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ll be authorized to vote in municipal affairs, except natives of the Gay Head tribe, natives of other Indian tribes of this State married or having been married to a Gay Head woman and resident on the plantation, or such other person resident on the plantation and married or having been married to a Gay Head woman, as shall have the right conferred on him by a vote of two-thirds of the voters of the plantation. Sect. 9. All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. Sect. 10. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. If the legislature should decide not to authorize the appointment of a single commissioner for the State, I would propose the passage of the same Bill with the following amendments:-- Strike out the whole of section 3. Strike out in section 4 the words "said commissioner shall, as soon as is convenient after his appointment," and insert the words--clerks of Marshpee, the guardians of the several plantation tribes, and the clerk of Gay Head shall. In section 5, strike out the words "said commissioner," and insert the words--guardians of the Chappequiddick and Christiantown tribes. Also, in the latter portion of the same section, strike out the word "commissioner" and insert the word--guardian. In section 6, strike out the words "said commissioner," and insert the words--guardian of the Troy or Fall River tribe. Strike out section 7, entire. Alter the numbering of the sections after 2, to correspond to the changes. Insert the following section after section 8:-- Sect. --. No person shall be entitled to support by any tribe in the State, of whose parents, one only was an Indian, and whose residence was not on the plantation of the tribe at the time of his birth, unless the rights of himself or parents as members of the tribe, shall have been subsequently recognized by the tribe. SOME NEGRO MEMBERS OF RECONSTRUCTION CONVENTIONS AND LEGISLATURES AND OF CONGRESS[1] No systematic effort has hitherto been made to save the records of the Negro during the Reconstruction period. American public opinion has been so prejudiced against the Negroes because of their elevation to prominence in southern politics that it has bee
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