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  1. Overview: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  2. Full Record: United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  3. Committee:The Senate
  4. Session: 1865-12-05 12:00:00
  5. Event type: CREATE

United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866

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.

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The Senate of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress

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Session 4848: 1865-12-05 12:00:00

A House resolution to form the Joint Committee of Fifteen is received by the Senate

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Credentials of James L. Alcorn

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THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI,

To all to whom these presents shall come greeting:

Whereas it appears by the certificate of the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House of Representatives, on file in the office of the secretary of state, that James C. Alcorn was on Thursday, the 19th day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in a joint committee of both Houses of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, duly and constitutionally elected to the office of Senator in the Congress of the United States of America, for the term commencing March 5, 1865:

Now know ye, that in consequence thereof, and by virtue of the constitution and laws of this State, we do authorize and empower him the said James L. Alcorn to execute and fulfill the duties of that office according to law; and to have and to hold said office, with all the powers, privileges, and emoluments to the same of right appertaining for the term commencing March 5,1865.

In testimony whereof I, Benjamin G. Humphreys, Governor of the State aforesaid, have caused [L. S.] these letters to be made patent and the great seal of the State to be hereunto affixed.

Given under my hand at the city of Jackson, the 31st day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the sovereignty of the State of Mississippi the forty-seventh.

BENJAMIN G. HUMPHREYS.

By the Governor:

C. A. BROUGHER, Secretary of State.

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