Federal Laws of the Reconstruction: Principal Congressional Acts and Resolutions, Presidential Proclamations, Speeches and Orders, and Other Legislative and Military Documents, 1862-1875

Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
Table I......Page 14
Table II......Page 15
Core Documents......Page 16
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 16. September 22,1862......Page 18
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 17. January 1, 1863......Page 20
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 11. December 8, 1863......Page 22
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 14. March 26, 1864......Page 24
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 18. July 8, 1864......Page 26
A Resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several states a propisition to amend the Constitution of the United States. No. 11. February 1, 1865.......Page 31
An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees. March 3, 1865......Page 32
An Act to incorporate the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. March 3, 1865......Page 34
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 37. May 29, 1865......Page 38
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 1. April 2, 1866......Page 41
An Act to protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication. April 9, 1866......Page 44
A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. No 48. June 16, 1866 (14th Amendment)......Page 49
An Act to continue in force and to amend "An Act to establish a Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees," and for other purposes. July 16, 1866.......Page 50
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 4. August 20, 1866......Page 56
An Act to provide for the more efficient goverment of the Rebel States. March 2, 1867......Page 61
An Act supplementary to an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient goverment of the Rebel States," passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration. March 23, 1867......Page 64
A Joint Resolution to furnish transportation of provisions to the destitute in the South. No. 17, March 29, 1867......Page 68
An Act supplementary to an Act Entitled "An Act to provide for the more efficient goverment of the Rebel States, " passed on March 2, 1867, and the Act supplementary thereto, passed March 23, 1867. July 19, 1867......Page 69
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 3. September 7, 1867.......Page 73
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 4. October 7, 1867......Page 76
An Act to amend the Act Passed March 23, 1867, entitled "An Act supplementary to 'An Act to provide for the more efficient goverment of the Rebel States,' passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate their restoration." March 11, 1868.......Page 77
An Act to admit the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, to representation in Congress. June 25, 1868......Page 78
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 6. July 4, 1868......Page 80
An Act to continue the Bureau for the Relief of Freedmen and Refugees, and for other purposes. July 6, 1868......Page 82
An Act relating to the Freedmen's Bureau and providing for its discontinuance. July 25, 1868.......Page 84
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 15. December 25, 1868.......Page 85
A Resolution proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. No. 14. February 27, 1869 (15th Amendment).......Page 86
An Act to enforce the Right of Citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes. May 31, 1870.......Page 87
An Act to amend an Act approved May 31, 1870, entitled "An Act to enforce the Rights of Citzens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other purposes." February 28, 1871.......Page 96
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 17. March 24, 1871.......Page 106
An Act to enforce the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other purposes. April 20, 1871......Page 107
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 2. May 3, 1871.......Page 112
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 3. October 12, 1871.......Page 113
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 4. October 17, 1871.......Page 114
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 6. November 3, 1871.......Page 116
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America. No. 7. November 10, 1871.......Page 117
An Act to protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights. March 1, 1875.......Page 119
Appendix A......Page 122
Appendix B......Page 143
Appendix C......Page 156
Appendix D......Page 166
Appendix E......Page 174
Appendix F......Page 182
Appendix G......Page 193
Bibliography......Page 202
Index......Page 204