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 Senate is notified that S. 1 had been presented to the President of the United States on December 26, 1866
Mr. Howe reported from the committee that they presented to the President of the United States, on the 26th of December last, the following enrolled bills:
S. 1. An act to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia.