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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

J. Francisco Chaves

(June 27, 1833 -- November 26, 1904) Jose Francisco Chaves was born in Padillas, Mexico (now new mexico). Chaves was a(n) studier of medicine, stock raiser, president of a territorial council, solider, superintendent, state historian, and American politician. Chaves was president of the Territorial council for eight sessions, district attorney for the 2nd judicial district (1875-1877), member and president of state constitutional convention (1889), State superintendent of public instruction (1903 - 1904), was appointed State historian of New Mexico in 1903, and was assassinated before he could start his term. He served as a major in the First New Mexico Infantry in the Union Army during the Civil War and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Jose was elected as a Republican to the 39th and 41st congresses (March 4, 1865 - March 3, 1867 and February 20, 1869 - March 3, 1871) and successfully contested the election of Charles P. Clever to the 40th Congress. He was not reelected in the 42nd Congress. [Source: 'biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=C000337]"

Member of New Mexico Territory Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display], New Mexico Territory Delegation - United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866 , New Mexico Territory Delegation - United States Fifteenth Amendment .

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