The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-04-05

| March 81, 1868. An act TO incorporate
the institution Howard University IN
the District of Columbia for the educa-
ton of colored youth.
January 2Sth, 1864. An act was
passed repeating the infamous Demo
cratic fugitive slave law of 1850, and all
other acts and parts of acts for the rem
dition of fugitive slaves; also, an act to
incorporate the Young Mems Christian
Association OF the city of Washington,
ID. c.
January 9th, 1865. The Thirteenth
Amendment TO the Constitution was
passed 10y Congress forever abolshing
slavery in the United States.
March 81, 1865 An act was passed
! TO establish Bureau for the relief of
destitute freedmen and refugees also,
a resolution 10 encourage the employ
mont, by Government, of disabled and
| honorably discharged soldiers.
February GOTH 1866 A Joint resolu-
! ton passed TO encourage and facilitate
! Geographic communication between the
Western and Eastern continents.
April 9th, 1866. An act to protect all
persons in the United States in their
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their vindication.
Nay Sd, 1866. joint resolution by
Congress, expressive of the gratitude of
the nation TO the officers, soldiers and
seomen of the United States.
June 18th, 1866. An act to facilitate
commercial, postal, and military COM
munication among the several States.
June 10th, 1866. The Fourteenth
Amendment was passed by Congress,
declaring that all persons born or natu-
rallied in the United States, are citizens,
protecting their civil rights, declaring
that the validity of the public debt, in
Guiding debts incurred for the payment
Of pensions and bounties, for services
for suppressing Instruction or rebellion,
shall not be questioned, and prohibiting
the United States or any State from as
suming or paying any rebel debt, or for
the loss or emancipation Of any slave,
and declaring all such debts, obligations
and claims, to be illegal and void.
July 25th, 1866. An act further TO
provide for the safety of the lives Of
passengers on board Of vessels propelled
by steam also, an act toincorporate the
National Soldiers and Sailors Orphans
Home.
July 9th, 1866. An act to incor-
porate the Washington Temperance So
ciety of the city Of Washington, D. c.
also an act to aid in the construction of
a railroad and telegraph line from the
States of Missouri and Arkansas to the
Pacific coast.
July 2Sth 1866. An act to provide
transportation for discharged soldiers
to whom artificial limbs may be fur.
nished by the Government; also, an act
to authorize the use of the Metric sys-
TEN for weights and measures.
January oath, 1867. An act was
passed declaring that there shall be no
denial Of the elective franchise in any
of the Territories of the United States,
TO any citizen thereof on account of
race, color, or previous condition Of
servitude.
February Doth, 1867. a joint resolu
ton authorizing the employment of a
public vessel for the transportation Of
provisions to Charleston, Savannah and
Mobile for the destitute and suffering
people.
March 2d, 1867. An act to declare
valid and conclusive all acts, proclama-
tons and orders of the President Of the !
United States, or acts done by his au-
thority, or approval after the 4th Of |
March, 1851, and before July lst, 1866, |
in the suppression Of the late rebellion |
against the United States also, an act |
to establish a Department OF Educa-
ton also, an act to establish uniform
system Of bankruptcy throughout the |
United States; also, to abolish and for |
ever prohibit the system of peonage in |
the Territory of New Mexico and other |
parts Of the United States and a reso- |
luton concerning the right of way for |
the survey and construction of an inter |
oceanic ship canal across the isthmus of |
Daren.
March odd 1867. A supplemental
act providing for the more efficient gov
eminent Of the rebel States, and to
facilitate their restoration.
March 30th, 1867. a resolution to
furnish relief Tor the destitute people |
in the Southern and Southwestern
States.
July Goth, 1s6S. An act imposing
taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco.
July 2jth, 1865. An act relating to
the Freedmens Bureau and providing
for It's discontinuance.
July 9th, 1865. An act to protect
the rights Of naturalized American citi-
zens in foreign countries; also, an act to
protect the rights of actual settlers
upon the public lands of the United
States.
February 9th, 1869. The Fifteenth
passed Congress, securing
the right to vote to colored men.
March let, 1869. An act to restrict
and regulate the ranking privilege was
passed.
Ma 31st, 1870. An act was passed to
enforce the right of the citizens of the
United States 10 vote in the several
States, and providing penalties for
bribing, threats, interference with, or
OF, persons who are entitled
to vote.
July l4th, 1870. A joint resolution
the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs to appoint guardians and trustees
for minor Indian children who may be
entitled to pensions or bounties under
existing laws.
January 10Th, 1871. An act to au-
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