A Bill to regulate the disposition of an irregular fund in the custody of the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1867
Tag Archives: Freedmen
40 S. 567 (Introduced in Senate)
A Bill relating to the Freedmen’s Bureau and providing for its discontinuance, 1868
An Act relating to the Freedmen’s Bureau and providing for its Discontinuance
An Act relating to the Freedmen’s Bureau and providing for its Discontinuance, 1868
Message from the President of the United States, returning to the House bill No. 613, with his objections thereto.
House and Senate Documents: Message of President returning Freedmen’s Bureau bill, with objections, 1866
39 H.R. 85 (Reported in Senate)
An Act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida, 1866
39 H.R. 1183 (Referred to Committee Senate)
Amendatory of ‘An Act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida’, 1867
Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
House and Senate Documents: Annual report of Commissioner of General Land Office, 1866, 1866
U.S. Homestead Law
News article: on the Homestead Act, 1869
Public Lands of the Untied States: Pre-emption Laws Homestead Law Coal Lands Petroleum
News article: on the Homestead Act, 1867
An Act for the Disposal of the Public Lands for Homestead Actual Settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida
Law Text: An Act for the Disposal of the Public Lands for Homestead Actual Settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida, 1866
40 H.R. 122 (Referred to Committee House)
A Bill to facilitate the occupation of public lands by freedmen under the homestead act, 1867
40 H.R. 124 (Referred to Committee House)
A Bill to further extend and apply the provisions of the ‘Act for the disposal of the public lands for homestead actual settlement in the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Florida,’ approved June twenty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 1867
Message of the President of the United States, communicating a letter addressed to him from a committee of gentlemen representing the Freedman’s Aid Societies of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Cincinnati, in relation to the freedmen under the proclamation of emancipation.
Message of President communicating letter from committee representing Freedmen’s Aid Societies of Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, 1863
38 S. 227 (1863-1865)
A bill to establish a bureau of freedmen., 1864
38 S. 443 (1863-1865)
A Bill To incorporate the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company., 1865
38 H.R. 698 (1863-1865)
An Act To establish, in the War Department, a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees., 1865
Petition of citizens of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for an annual appropriation to remove to Africa all free Negroes and manumitted slaves.
Petition of citizens of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, for appropriation to remove to Africa all free negroes and manumitted enslaved persons, 1836
[Bill to secure equality before the law in courts of United States]
Bill to secure equality before the law in courts of United States, 1864
Emancipation in the District of Columbia. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 11th of January, transmitting the report and tabular statements of the commissioners appointed in relation to emancipated slaves in the District of Columbia.
Tabular statements of commissioner of emancipation in District of Columbia, 1854
Virginia. Inhabitants of Buckingham County — Free Negroes.
Free men. Memorial from Buckingham county, Virginia, 1831
Proclamation.
Proclamation of President to pardon those participating in rebellion, etc., p. 14 [enclosed with 1180 H.exdoc.1], 1863
Message from the President of the United States, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, with copies of correspondence in relation to the seizure of slaves on board the brigs “Encomium” and “Enterprise.”
Presidential message with correspondence on seizure of enslaved persons on board brigs Encomium and Enterprise, 1837
Letter of the Secretary of War, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 3d, instant, in reference to the sale into slavery of colored freemen captured by the rebels.
Letter on sale into slavery of colored freemen captured by rebels, 1862
Harriet Tubman
House and Senate Reports: On Harriet Tubman’s activities as a scout and a spy., 1874
The Freedmen’s Bureau
News article on the Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865