States; and the fact that any State, or the
people thereof, shall on that day be, in good faith, represented in
the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at
elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such State
shall have participated, shall, in the absence of strong
countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such
State, and the people thereof, are not in rebellion against the
United States.

That attention is hereby called to an act of Congress entitled "An
act to make an additional article of war," approved March 13, 1862,
and which act is in the words and figures following:

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled_, That hereafter the
following shall be promulgated as an additional article of war, for
the government of the army of the United States, and shall be
obeyed and observed as such.

ARTICLE.--All officers or persons in the military or naval service
of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the
forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning
fugitives from service or labor who may have escaped from any
persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any
officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating
this article shall be dismissed from the service.

SEC. 2. _And be it further enacted_, That this act shall take
effect from and after its passage.

Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to
suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and
confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July
17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following:

SEC. 9. _And be it further enacted_, That all slaves of persons who
shall hereafter be engaged in rebellion against the government of
the United States or who shall in any way give aid or comfort
thereto, escaping from such persons and taking refuge within the
lines of the army; and all slaves captured from such persons or
deserted by them, and coming under the control of the government of
the United States; and all slaves of such persons found _on_ [or]
being within any place occupied by rebel forces, and afterwards
occupied by the forces