...known as the reconstruction acts of 1867. These acts conferred upon the convention power only to frame "a constitution of government in conformity with the...constitution of the United States in all respects." Act of March 2, 1867. "And said convention, when organized, shall proceed to frame a constitution and...

...fifth section of the original act provides, as to voters, that they shall be "male citizens of the State, twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever...color, or previous condition, who have been resident of said State for one year." This is the general qualification, followed, however, by many exceptions....

...any one of said rebel States shall have formed a constitutional government, in conformity with Mie Constitution of the United States in all respects,...framed by a convention of delegates elected by the persons who may vote upon the ratification or rejection thereof, as hereinafter provided ; and when...

...its commanding officer, and so to remain until a convention of delegates u elected by male citizens twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition," excepting those disqualified by the fourteenth amendment, should frame a state constitution, which,...

...its commanding officer, and so to remain until a convention of delegates " elected by male citizens twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition," excepting those disqualified by the fourteenth amendment, should frame a state constitution, which,...

...provisions for such government. Among them was a way for the formation of State governments by the convention of delegates " elected by the male citizens...upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition." It also provided, when the constitution formed by such convention shall havo been approved by Congress,...

...States that new constitutions should be adopted, framed by " delegates elected by the male citizens, twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition," and securing to all such persons the elective franchise. Under the provisions of this act all the seceding...

...States that new constitutions should be adopted, framed by "delegates elected by the male citizens, twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition," and securing to all such persons the elective franchise. Under the provisions of this act all the seceding...

...without the approval of the President. SEC. 5. That when the people of any one of said rebel States shall have formed a constitution of government in conformity...old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous con dition, who have been resident in said State for one year previous to the day of such election,...

...without the approval of the President. SEC. 5. That when the people of any one of said rebel States shall have formed a constitution of government in conformity...male citizens of said State twenty-one years old and i X\ipward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition, who have been resident in said State for...