… Representatives, many of whom less than a year before had been engaged in active rebel-loin, …

rebel-[**]loin[**lion] (Erase the hyphen and anagrammatize correctly.)

… when an Act to enlarge the provis[**i]ons of the Freedmen's Bureau Bill …

CHAPTER XIV.

The election was held on Ne[**o]vember 7th, …

These decis[**i]ons, as already noted, could not be set aside without …

CHAPTER XV.

… and to conserve the freedom of the sufferage, …

suffe[**]rage (Erase the e.)

… and Elihu B. Washburn[**e] by J. E. Cassady.