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Enfranchising Confederate Soldiers from South Carol

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Fantastic war-date South Carolina broadsheet "An Act To Enable Citizens of the State who are Engaged in Military Service to Exercise the Rights of Suffrage." 9"x12", February 6, 1863, in fourteen parts, signed in type by W.D. Porter, President of the Senate, and A.P. Aldrich, Speaker House of Representatives, and reads in small part: "...Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met with sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That all citizens of this State, who are engaged in the Military service, either of this State or of the Confederate States, shall be entitled to exercise the rights of suffrage, in all respects as fully as they could do were they present in their respective Election Districts, at the polls thereof...That this Act shall continue of force only during the continuance of the existing war between the Confederate States and the United States, and shall be, and is hereby declared to be, a substitute for the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of this State, entitled 'An Act to enable volunteers in the military service to exercise the rights of suffrage,' ratified the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and also a substitute for the provisions of an Ordinance of the Convention, entitled 'An Ordinance to enable citizens of this State who are engaged in military service to exercise the rights of suffrage,' declared and ordained on the sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, which said Act and Ordinance are hereby repealed..." With more on setting up polls, etc. Also contains a sample "RETURN' on verso that provides the date and the camp at which the election was held and the names and oaths of voters. Fine.

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