| John Savage - Presidents - 1866 - 610 pages
...enacted tn/ the Senate and Home of Eepresentatwes of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and not...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... | |
| United States. Congress. House - United States - 1866 - 852 pages
...may not be declared unconstitutional by courts of competent jurisdiction. By that act it is enacted " that all persons born in the United States, and not...involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State... | |
| Edward McPherson - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1866 - 164 pages
...both Houses of Congress. AHDREW JOHNSON-. WASHINGTON, DC, March 27, 1866. Copy of the Bill Vetoed. AN ACT to protect all persons in the United States...to any foreign power, excluding Indians, not taxed, aro hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color,... | |
| 1866 - 278 pages
...to be so regarded." CIVIL EIGHTS BILL. AS ADOPTED BY CONGRESS, MABOH, 1866. § 1. That all persons in the United States, and not subject to any foreign...to any previous condition of Slavery or involuntary service, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall... | |
| Slavery - 1866 - 288 pages
...to be so regarded." CIVIL EIGHTS BILL, AS ADOPTED BY CONOEES8, MARCH, 1866. § 1. That all persons in the United States, and not subject to any foreign...to any previous condition of Slavery or involuntary service, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall... | |
| British and foreign freed-men's aid society - 1866 - 586 pages
...Mr. Johnson endeavoured to perpctrate upon freedom by his presidential vcto. " Be it Unacted, t'c., That all persons born in the United States, and not...declared to be citizens of the United States ; and snch citizens of every race and colour, witbout regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary... | |
| W. Divoll - Citizenship - 1866 - 158 pages
...VINDICATION. 1. All persons bom in the United States,, and not subject to anyforeign power, excluding Indiana not taxed, are hereby declared. to be citizens of...without regard to any previous condition of slavery orinvoluntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof +he party shall have been duly convicted,... | |
| Lillian Foster - Presidents - 1866 - 322 pages
...in which it originated) with my objections to its becoming a law. By the first section of the bill, all persons born in the United States, and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States. This provision comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 826 pages
...inhabitants. And in lien thereof to insert " and such citizens ; " so as to make the section read : That all persons born in the United States and not...involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, etc. The next amendment... | |
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