Select Statutes and Other Documents Illustrative of the History of the United States, 1861-1898

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William MacDonald
Macmillan, 1903 - 442 halaman

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Supplementary National Loan Act August 5 1861
19
Confiscation Act August 6 1861
20
Act authorizing the Seizure of Railroad and Telegraph January 31 1862
25
Act prohibiting the Coolie Trade February 19 1862
27
Act for an Additional Article of War March 13 1862
31
Act authorizing further Purchase of Coin March 17 1862
32
Joint Resolution on Compensated Emancipation April 10
34
Act abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia April 1
35
Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary States June
39
Abolition of Slavery in the Territories June 19 1862
42
AntiPolygamy Act July 1 1862
43
Oath of Office July 2 1862
45
Election of Representatives by Districts July 14 1862
47
Confiscation Act July 17 1862
48
Act to authorize Payments in Stamps July 17 1862
53
Militia Act July 17 1862
54
Act admitting West Virginia December 31 1862
56
Emancipation Proclamation January 1 1863
59
Act to punish Correspondence with Rebels February 25 1863
61
Act to provide Ways and Means for the Support of the Govern ment March 3 1863
62
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68
Act relating to Habeas Corpus March 3 1863
75
Act for the Collection of Abandoned Property March 3 1863
79
Resolution against Foreign Mediation March 3 1863
81
Proclamation of Amnesty December 8 1863
85
Supplementary Enrolment Act February 24 1864
88
National Bank Act June 3 1864
93
oo Act admitting Arkansas to Kepresentation in Congress Jun 1868
110
Repeal of the Fugitive Slave
113
June 28 1864
114
Enrolment Act July 4 1864
117
Act to encourage Immigration July 4 1864
120
Proclamation regarding Reconstruction July 8 1864
122
Electoral Count February 8 1865
128
Freedmens Bureau March 3 1865
129
Proclamation of Amnesty May 29 1865
133
Proclamation appointing a Governor for North Carolina May
135
Thirteenth Amendment December 18 1865
138
Supplementary Freedmens Bureau Act July 16 1866
147
Restoration of Tennessee July 24 1866
151
Election of Senators July 25 1866
152
Franchise in the District of Columbia January 8 1867
154
Elective Franchise in the Territories January 31 1867
155
First Reconstruction Act March 2 1867
156
Tenure of Office Act March 2 1867
160
Act of Indemnity March 2 1867
161
Abolition of Peonage March 2 1867
168
Payments to Disloyal Persons March 2 1867
169
Second Reconstruction Act March 23 1867
170
Treaty with Russia for
174
Third Reconstruction
179
Act suspending Reduction
183
Articles of Impeachment
184
Fourth Reconstruction
198
Act admitting North Carolina South Carolina Louisiana Ged Alabama and Florida to Representation in Congress 25 1868
201
Eighthour Law June 25 1868
203
Cession of Alaska March 30 1867
204
Equal Rights in the District of Columbia March 18 1869
216
Amended Tenure of Office Act April 5 1869
217
Submission of the Constitutions of Virginia Mississippi and April 10 1869
218
Reconstruction of Georgia December 22 1869
221
Admission of Virginia to Representation in Congress Ja 26 1870
224
Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution March 30 1870
229
Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment May 31 1870
230
Redemption and Bank Note Act July 12 1870
235
Naturalization Act July 14 1870
238
Act for refunding the National Debt July 14 1870
242
Act for the Restoration of Georgia July 15 1870
246
San Domingo Commissioners January 12 1871
247
Supplementary Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment
250
28 1871
262
Act to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment April 20 1871
268
Act removing Political Disabilities May 22 1872
290
Supplementary Federal Election Law June 10 1872
291
Coinage Act February 12 1873
294
Act regarding United States Notes and National Bank
296
June 20 1874
297
Resumption of Specie Payments January 14 1875
301
Civil Rights Act March 1 1875
303
Joint Resolution for the Issue of Silver Coin July 22 1876
306
Electoral Count Act January 29 1877
308
Coinage of the Standard Silver Dollar February 28 1878
313
Act forbidding the further Retirement of Legal Tender Notes May 31 1878
315
Use of the Army at the Polls May 4 1880
317
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318
March 3 1881
319
Act restricting Chinese Immigration May 6 1882
323
National Bank Circulation Bonds and Gold Certificates July 12 1882
328
Civil Service Act January 16 1883
332
112
339
Presidential Succession Act January 19 1886
342
February 8 1887
349
Electoral Count Act February 3 1887
352
Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians
372
Ownership of Real Estate in the Territories
377
Retirement of the Trade Dollar March 3 1887
379
AntiPolygamy Act March 3 1887
380
Chinese Exclusion Act September 13 1888
389
AntiTrust Act July 2 1890
395
Silver Purchase Act July 14 1890
397
Original Package Act August 8 1890
401
AntiLottery Act September 18 1890
402
Immigration and Contract Labor March 3 1891
405
Repeal of the Silver Purchase Act of 1890
411
President Clevelands Venezuelan Message
413
Alien Ownership of Real Estate in the Territories March 2 1897
419
Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands July 7 1898
426
Treaty of Paris December 10 1898
429
Proclamation declaring the Insurrection at an End April 2 1866 139
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