An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.
The Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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The first day of the first session of the Thirty-Ninth Congress
The State of New Jersey to John P. Stockton, esquire, greeting:
The senate and general assembly, reposing special trust and confidence in your integrity, prudence, and ability, have, at a joint meeting, appointed you, the said John P. Stockton, esq., to be senator of the United States, on the part of the State of New Jersey, for the term of six years from the fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the State of New Jersey. You are therefore, by these presents, commissioned to be senator of the United States on the part of the State of New Jersey. To have and to hold the same during the term limited by law.
In testimony whereof, the great seal of the State is hereunto affixed.
Witness Joel Parker, governor of the State of New Jersey, at Trenton, the fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-ninth.
JOEL PARKER
By the Governor
W. S. JOHNSON, Secretary of State.