[193] “’Tis out of time to set it forth in the Declaration; but it should have come in the Replication. ’Tis like leaping (as Hale, Chief-Justice, said) before one come to the stile.”—Sir Ralph Bovy’s Case: 1 Ventris, R., 217.
[194] Act to provide for the more efficient Government of the Rebel States, March 2, 1867, Preamble and Section 6: Statutes at Large, Vol. XIV. pp. 428, 429.
[195] Letter to Adjutant-General Townsend, July 10, 1869: Papers relating to the Test Oath: House Miscellaneous Documents, 41st Cong. 2d Sess., No. 8, p. 28. See also Letters of June 16 and 26, 1869, to R. T. Daniel and B. W. Gillis, respectively: Ibid., pp. 24, 15.
[196] Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. pp. 14-16.
[197] Section 6.
[198] Statutes at Large, Vol. XII. pp. 502-3.
[199] Ibid., Vol. XV. p. 344.
[200] Act of July 19, 1867, Sec. 11: Statutes at Large, Vol. XV. p. 16.
[201] For some previous remarks relative to the Reconstruction Act of 1867, see article entitled “Personal Record on Reconstruction with Colored Suffrage,” post, pp. 304-7.
[202] See, ante, pp. 184-5.