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

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William MacDonald
Macmillan, 1909 - United States - 442 pages

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Act to authorize Payments in Stamps July 17 1862
53
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
Enrolment Act March 3 1863
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
Purchase of Bonds
105
AntiPolygamy
106
1868
110
May 4 1880
111
Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law June 28 1864
113
Intercourse with Insurrectionary States July 2 1864
114
Enrolment Act July 4 1864
117
Act restricting Chinese Immigration 108 National Bank Circulation Bonds and Gold Certificates July NUMBER
118
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
Freedom for Soldiers Families March 3 1865
132
Proclamation of Amnesty May 29 1865
133
Proclamation appointing a Governor for North Carolina May
135
Thirteenth Amendment December 18 1865
138
First Civil Rights Act April 9 1866
141
Restoration of Tennessee July 24 1866
151
Election of Senators July 25 1866
152
Franchise in the District of Columbia
154
Elective Franchise in the Territories
155
First Reconstruction Act March 2 1867
156
Tenure of Office Act March 2 1867
160
Act of Indemnity March 2 1867
164
Command of the Army March 2 1867
166
Abolition of Peonage March 2 1867
168
Payments to Disloyal Persons March 2 1867
169
Second Reconstruction Act March 23 1867
170
Act admitting North Carolina South Carolina Louisiana Georgia Alabama and Florida to Representation in Congress June 25 1868
201
Eighthour Law June 25 1868
203
Oath of Office July 11 1868
204
Joint Resolution excluding Electoral Votes of the Late Rebellious States July 20 1868
205
Rights of American Citizens in Foreign States July 27 1868
206
Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution July 28 1868
208
January 8 1867
211
Provisional Governments of Virginia Texas and Mississippi Feb ruary 18 1869
213
Redemption and Bank Note Act July 12 1870
235
Naturalization Act July 14 1870
238
Act for the Restoration of Georgia July 15 1870
246
San Domingo Commissioners January 12 1871
247
Supplementary Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment February
249
Supplementary Federal Election Law Coinage Act February 12 1873
291
June 20 1874
297
Act regarding United States Notes and National Bank Currency 98 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 PAGE
317
12 1882
328
Civil Service Act January 16 1883
332
Contract Labor Act February 26 1885
339
Presidential Succession Act January 19 1886
342
Act prohibiting Special Laws in the Territories July 30 1886
344
Electoral Count Act February 3 1887
347
Interstate Commerce Act February 4 1887
352
Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians
372
Ownership of Real Estate in the Territories
377
Retirement of the Trade Dollar
379
AntiPolygamy Act March 3 1887
380
March 3 1887
383
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
419
Recognition of the Independence of Cuba April 20 1898
422
Declaration of War April 25 1898
424
Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands July 7 1898
426
Treaty of Paris December 10 1898
429
March 3 1887
437
154
438
166
439
168
440
Treaty with Russia for the Cession of Alaska March 30 1867
441
426
442
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