Chapter CCXCIX. relating to the State of Georgia
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CHAP. CCXCIX.— An Act relating to the State of Georgia.July 15, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the State of GeorgiaState of Georgia declared entitled to representation in Congress. having complied with the reconstruction acts, and the fourteenth and364 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 299, 300, 301. 1870. fifteenth articles of amendments to the Constitution of the United States having been ratified in good faith by a legal legislature of said State, it is hereby declared that the State of Georgia is entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States.
But nothing inRight of the people of Georgia to elect members of assembly not affected hereby.Term of office of any officer not affected. this act contained shall be construed to deprive the people of Georgia of the right to an election for members of the general assembly of said State, as provided for in the Constitution thereof; and nothing in this or any other act of Congress shall be construed to affect the term to which any officer has been appointed or any member of the general assembly elected as prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Georgia.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That so much of the act entitledRepeal of part of act 1867, ch. 170, § 6. Vol. xiv. p. 487. prohibiting the organization, &c. of the militia forces in certain States. “An act making appropriations for the support of the army for the year ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other purposes,” approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, as prohibits the organization, arming, or calling into service of the militia forces in the States of Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, July 15, 1870.