Chap. 125.—JOINT RESOLUTION Petitioning Congress to Remove the
Disabilities of Citizens of Virginia.

Agreed to February 11, 1870.

The state of Virginia having assumed her position as one of
the loyal and independent states of the Union, with many of
her citizens still laboring under disabilities imposed by the
operation of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution:

Be it therefore resolved by the senate and house of dele-

tes of Virginia, That the congress of the United States be
hereby petitioned and earnestly urged to remove, without delay,
all disabilities incurred by reason of participation in the late
war, from all citizens of Virginia.

Resolved, That the governor be requested to transmit a
copy of these resolutions to the president of the senate and
speaker of the house of representatives of the congress of the

nited States, and also to our senators and representatives in
congress.