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

Proclamation declaring a Blockade of Southern Ports. April 19,

3. Act for the Collection of Duties. July 13, 1861

Act for a National Loan. July 17, 1861

5. Act authorizing the Employment of Volunteers.

6. Resolution on the Nature and Object of the War.

7. Indemnity for State War Expenses. July 27, 1861

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

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

10. Supplementary National Loan Act. August 5, 1861

II. Confiscation Act. August 6, 1861

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

January 31, 1862

13. Act prohibiting the Coolie Trade.

February 19, 1862

14. Act authorizing the Issue of Legal Tender Notes. February 25,

15. Act for an Additional Article of War. March 13, 1862

16. Act authorizing further Purchase of Coin. March 17, 1862

- 17. Joint Resolution on Compensated Emancipation. April 10, 1862.

-18. Act abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia. April 16, 1862

-19. Collection of Direct Taxes in Insurrectionary States.

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

21. Anti-Polygamy Act. July 1, 1862

22. Oath of Office. July 2, 1862 .

23. Election of Representatives by Districts. July 14, 1862

24. Confiscation Act. July 17, 1862

25. Act to authorize Payments in Stamps. July 17, 1862

26. Militia Act. July 17, 1862

27. Act admitting West Virginia. December 31, 1862

28. Emancipation Proclamation. January 1, 1863

48. Thirteenth Amendment.

29. Act to punish Correspondence with Rebels. February 25, 1863

30. Act to provide Ways and Means for the Support of the Govern-

ment. March 3, 1863

31. Enrolment Act. March 3, 1863

32. Act relating to Habeas Corpus.

33. Act for the Collection of Abandoned Property. March 3, 1863

34. Resolution against Foreign Mediation. March 3, 1863

35. Proclamation of Amnesty. December 8, 1863

36. Supplementary Enrolment Act. February 24, 1864

37. National Bank Act. June 3, 1864

38. Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. June 28, 1864

39. Intercourse with Insurrectionary States. July 2, 1864

40. Enrolment Act. July 4, 1864

41. Act to encourage Immigration. July 4, 1864

42. Proclamation regarding Reconstruction. July 8, 1864

43. Electoral Count. February 8, 1865

44. Freedmen's Bureau. March 3, 1865

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

46. Proclamation of Amnesty. May 29, 1865

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

December 18, 1865

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49. Proclamation declaring the Insurrection at an End. April 2, 1866 139

50. First Civil Rights Act. April 9, 1866

51. Supplementary Freedmen's Bureau Act. July 16, 1866

52. Restoration of Tennessee. July 24, 1866

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53. Election of Senators. July 25, 1866

54. Franchise in the District of Columbia.

55. Elective Franchise in the Territories.

56. First Reconstruction Act. March 2, 1867

57. Tenure of Office Act. March 2, 1867

58. Act of Indemnity. March 2, 1867

59. Command of the Army.

60. Abolition of Peonage.

61. Payments to Disloyal Persons. March 2, 1867

62. Second Reconstruction Act. March 23, 1867

63. Treaty with Russia for the Cession of Alaska. March 30, 1867

64. Third Reconstruction Act. July 19, 1867

65. Act suspending Reduction

66. Articles of Impeachment.

67. Fourth Reconstruction Act.

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

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

Alabama, and Florida to Representation in Congress. June

70. Eight-hour Law. June 25, 1868

71. Oath of Office. July 11, 1868

72. Joint Resolution excluding Electoral Votes of the Late Rebellious

States. July 20, 1868

73. Rights of American Citizens in Foreign States. July 27, 1868

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

75. Proclamation granting Full Amnesty. December 25, 1868

76. Provisional Governments of Virginia, Texas, and Mississippi. Feb-

77. Extradition Act. March 3, 1869

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

79. Equal Rights in the District of Columbia. March 18, 1869

80. Amended Tenure of Office Act. April 5, 1869

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

82. Reconstruction of Georgia. December 22, 1869

83. Admission of Virginia to Representation in Congress. January

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

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

86. Redemption and Bank Note Act. July 12, 1870

87. Naturalization Act. July 14, 1870

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

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

90. San Domingo Commissioners. January 12, 1871 .

91. Supplementary Act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment. February

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

93. Treaty of Washington. May 8, 1871

94. Act removing Political Disabilities. May 22, 1872

95. Supplementary Federal Election Law. June 10, 1872

96. Coinage Act. February 12, 1873

97. Act regarding United States Notes and National Bank Currency.

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98. Resumption of Specie Payments. January 14, 1875

99. Civil Rights Act. March 1, 1875 .

100. Joint Resolution for the Issue of Silver Coin. July 22, 1876

Electoral Count Act. January 29, 1877

102. Coinage of the Standard Silver Dollar. February 28, 1878

103. Act forbidding the further Retirement of Legal Tender Notes.

104. Use of the Army at the Polls. May 4, 1880

106. Anti-Polygamy Act. March 22, 1882.

107. Act restricting Chinese Immigration. May 6, 1882

108. National Bank Circulation, Bonds, and Gold Certificates. July

109. Civil Service Act.

110. Contract Labor Act.

January 16, 1883

February 26, 1885

Presidential Succession Act. January 19, 1886

Act prohibiting Special Laws in the Territories. July 30, 1886

113. Electoral Count Act. February 3, 1887

114. Interstate Commerce Act. February 4, 1887

115. Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians.

116. Ownership of Real Estate in the Territories.

117. Retirement of the Trade Dollar. March 3, 1887

118. Anti-Polygamy Act. March 3, 1887

119. Chinese Exclusion Act. September 13, 1888

Anti-Trust Act. July 2, 1890

Silver Purchase Act. July 14, 1890

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122. "Original Package" Act. August 8, 1890

123. Anti-Lottery Act. September 18, 1890

124. Immigration and Contract Labor. March 3, 1891

125. Repeal of the Silver Purchase Act of 1890.

126. President Cleveland's Venezuelan Message.

127. Alien Ownership of Real Estate in the Territories.

128. Recognition of the Independence of Cuba. April 20, 1898

129. Declaration of War. April 25, 1898

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

131. Treaty of Paris. December 10, 1898

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