Chapter LXIX. *to admit the State of Arkansas to Representation in Congress.*June 22, 1868
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CHAP. LXIX.— An Act *to admit the State of Arkansas to Representation in Congress.*June 22, 1868. Preamble. 1867, ch. 153. Vol. xiv. p. 428.Whereas the people of Arkansas, in pursuance of the provisions of an act entitled “An act for the more efficient government of the rebel *Ante,* pp. 2, 14, 41.States,” passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the acts supplementary thereto, have framed and adopted a constitution of State government, which is republican, and the legislature of said State has duly ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and known as article fourteen:
Therefore, *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Arkansas admitted to representation in Congress. That the State of Arkansas is entitled and admitted to representation in Congress as one of the States of the Union upon the following fundamental condition: That the constitution Fundamental condition.of Arkansas shall never be so amended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the United States of the right to vote who are entitled to vote by the constitution herein recognized, except as a punishment for such crimes as are now felonies at common law, whereof they shall have been duly convicted, under laws equally applicable to all the inhabitants of said State: *Provided,* That any alteration of said constitution prospective in its effect may be made in regard to the time and place of residence of voters.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, Speaker of the House of Representatives. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 69, 70. 1868.73 In the Senate of the United States, June 20, 1868. } Arkansas. The President of the United States having returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled “An act to admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress,” with his objections thereto, the House of Representatives proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and Resolved, That the said bill do pass, two thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same.
Attest:EDWD. McPHERSON, *Clerk H. R. U. S.* In the Senate of the United States, June 22, 1868. } The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled “An act to admit the State of Arkansas to representation in Congress,” returned to the House of Representatives by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate, with the message of the President returning the bill: Resolved, That the bill do pass, two thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same.
Attest:GEO C. GORHAM, *Secretary of the Senate.*