NUMBER

71. Act for a National Bank. April 10, 1816

72. Treaty with Spain for the Floridas. Feb. 22, 1819

Missouri Compromise. 1820-21

·

73. Tallmadge's Amendment. Feb. 13, 1819

74. Taylor's Amendment. Jan. 26, 1820

75. Thomas's Amendment. Feb. 17, 1820

76. Report of the Conference Committee. March 1, 1820

1832.

87. Act for Enforcing the Tariff. March 2, 1833

77. Missouri Enabling Act. March 6, 1820

78. Constitution of Missouri. July 19, 1820

315

316

317

79. Resolution for the Admission of Missouri. March 2, 1821

80. Monroe's Message enunciating the Monroe Doctrine. Dec. 2, 1823 318

81. The Bank Controversy: Jackson's First Annual Message. Dec. 8,

1829.

1833.

93. Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Dec. 4, 1833

94. Act to Regulate the Deposits. June 23, 1836

95. Specie Circular. July 11, 1836

96. Treaty with Great Britain. Aug. 9, 1842

97. Joint Resolution for the Annexation of Texas.
98. Act for the Prosecution of the Mexican War.
99. Treaty with Great Britain. June 15, 1846

100. Independent Treasury Act. Aug. 6, 1846

101. Treaty with Mexico. Feb. 2, 1848

82. The Bank Controversy: Jackson's Second Annual Message.

Dec. 7, 1830

•

83. The Bank Controversy: Jackson's Third Annual Message. Dec. 6,

1831

84. Jackson's Bank Veto. July 10, 1832

85. South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification. Nov. 24, 1832

·

·

86. Jackson's Proclamation to the People of South Carolina. Dec. 10,-

March 1, 1845

May 13, 1846

333

341

Removal of the Deposits. September, 1833.

88. Jackson's Paper read to the Cabinet. Sept. 18, 1833

344

344

89. Taney's Instructions to the Collector at Philadelphia. Sept. 26, 1833 349

90. Taney to the Girard Bank. Sept. 26, 1833.

350

351

91. Taney to the Bank of the United States. Sept. 26, 1833

92. Contract between the Girard Bank and the United States. Sept. 28,

Compromise of 1850

102. Clay's Resolutions. Jan. 29, 1850

103. Extract from the Report of the Committee of Thirteen. May 8, 1850 386

104. Extract from the Utah Act. Sept. 9, 1850

387

323

324

329

NUMBER

105. Extract from the Texas and New Mexico Act. Sept. 9, 1850

106. Fugitive Slave Act. Sept. 18, 1850

.

107. Act abolishing the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia.

Sept. 20, 1850

110. Dixon's Proposed Amendment. Jan. 16, 1854

III. Sumner's Proposed Amendment. Jan. 17, 1854

PAGE

388

390

394

118. Proclamation declaring a Blockade of Southern Ports. April 19,

1861.

112. Extract from the Act to Organize the Territories of Nebraska

and Kansas. May 30, 1854

113. Dred Scott Decision. March 6, 1857

114. Lecompton Constitution. Nov. 7, 1857

115. South Carolina Ordinance of Secession. Dec. 20, 1860

116. Constitution of the Confederate States of America. March 11,

1861.

117. Call for 75,000 Volunteers. April 15, 1861

119. Act for a National Loan. July 17, 1861

120. Act authorizing the Employment of Volunteers. July 22, 1861

121. Resolution on the Nature and Object of the War. July 22, 1861

122. Act for calling out the Militia. July 29, 1861

123. Act to define and punish certain Conspiracies. July 31, 1861

124. Confiscation Act. Aug. 6, 1861.

125. Act authorizing the Seizure of Railroad and Telegraph Lines.

Jan. 31, 1862

Feb. 25, 1862

1862

126. Act authorizing the Issue of Legal Tender Notès.

127. Act for an Additional Article of War. March 13,

128. Joint Resolution on Compensated Emancipation.

129. Act abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia.

130. Abolition of Slavery in the Territories. June 19, 1862.

131. Oath of Office. July 2, 1862.

132. Confiscation Act. July 17, 1862

.

