and punishment, and also to forfeiture of the protection of the United No. 45.-Equestrian Statue to Lieutenant- States, if the visit to such non-opened port or General Winfield Scott.-Authorizes the Secre- roadstead should either involve a breach of tary of War to contract, at a price not exceeding treaty or be construed as an act in aid of the in$20,000, for an equestrian statue, in bronze,surrection or rebellion in Japan. No. 81.-Agricultural Colleges. -Extends the provisions of the acts in regard to agricultural colleges (1862, ch. 180, and 1865, ch. 209) to the State of Tennessee. [Feb. 28, 1867.] Jan. 29, 1867.-Tonnage Duties on Hawaiian Vessels.-Proclaims that acts imposing discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States shall be suspended as respects vessels of the Hawaiian Islands, and their cargoes, from December 10, 1866, so long as the reciprocal exemption of the vessels of the United States, and the produce, manufactures, and merchandise imported in them into the dominions of the Hawaiian Islands, shall be continued on the part of the government of the King of the Hawaiian Islands. March 1, 1867.-Admission of Nebraska.-Pro-ity of the law, to maintain the supremacy of the claims that the fundamental conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Nebraska to entitle that State to admission to the Union have been ratified and accepted, and that the admission of the State into the Union is now complete. I call upon all good and well disposed citizens of the United States to remember that upon the said Constitution and laws, and upon the judgments, decrees, and process of the Courts made in accordance with the same, depend the protection of the lives, liberty, property, and happiness of the people. And I exhort them everywhere to testify their devotion to their country, their pride in its prosperity and greatness, and their determination to uphold its free institutions, by a hearty co-operation in the efforts of the Government to sustain the author March 30, 1867.-Extraordinary Session of the Senate.-Convenes an extraordinary session of the Senate for April 1, 1867. September 3, 1867.-The supremacy of Civil Courts to be enforced.-After referring to the duty of the President as chief executive officer of the Government of the United States, to the supremacy of the Constitution by which the judges in every State are bound, to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and the inferior courts which Congress may from time to time ordain and establish, to the duty of all civil and military officers to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, to the duty of all officers of the army and navy to obey the orders of the President, the General, or other superior officers set over them, to the right of the Executive to secure the faithful execution of the laws of the United States by the employment of the land and naval forces, in case it shall become impracticable to enforce them by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the proclamation continues as follows: Federal Constitution, and to preserve unimpaired the integrity of the national Union. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and sign the same with my hand. Done at the city of Washington, the third day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven. ANDREW JOHNSON. By the President: WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. - Sept. 8, 1867.Amnesty Proclaimed. The proclamation at first refers to the declaration by both Houses of Congress, in July, 1861, that "the war then existing was not waged on the part of the Government in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of the States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired, and that as soon as these objects should be accomplished the war ought to cease;" to the proclamations by the President, on Dec. 8, 1863, and March 26, 1864, "offering amnesty and pardon to all persons who had directly or indirectly participated in the then existing rebellion, except as in those proclamations was specified and reserved;" to the proclamation of May 29, 1865, granting "to all persons who had directly or indirectly participated in the then existing rebellion, except as therein excepted, amnesty and pardon, with restoration of all the rights of property except as to slaves, and except in certain cases where legal proceedings had been instituted, but upon Whereas, Reasonable and well-founded ap- condition, that such persons should take and prehensions exist that such ill-advised and un-subscribe an oath therein prescribed, which oath lawful proceedings may be again attempted there or elsewhere: Whereas, Impediments and obstructions serious in their character have recently been interposed in the States of North Carolina and South Carolina, hindering and preventing for a time a proper enforcement there of the laws of the United States, and of the judgments and decrees of a lawful court thereof, in disregard of the command of the President of the United States; and should be registered for permanent preservation, but excepting and excluding from the benNow therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President efits of this proclamation fourteen extensive of the United States, do hereby warn all persons classes of persons therein specially described;" to against obstructing or hindering in any manner the proclamation of April 2, 1866, declaring that whatsoever the faithful execution of the Consti-"the insurrection was at an end and was thencetution and the law; and I do solemnly enjoin forth to be so regarded." The President then and command all officers of the Government, goes on to state, that "there now exists no civil and military, to render due submission and organized armed resistance of misguided citizens, obedience to said laws, and to the judgments or others, to the authority of the United States and decrees of the Courts of the United States, In the States of Georgia, South Carolina, Virand to give all the aid in their power necessary ginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, to the prompt enforcement and execution of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Florida and said laws, decrees, judgments, and process, and Texas, and the laws can be sustained and I do hereby enjoin upon the officers of the army enforced therein by the proper civil authority, and navy to assist and sustain the Courts and State or Federal, and the people of said States other civil authorities of the United States in a are well and loyally disposed, and have confaithful administration of the laws thereof, and formed, or if permitted to do so will conin the judgments, decrees, mandates and pro- form, to the condition of affairs growing out cesses of the Courts of the United States. And of the amendment to the Constitution of the |