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United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65
An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
The House of Representatives
The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Eighth Session of Congress
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Session 10989: 1864-12-08 00:00:00
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Resolutions to Refer Parts of President's Annual Message
That so much of the annual message of the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress at the present session, together with the accompanying documents, as relates to the finances, to the public debt, to the deficiencies in the revenues of the Post Office Department, to the receipts into the Treasury, to the public expenditures, to the national and State banking institutions and a uniform currency, to provision for increasing the revenue by additional taxation, to the regulation of imposts fixed by the reciprocity treaty between Great Britain and the United States, of 5th June, 1854, to the issuing of bonds and their exemption from taxation and from seizure for debt, and for providing the ways and means for the support of the Government, be referred to the Committee of Ways and Means.
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Resolved, That so much of said message and accompanying documents, as relates to the Constitution and laws of the United States, to [prize] on our inland waters, and to judicial proceedings, be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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Resolved, That so much of said message and accompanying documents as relates to the duty of the United States to guaranty a republican form of government to the States in which the governments recognized by the United States have been abrogated or overthrown be referred to the Committee on the Rebellious States.
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- Resolutions to Refer Parts of President's Annual Message (introduced on 1864-12-08 00:00:00 - CREATE - e898841) [This document]
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- None (introduced on 1864-12-08 00:00:00 - ADOPT_PROPOSAL - e412563) [view current proposal at this moment]