Persons of African and Indian descent are hereby declared to be competent witnesses in all courts of this State, in as full a manner as such persons are by an act of Congress competent witnesses in all the courts of the United States; and all laws and parts of laws of the State excluding such persons from competency, are hereby repealed. This act shall not be so construed as to give colored persons the right to vote, hold office, or sit on juries in his State.

The provisions of this act shall not be so construed as to require the education of colored and white children in the same school.

Source: “Laws in Relation to Freedmen,” 39 Cong., 2 Sess., Senate Exec. Doc. 6, Freedman’s Affairs, 220-21.