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personal security, and the acquisition, enjoyment, and disposition of estate, real and personal, including the constitutional right to bear arms, shall be secured to and enjoyed by all the citizens of such State or district without respect to race or color, or previous condition of slavery. And whenever in either of said States or districts the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion, and until the same shall be fully restored, and until such State shall have been restored in its constitutional relations to the government, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United States, the President shall, through the Commissioner and the officers of the bureau, and under such rules and regulations as the President, thought he Secretary of War, shall prescribe, extend military protection and have military jurisdiction over all cases and questions concerning the free enjoyment of such immunities and rights, and no penalty or punishment for any violation of law shall be imposed or permitted because of race or color, or previous condition of slavery, other or grater than the penalty or punishment to which while persons may be liable by law for the like offence. But the jurisdiction conferred by this section upon the officers of the bureau shall not exist in any Tate where the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has not been interrupted by the rebellion, and shall cease in every State when the courts of the State and the United States are not disturbed in the peaceable course of justice, and after such state shall be fully restored in its constitutional relations to the government, and shall be duly represented in the Congress of the United States. 
SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That all officers, agents, and employees of this bureau, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take the oath prescribed in the first section if the act to which this is an amendment; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
SCHYULER COLFAX, 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
LAFAYETTE S. FOSTER, 
President of the Senate pro tempore. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES UNITED STATES, 
July 16, 1866. 
The President of the United States having returned to the House of Representatives, in which it originated, the bill entitled "An act to continue in force and to amend 'An act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees,' proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the same; and 
Resolved, That the said bill pass, two-thirds of the House of Representatives agreeing to pass the same. 
EDWARD MCPHERSON, 
Clerk House of Representatives of the United States, 
July 16, 1866. 
The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled "An act to continue in force and to amend "An act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees,' and for other purposes," returned to the House of Representatives, by the President of the United States, with his objections, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate with the message of the President returning the bill-
Resolved, That the bill do pass, two-thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same. 
Attest: 
J.W. Forney, 
Secretary of the Senate of the United States.