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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 15 STAT. · Dec. 22, 1868 · Chapter V

Chapter V. to relieve certain Persons of all political Disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Article of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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CHAP. V.— An Act to relieve certain Persons of all political Disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Article of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Dec. 22, 1868. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of each house concurring therein,) * Removal of political disabilities from certain persons. That all political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth article of the amendments of the Constitution of the United States upon the following citizens of South Carolina, viz :
Andrew Ramsey, of Edgefield county ; W. L. Hewiotz, of Sumter county; William A. McDaniels, James Harrison, and John H. Goodwin, of Greenville county ; William J. Mixson, of Barnwell county; Johnson J. Knox, of Sumter county; 436 FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 5, 6, 8, 10, 11. 1869. J. J. Klein, John W. Burbridge, and Charles B. Farmer, of Colleton county ; and George Buist, of Charleston county; A. L. McCaslan and William Hill, of Abbeville county ; John F. Porteous, of Beaufort county ;
C. W. McFadden, of Chester county ; R. H. Edmunds, of Fairfield county ; Alexander McBee, H. M. Smith, and William E. Earle, of Greenville county; W. H. Langston, of Laurens county; John C. Secrest, of Lancaster county; Julius L. Shanklin, of Oconee county; Thompson H. Cooke, George Boliver, and William N. Mount, of Orangeburg county ; Spartan D. Goodlett, R. E. Holcombe, John W. Singleton, L. N. Robbins, and James E. Hagood, of Pickens county; John Heart and William H. Tally, of Richland county;
P. Quin Camp and A. E. Smith of Spartanburg county; R. L. Heriot, of Sumter county; and Charles W. Geddes, of Charleston county, South Carolina; and Edward Cantwell, of Hanover county; and W. J. Clarke, of Craven county, North Carolina; and DeWitt C. Senter, of Granger county, Tennessee; on account of participation in the recent rebellion, be, and the same hereby are, removed. Approved, December 22, 1868.
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