Title:

Acts Passed by the Legislature, Republic of Liberia During the Sessions: 1877-78

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 Sessioin 1877-1878,
• Acts
  • Joint Resolution making appropriation for defraying the expensesof the Inauguration of the President and Vice President Elect
  • An Act to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to repeal an act authorizing specific duties on certain articles imported into the Repubic of Liberia, and the collection of the same passed by two-third vote January 22nd 1876 and regulating the payment of duties on Imports.
  • A resolution providing for laying out and running off a road from the Settlement of Fortsville to the Saint John's River in Grand Bassa County.
  • An Act establishing the Post Office, and a branch Custom House, at the second ward of Buchanan, commonly known as Lower Buchanan Grand Bassa County.
  • An Act repealing an act amendatory to an act entitled "an act relating to Divorces."
  • An Act providing, permitting and regulating Coastwise trade of foreigners in the County of Maryland, leeward of the Cavalla Riverin said County to San Pedro.
  • Resolution suspending the payment of Debentures, Dutiable obligation or Drafts upon Custom Houses.
  • An act defining the punishment of Contempts by Attorneys and Counsellors at law in the several courts of this Republic.
  • An act to amend an act entitled "an act to amend the several existing acts regulating the Militia."
  • Resolution for the special relief of Edward Berry.
  • An Act to reduce the amount of Paper currency now in circulation.
  • An Act amendatory and supplementary to an Act for the relief of certain Officers and Soldiers approved January 27th, 1863.
  • Resolution providing for the pay of Commissioners to be appointed by the President to accompany the Commissioners of the Liberia Exodus orother association of the United States of America.
  • An Act to repeal so much of an Act regulating the payment of Tonnage dues by vessels which may casually visit a single Port of Entry within the Republic of Liberia.
  • An Act Making appropriations for the Fiscal Year Commencing October 1st. A. D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventy seven, and ending September 30th. AD Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Eight.
• General Civil List
  • Montserrado County
  • Grand Bassa County
  • Sinou County
  • Maryland County
  • Joint Resolution removing John T. Richardson, Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas, Montserrado County, Republic of Liberia.