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Laws of U.S. in relation to Navy and Marine Corps; to close of 2nd session of 26th Congress, together with acts and resolutions of Congress granting medals, swords, and votes of thanks, or having reference to special objects; also, private acts, for relief of individuals, alphabetically arranged; and table of appropriations and expenditures for naval service, from 1791 to 1840, both years inclusive, to which are prefixed Constitution of U.S., and synopsis of legislation of Congress respecting naval affairs during Revolutionary War, with appendix containing laws passed at 27th Congress

Laws of the U.S. in relation to the Navy and Marine Corps, 1843

Diplomatic code of U.S.A., embracing collection of treaties and conventions between U.S. and foreign powers, from year 1778-1827, with index to principal cases decided in courts of U.S. upon points connected with their foreign relations; and various official acts, papers, and useful information, for public ministers and consuls; to which is annexed, extracts from treaties and conventions, at present subsisting between Great Britain, France, Spain, etc., chiefly intended to elucidate policy pursued towards America, about period of late general pacification in Europe

Diplomatic code of U.S.A., embracing collection of treaties and conventions between U.S. and foreign powers, from year 1778-1827, with index to principal cases decided in courts of U.S. upon points connected with their foreign relations; and various official acts, papers, and useful information, for public ministers and consuls; to which is annexed, extracts from treaties and conventions, at present subsisting between Great Britain, France, Spain, etc., chiefly intended to elucidate policy pursued towards America, about period of late general pacification in Europe, 1827

37 H.R. 106 (1861-1863)

A bill to facilitate the suppression of the rebellion and prevent its return, and that the President be requested to declare free, and to direct all our generals and officers in command to order freedom to, all enslaved persons who shall leave their masters, or shall aid in quelling this rebellion., 1861

37 H.R. 374

A bill to render freedom national and slavery sectional. To secure freedom to all persons within the exclusive jurisdiction of the federal government., 1862

38 S. 99 (1863-1865)

A bill to secure equality before the law in the courts of the United States. That in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color., 1864

39 S. 55 (1865-1867)

A bill to maintain and enforce the freedom of the inhabitants of the United States., 1865

36 H.R. 64 (1859-1861)

A bill to disapprove and declare null and void all territorial acts and parts of acts heretofore passed by the legislative assembly of New Mexico which establish, protect, or legalize involuntary servitude or slavery within said Territory, except as punishment for crime upon due conviction., 1860

38 H.R. 512 (1863-1865)

A bill to repeal the fugitive slave act of 1850, and all acts and parts of acts for the rendition of fugitive enslaved persons, 1864

37 S. 331 (1861-1863)

A bill to relieve the national government of all obligation to support slavery and of all responsibility for it under the Constitution., 1862

39 S. 6 (1865-1867)

A bill supplying appropriate legislation to enforce the amendment to the Constitution prohibiting slavery., 1865

37 H.R. 634 (1861-1863)

An act giving aid to the State of Missouri for the purpose of securing the abolishment of slavery in said State., 1863

37 S. 78 (1861-1863)

A bill for the confiscation of the property of rebels, and giving freedom to the persons they hold in slavery., 1861

39 H.R. 63 (1865-1867)

A bill to double the pensions of those who were made pensioners by the casualties of the late war; to pay the damages done to loyal men by the rebel government and rebel raiders; and enforce the confiscation laws, so as to pay the same out of the confiscated property of the enemy., 1865

38 S. 123 (1863-1865)

A bill to abolish slavery throughout all the States and Territories of the United States., 1864

38 S. 128 (1863-1865)

A bill to provide for the renting of abandoned lands, tenements, and houses in insurrectionary States, and for the care and employment of persons therein set free by proclamation of the President., 1864