disloyal to the Government of the United States, or who use their
official influence in any manner to hinder, delay, prevent, or
obstruct the due and proper administration of this act and the acts
to which it is supplementary.

SEC. 5. That the boards of registration provided for in the act
entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled 'An act to provide
for the more efficient government of the rebel States,' passed March
2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration," passed March 23, 1867, shall
have power, and it shall be their duty, before allowing the
registration of any person, to ascertain, upon such facts or
information as they can obtain, whether such person is entitled to
be registered under said act, and the oath required by said act
shall not be conclusive on such question, and no person shall be
registered unless such board shall decide that he is entitled thereto;
and such board shall also have power to examine, under oath, (to be
administered by any member of such board,) any one touching the
qualification of any person claiming registration; but in every case of
refusal by the board to register an applicant, and in every case of
striking his name from the list as hereinafter provided, the board
shall make a note or memorandum which shall be returned with the
registration list to the commanding general of the district, setting
forth the grounds of such refusal or such striking from the list:
_Provided_, That no person shall be disqualified as member of any
board of registration by reason of race or color.

SEC. 6. That the true intent and meaning of the oath prescribed in
said supplementary act is, (among other things,) that no person who has
been a member of the Legislature of any State, or who had held any
executive or judicial office in any State, whether he has taken an
oath to support the Constitution of the United States or not, and
whether he was holding such office at the commencement of the
rebellion, or had held it before, and who has afterwards engaged in
insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid
or comfort to the enemies thereof, is entitled to be registered or to
vote; and the words "executive or judicial office in any State" in said
oath mentioned shall be construed to include all civil offices created
by law for the administration of any general law of a State, or for
the administration of justice.

SEC. 7. That the time of completing the original registration p