Title:

Acts Passed by the Legislature, Republic of Liberia During the Sessions: 1884-85

Collection:

Liberian Law Collection

Creator:

Legislature, Republic of Liberia

Subject:

Liberian Law Collection

Extent:

14 300dpi JPEG page images

Publisher:

Herald Office, J.C. Minor

Publication Place:

Moravia, Liberia

Format:

Book

Rights:

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Acts and Resolutions

• Acts. Passed by the Second Session of the Nineteenth Legilsature of the Republic of Liberia 1884-5
• Acts
  • An Act Restoring sundry persons to the rights and privileges of citizenship.
  • An Act repealing the act entitled an act for the relief of Government, passed and approved January 11th, 1884, and providing for the payment of Bonds issued under the act of the Legislature and approved January 12th, 1880.
  • An Act amendatory to the fifth section of an act for the relief of Government approved January 12, 1880.
  • A Resolution authorizing a discount of 5 per cent to all importers of Liquor into this Republic
  • An Act amendatory to the ninth Section of an act to regulate the Militia, and defining the duties of the General.
  • An Act in respect to certain officers, reports.
  • An Act supplementary to an act amendatory to an act, entitled an act creating an Interior Department
  • Joint Resolution authorizing the survey of the settlement of Brewerville.
  • An act fixing the salary of the Collector of Customs of the Port of Niffon, in Sinou County, in the Republic of Liberia, under act of the Legislature approved Jany. 18th 1884
  • An Act for the encouragement of Agriculture, and authorizing and requesting the President to enter into, and conclude a commercial Treaty with the Government of the United States of America to mutually admit free of duty certain articles of merchandise as the agricultural interest of Liberia suffers from the heavy duties by the Tariff laws of the United States upon the Liberian, products imported into that country. And as it is our belief that the United States Government, would admit into her ports certain articles of Liberian products free of duties, if the Liberian Government would also admit free of duties certain merchandise, the products of the United States.
  • An Act Legitimizing Daniel Warner of the County of Montserrado, an illegitimate son of John J. Woodson.
  • An Act Legitimizing Josiah Abner Prosser of the County of Grand Bassa, an illegitimate son of William Henry Prosser.
  • An Act restoring sundry persons to citizenship
  • An Act legitimizing George Henry Ash illegitimate son of Henry Ash, and adopted son of Isaac James Ash and Mary Catherine ash, as legal heir and son of the aforesaid Isaac James Ash, and Mary Catherine Ash of the settlement of Clay-Ashland and County of Montserrado.
  • Joint Resolution authorizinig His Excellency the Presiden to contract with Messrs H. Muller and Co.,of ROtterdam,Holland, for the purchase of a Steam Gunboat
  • An Act establishing an additional port of Entry and Delivery at the South West side of the mouth of the Cavally River in the County of Maryland.
  • A Resolution reviving and amending the Charter of the City of Greenville in the County of Sinou.
  • Joint Resolution to incorporate a Female Institution in the Settlement of Brewerville, under the name and style of the "Garnet Memorial School."
  • A joint resolution restoring Iena Morris of the City of Greenville in the County of Sinon to the rights and privileges of other good citizens.
  • An Act to incorporate the M.E. Church of Greenville, Sinou Co.
  • A Joint Resolution reimbursing the heirs of D. F. Smith and F. M. McGill, and G. R. McGill, for property lost by the burning of the house owned by the heirs of D. F. Smith, by the insurgents during the so-called rebellion in the County of Grand Bassa in the month of August, 1884.