isions: _Provided_, That no
sentence of death under the provisions of this act shall be carried
into effect without the approval of the President.

SEC. 5. That when the people of any one of said rebel States shall
have formed a constitution of government in conformity with the
Constitution of the United States in all respects, framed by a
convention of delegates elected by the male citizens of said State
twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous
condition, who have been resident in said State for one year previous
to the day of such election, except such as may be disfranchised for
participation in the rebellion, or for felony at common law, and when
such constitution shall provide that the elective franchise shall be
enjoyed by all such persons as have the qualifications herein stated
for electors of delegates, and when such constitution shall be ratified
by a majority of the persons voting on the question of ratification who
are qualified as electors for delegates, and when such constitution
shall have been submitted to Congress for examination and approval,
and Congress shall have approved the same, and when said State, by a
vote of its legislature elected under said constitution, shall have
adopted the amendment to the Constitution of the United States,
proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and known as article fourteen,
and when said article shall have become a part of the Constitution
of the United States, said State shall be declared entitled to
representation in Congress, and Senators and Representatives shall be
admitted therefrom on their taking the oaths prescribed by law, and
then and thereafter the preceding sections of this act shall be
inoperative in said State: _Provided_, That no person excluded from
the privilege of holding office by said proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United States shall be eligible to election as a
member of the convention to frame a constitution for any of said
rebel States, nor shall any such person vote for members of such
convention.

SEC. 6. That until the people of said rebel States shall be by law
admitted to representation in the Congress of the United States, any
civil governments which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional
only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the
United States at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the
same; and in all elections to any office under such provis