Title:

Acts Passed by the Legislature, Republic of Liberia During the Sessions: 1873-74

Collection:

Liberian Law Collection

Creator:

Legislature, Republic of Liberia

Subject:

Liberian Law Collection

Extent:

28 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 1873-1874.
• Acts.
  • Resolution Making an Appropriation for the Inauguration of the President and Vice President, Elected, of the Republic of Liberia.
  • An Act Authorizing the Survey and Construction of a Cross-Street on Public Farm Hill, Maryland County.
  • An Act Fixing the Salary of Members and Officers of the Legislature.
  • A Resolution Authorizing the Secretary of State to Accept the Invitation of the United States Government to Co-Operate in the International Exhibition to be held in the City of Philadelphia, A. D. 1876, and the Appointment of Commissioners to the same.
  • Whereas it is of the Highest Importance That the Most Friendly Relations be Stablished Between the Republic of Liberia and the Native Chieftains in the Interior of the Republic of Liberia Proper, as Far Back as Two Hundred Miles at Least From the Sea-Board;-and whereas...
  • A Resolution Appropriating Nine Thousand one, Hundred Sixty Eight Dollars, and Thirteen Cents, and Directing the Payment of the Same to the Government of the United States, as the Interest Due That Government on an Amount for Arms and Munition of War ; and Also for the Appointment of a Commissioner to Proceed Direct to Sierra Leone to Adjust and Make A final Settlement of the Indemnity Bonds Held by the Administrator of the British African Settlements at Sierra Leone, in Favor of British Subjects.
  • A Resolution Providing for the Revisal, Compiling and Printing of Six Hundred Copies of the Revised Statutes of Liberia.
  • Resolution Authorizing the Burning of Useless Moneys.
  • An Act to Incorporate the Union Missionary Society of the County of Grand Bassa.
  • Resolution Providing One Hundred Acress of Public Lands to S. S. Herring, Intorducer of the Palm Kernel Trade, as a Premium.
  • Resolution Restoring Winder A. Harris of the Town of Edina, Grand Bassa County, to Citizenship.
  • Resolution Restoring William H. Hill of New Georgia, to Military Franchise.
  • An Act Making Appropriation for the Fiscal Year Commencing the First Day of October, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Three, and Ending the Thirtieth Day of September, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Four.
  • Resolution Authorizing the President to Pay the Members and Officers of the Legislature the Number of Lay Days as Interlined in the Appropriation Bill.
  • An Act to Change the Venue From one County to Another, in Civil Cases.
  • A Resolution [Equalizing] the Distribution of Emigrants Who May Hereafter be Sent Into Liberia.
  • An Act to Extand Murrey's Street, Maryland County, in the Township of West Harper, to Fifty Eight Feet Instead of Forty.
  • An Act Refunding Certain Moneys to Citizens of This Republic.
  • A Resolution Restoring Augustus W. Johson and [R]ufus Gibbs to the Rights and Privileges of Citizenship.
  • A Resolution Fixing the Day of Ajournment of the Present Session of the Legislature.