...on the second day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and by acts supplementary thereto passed on the twenty-third day of March and the nineteenth day of July,...

...meaning of the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states,' and of an act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, in the year one thousand...

...meaning of the act of the second day of March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, entitled 'An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states,' and of an act supplementary thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March, in the year one thousand...

...authority by the generals commanding. But in my opinion the duties assigned to the military commanders in the act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States and its supplement are specifically intrusted to them, and they are not bound to perform these duties in...

...registered voters of the State, in conformity to the act of Congress passed March 2, 1867, entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and the acts supplementary thereto. - ART. 153. The election for the ratification of the constitution 'shall...

...on the second day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, and entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and by acts supplement !fry thereto, passed on the twenty-third day of March and the nineteenth day of...

...Florida and Alabama (a district organized under the of Congress of the 2d March, 1867, entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states," and an act of the 23d of the same month supplementary thereto), for the purpose of restraining the defendants...

...lawmakers. The first reconstruction act passed by the American Congress, in 1867, bore the title, "An Act to Provide for the More Efficient Government of the Rebel States"; and it began with the words, "Whereas no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property...

...to the command of the several military districts, under the act passed March 2d 1867, entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states" and the act supplementary thereto passed March 23d 1867; also copies of all opinions given to him by the...

...municipal officers would be held in Louisiana until. the provisions of the laws of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States," and of the act supplemental thereto, should have been complied with. I also announced that until elections...