Senate Bill, no. 129
Subtitle: a bill to provide for the employment of free Negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications and perform other labor connected with the defences of the country
By: Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate
Contributors: Confederate States of America. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Recruiting, enlistment; Law and legislation; Slaves; Employment; Freed persons; Impressment; Defenses; Legislation; History; Confederate States of America. Army
Other titles: Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Work titles: Bill to provide for the employment of free Negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications and perform other labor connected with the defences of the country
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Transcribed from: A bill to provide for the employment of free Negroes and slaves to work upon fortifications and perform other labor connected with the defences of the country. [Richmond : s.n., 1864] 6 p. ; 24 cm. Caption title. At head of title: (Senate Bill, No. 129.) Senate, Dec. 6, 1864.-Read first and second times, and placed on the calendar. December 12, 1864.-Amended, read a third time, and passed. December 13, 1864.-Reconsidered, amended, engrossed, read a third time, and passed. James H. Nash, Secretary. House of Representatives, Dec. 15,1864.-Read first and second times, referred to the Committee on Military affairs, and ordered to be printed.

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