Chapter XXV. *to amend the Act passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An Act supplementary to ‘An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the rebel States,’ passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to facilitate their Restoration.”*March 11, 1868.1867
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CHAP. XXV.— An Act *to amend the Act passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An Act supplementary to ‘An Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the rebel States,’ passed March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to facilitate their Restoration.”*March 11, 1868.1867, ch. 6.*Ante*, p. 2.Vol. xiv. p. 428. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Elections in the States lately in rebellion to be determined by a majority of the votes cast.
That hereafter any election authorized by the act passed March twenty-three, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “ An act supplementary to ‘ An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,’ passed March *two*, [second,] eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and to facilitate their restoration,” shall be decided by a majority of the votes actually cast; and atWho may vote. the election in which the question of the adoption or rejection of any constitution is submitted, any person duly registered in the State may vote in the election district where he offers to vote when he has resided therein for ten days next preceding such election, upon presentation of his certificate of registration, his affidavit, or other satisfactory evidence, under such regulations as the district commanders may prescribe.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the constitutional conventionProvision may be made for voting for representatives to Congress and elective officers under the constitution, at time of voting upon ratification of constitution. of any of the States mentioned in the acts to which this is amendatory may provide that at the time of voting upon the ratification of the constitution the registered voters may vote also for members of the House of Representatives of the United States, and for all elective officers provided for by the said constitution; and the same election officers who shall make the return of the votes cast on the ratification or rejection of the constitution, shall enumerate and certify the votes cast for members of Congress.
SCHUYLER COLFAX, *Speaker of the House of Representatives*. B. F. WADE, *President of the Senate pro tempore*. Indorsed by the President: “Received February 28, 1868.” [Note by the Department of State.—The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the House of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]