Title:

Acts Passed by the Legislature, Republic of Liberia During the Sessions: 1872-73

Collection:

Liberian Law Collection

Creator:

Legislature, Republic of Liberia

Subject:

Liberian Law Collection

Extent:

24 300dpi JPEG page images

Publisher:

Herald Office, J.C. Minor

Publication Place:

Moravia, Liberia

Format:

Book

Rights:

The content in the Cornell University Law Library Liberian Law Collection is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of date of publication as well as status under Liberian Law, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections. Items in the collection were digitized in two phases, beginning in 2005 and completed in 2014, from the Cornell University Law Library Liberian Law Collection. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Law Library at lawref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.

Acts and Resolutions

• Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia, During the Session of 1872-1873.
• Acts.
  • An Act Amendatory and Supplementary to an Act Entitled an Act, Establishing the Treasury Department.
  • An Act Making Provision for the Payment of Certain Claims Due by Government.
  • An Act Regulating the Pay of the President and Vice President of the Republic of Liberia, or Other Officers, in Case of the Absence or Disability of the President.
  • An Act Amendatory to an Act, Entitled "An Act Relating to Divorces."
  • An Act Authorizing the Appointment of Shipping Ma[s]ters at the Several Ports of Entry in Liberia.
  • An Act Repealing the Charter of the City of Buchan an, Grand Bassa County.
  • An Act Regulating the Payment [on] Tonnage Dues by Vessels Which May Casually Visit a Single Port of Entry Within the Republic of Liberia.
  • An Act Encouraging Agriculture Throughout the Republic of Liberia.
  • An Act Supplementary to the Act Entitled an Act, Authorizing Specific Duties-Approved Feby. 22nd. 1870.
  • An Act Regulating the Working of Prisoners.
  • An [A]ct Organizing a Board of Trade.
  • An Act to Incorporate Trinity Church in Monrovia.
  • Resolution Authorizing the Disposal of the Remainder of the Consignment of Merchandise to This Government Per Brig "Town of Liverpool."
  • An Act Altering and Amending an Act Entitled an Act, "Incorporating the Palm Grove Cementary of Monrovia."
  • Joint Resolution Authorizing the Printing of Two Hundred (200) Copies of the Secretry of the Treasury Report for the Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30th. 1872.
  • An Act Authorizing the President Personally to Visit Great Britain, in Order Finally to Adjust and Make Settlement of All Matters Pertaining to the National Loan ; to Secure the Services of a Geologist and Mineralogist to Aid in the Development of the Resources of [t]he Country ; to Pay All Legal Foreign Debts of the Republic, etc., etc.
  • Resolution Authorizing the President to Make an Official Visit Abroad.
  • An Act Fixing the Day of Adjournment of the Present Session of The Legislature.
• Private Bills.
  • An Act for the Relief of George W. Smith.
  • Resolution Authorizing the President to Grand Valid Deeds in Lie of Certain Invalid Deeds Executed by D.R. Fletcher, of Maryland County.
  • An Act Divereing Isaac C. Dickinson and Sarah E. Dickinson, Isaac Ostertag and Louisa Ostertag, Richard Kennedy and Patsey E. Kennedy... - Passed by a two-Third Vote of the Legislature.
  • Resolution Granting L.K. Crocker, of Little Bassa, Three Hundred Acres of Land.
  • Resolution for the Relief od Alexander Stubblefield, of Montserrado County.
  • A Resolution Restoring Reuben Whitemore and Robert Hines, of Sinon County, to Citizenship.
  • Resolution Granting the Citizens of Careysburg Twenty Five Muskets of Riflets, and Ammunition.
  • A Resolution Providing for the Erection of a Monument to the Memory of Rev. S. J. Mills.
  • A Resolution for the Relief of John Marshall.