Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events: Embracing Political, Military, and Ecclesiastical Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical IndustryD. Appleton, 1869 |
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... Legislature passed a large number of bills chiefly devoted to local affairs ; also one to provide for the payment of the land - tax levied by Congress in August , 1861 ; another , requiring the State banks to resume payment on April 1 ...
... Legislature passed a large number of bills chiefly devoted to local affairs ; also one to provide for the payment of the land - tax levied by Congress in August , 1861 ; another , requiring the State banks to resume payment on April 1 ...
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... Legislature of the old Commonwealth of Virginia , are respectfully submitted , with the recommendation that they be adopted , and that a copy be transmitted to his ex- cellency President Johnson , with the accompanying report . W ...
... Legislature of the old Commonwealth of Virginia , are respectfully submitted , with the recommendation that they be adopted , and that a copy be transmitted to his ex- cellency President Johnson , with the accompanying report . W ...
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... Legislature at this session elected John A. Winston a Senator to Congress . He had been elected Governor of the State in 1855 and 1857 , and was one of the Douglass presidential electors in 1860. In the House , on December 1st , a bill ...
... Legislature at this session elected John A. Winston a Senator to Congress . He had been elected Governor of the State in 1855 and 1857 , and was one of the Douglass presidential electors in 1860. In the House , on December 1st , a bill ...
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... Legislature to enforce at all hazards their own terms of restoration . The measures they propose threaten to at once reverse our progress toward the establishment of that per- manent tranquillity which is so much desired by all . To do ...
... Legislature to enforce at all hazards their own terms of restoration . The measures they propose threaten to at once reverse our progress toward the establishment of that per- manent tranquillity which is so much desired by all . To do ...
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... Legislature after secession came before the Supreme Court of the State , and was decided on January 23 , 1867. An act , passed on Novem- ber 9 , 1861 , authorized executors to invest in bonds of the Confederate States or of Alabama ...
... Legislature after secession came before the Supreme Court of the State , and was decided on January 23 , 1867. An act , passed on Novem- ber 9 , 1861 , authorized executors to invest in bonds of the Confederate States or of Alabama ...
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Page 125 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Page 211 - States; and such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State and Territory in the United States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue. be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for...
Page 146 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled (two-thirds of both Houses concurring.) That the following article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 211 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 126 - Senate, who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Page 412 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 161 - All persons so drafted shall, from the date of their draft, stand discharged from the militia, and shall be subject to such laws and regulations for the government of the Army of the United States...
Page 222 - They enact thai all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every State and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as Is enjoyed by white citizens, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains, penalties, taxes, licenses and exactions of every kind, and to no other.
Page 197 - All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, arc citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States...
Page 193 - If any State shall exclude any of her adult male citizens from the elective franchise, or abridge that right, she shall forfeit her right to representation in the same proportion. The effect of this provision will be either to compel the States to grant universal suffrage or so to shear them of their power as to keep them forever in a hopeless minority in the national Government, both legislative and executive.