The Clerk read as follows: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following: bat said late socalled confederateStates shall be divided into military districts and made subject to the military authority of the U.S. as here inafter Prescribed, and for that purpose Virginia shall constitute the 1st district; NCarolina and SCarolina, the 2nd district: Georgia, Ala: Arkansaa nsd t Florida rtthhe tdhisirtdricdti;straicntd; MLoisusiissisainpapi and Texas the 5th district. SEC. 2. Abife:, That 5 officers of the Army, each of whom shall be of the rank of major general or brigadier general, be, and they are hereby, detailed to the command of the several districts GenerablyotfhitsheacAtrcmreyated and established; and the is hereby authorized and required to designate said officersand assignthemsev erally to their respectivecommands. The General of the Army is hereby required, under the direction of the President, to detail a sufficient force to enable eachofficer so assignedto, perform his duties and enforcehis authority within the district to which he is assigned. Sec. 3. Abife:, That it shall be the duty of each officer, assigned as aforesaid to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to supPress, insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished all disturbers of the public peaceand criminals, an to this end he may allow local civil tribunals to jurisdiction take of and to try offenders, or, when in judgment his it may be necessaryfor the trial of ers, offend he shall havepower to organize military commissions or tribunals for that purpose, anything in the constitution and laws of any of crate States the socalled confed: to the contrary notwithstanding; and all legislative or judicial proceeding sor processes to prevent or control the proceedings of said military tribunals, and all interference by said pretended State governments with, the exercise of authority military under thisact, shall bevoid and of no effect. SEC. 4. Abife: That courts, and judicial officersof the U.S shall not issue writs of habeascorpus in behalf of persons in custody, o: military in cases in which the person is held to answer only for a crime or crimes exclusively within the jurisdiction of the courts of the U.S. within said military districts and indictable therein, or unlesssomecommissionedofficeron duty in the district wherein the person is detained shall indorse upon said petition a stattementcertifying, upon honor, that he has knowledge, or information, as to the causeand circumstances of the allegedde tention, and that he belieyesthe same to be ful; wrong: and further, that he belieyes that the indorsed petition is preferred in good faith, and in furtherance of justice, and not to hinder or delay the punishment of crime: All persons, put under military arrest by virtue of this act shall be tried without unnecessary, delay, and no cruel or unusual punishment shall beinflicted. Ske. 5. Abife:, That no of any military commission sentence or tribunal hereby authorized affecting the life or liberty of any person shall be executed until it is oby the officer in commandof the district, and the laws and regulations for the government of the Army shall not be affected by this act, except in so far as they conflict with its provisions.