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 House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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Papers on contested elections in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York are presented; E.D Holbrook from Idaho and Francis Thomas from Maryland enter the House; H. R. 1 is introduced and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
Resolved, That the certificates and all other papers relating to the election in the sixteenth congressional district of Pennsylvania be referred to the Committee of Elections, (when appointed,) with instructions to report at as early a day as practicable which of the claimants to the vacant seat from that district has prima facie the right thereto, reserving to the other party the privilege of contesting the ease on its merits without prejudice from lapse of time or want of notice.