135. Act relating to Habeas Corpus. March 3, 1863

136. Resolution against Foreign Mediation. March 3, 1863

137. Proclamation of Amnesty.

138. National Bank Act. June 3, 1864

139. Proclamation regarding Reconstruction. July 8, 1864 .

140. Electoral Count. Feb. 8, 1865

442

482

487

NUMBER

141. Freedmen's Bureau. March 3, 1865

142. Freedom for Soldiers' Families. March 3, 1865

143. Proclamation appointing a Governor for North Carolina. May 29,

1865.

PAGE

488

490

March 2, 1867.

March 2, 1867

144. Thirteenth Amendment. Dec. 18, 1865

145. First Civil Rights Act. April 9, 1866

146. Restoration of Tennessee. July 24, 1866

499

147. Franchise in the District of Columbia. Jan. 8, 1867

148. Elective Franchise in the Territories. Jan. 31, 1867

149. First Reconstruction Act. March 2, 1867

150. Tenure of Office Act.

151. Command of the Army.

152. Second Reconstruction Act. March 23, 1867

153. Treaty with Russia for the

154. Third Reconstruction Act.

155. Articles of Impeachment.

156. Fourth Reconstruction Act. March 11, 1868

157. Act admitting Arkansas to Representation in Congress. June 22,

1868 .

158. Act admitting North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia,

Alabama, and Florida to Representation in Congress. June 25,

1868 .

159. Oath of Office. July 11, 1868

160. Joint Resolution excluding Electoral Votes of the Late Rebellious

States. July 20, 1868

161. Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. July 28, 1868.

162. Provisional Governments of Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi.

Feb. 18, 1869.

163. Act to strengthen the Public Credit. March 18, 1869

164. Submission of the Constitutions of Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas.

April 10, 1869.

165. Reconstruction of Georgia. Dec. 22, 1869

166. Admission of Virginia to Representation in Congress. Jan. 26,

1870.

167. Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. March 30, 1870.

168. Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. May 31, 1870

169. Act for refunding the National Debt. July 14, 1870

170. Act for the Restoration of Georgia. July 15, 1870

171. Supplementary Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. Feb. 28,

172. Act to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment. April 20, 1871.

173. Act removing Political Disabilities. May 22, 1872

NUMBER

174. Coinage Act. Feb. 12, 1873

175. Resumption of Specie Payments. Jan. 14, 1875

176. Second Civil Rights Act. March 1, 1875

177. Electoral Count Act. Jan. 29, 1877

178. Coinage of the Standard Silver Dollar. Feb. 28, 1878.

179. Civil Service Act. Jan. 16, 1883

180. Interstate Commerce Act. Feb. 4, 1887

181. Anti-Trust Act. July 2, 1890

182. Silver Purchase Act. July 14, 1890

183. Repeal of the Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

184. Recognition of the Independence of Cuba.

185. Declaration of War. April 25, 1898

600

602

609

Nov. 1, 1893

April 20, 1898.

186. Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands. July 7, 1898

187. Treaty of Paris. Dec. 10, 1898

188. Gold Standard Act. March 14, 1900

189. Treaty with Great Britain regarding an Isthmian Canal. Novem-
ber 18, 1901

190. Chinese Exclusion Act. April 29, 1902

191. Act for the Construction of an Isthmian Canal. June 28, 1902

192. Panama Canal Treaty. November 18, 1903 .

193. Naturalization Act. June 29, 1906

614

616

618

. 623

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630

635

636

644

647

647

195. Immigration Act. February 20, 1907

196. Act relating to Expatriation. March 2, 1907

197. Sixteenth Amendment. February 25, 1913

198. Seventeenth Amendment. May 31, 1913

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