Title:

Acts Passed by the Legislature, Republic of Liberia During the Sessions: 1862-63, 1863-64, 1864-65, 1865-66

Collection:

Liberian Law Collection

Creator:

Legislature, Republic of Liberia

Date:

{1863, 1864, 1865, 1866}

Subject:

Liberian Law Collection

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49 300dpi JPEG page images

Notes:

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Publisher:

J. Adam Clarke, Printer

Publication Place:

Monrovia, Liberia

Format:

Book

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Acts and Resolutions

• Acts of the Legislature
  • An Act Amendatory to An Act Granting Careysburg and Marshall Respectively a Provisional Monthly and Probate Court; And Also Regulating appeals From Justices Courts.
  • A Resolution, Providing For the Payment Of Extra Services Rendered By The Volunteers At Roberts Port.
  • An Act For The Relief Of Certain Officers And Soldiers.
  • A Resolution Providing For The Purchase Of A Steam Vessel For Revenue Service And To Abrogate The Former Resolution For That Purpose.
  • An Act Pertaining To Bounty Land.
  • An Act Supplementary to "An Act Authorizing the Appointment of Surveyors For Each County, And Defining Their Duties".
  • An Act Authorizing The Appointment of Commissioners to Select A site in The Interior For The Seat of Government.
  • An Act Divorcing Rebecca Overton And Edward Overton.
  • Act Appropriating Forty Dollars, Annually, to William Morris, Of The City of Monrovia.
  • An Act Amendatory To An Act Chartering The Towns Ship Of Edina.
  • A Resolution Extending "Printing Street" To "Sheppard's Lake", in The County of Maryland.
  • A Resolution To Authorize The Issue Of An Additional Amount Of Engraved Bills.
  • A Resolution Providing For The Closing Up The Recaptured African Business.
  • An Act Confining And Restricting Foreign Vessels To Ports Of Entry.
  • An Act For The Reservation Of Public Lands.
  • An Act For The Relief Of Military Officers.
  • An Act Divorcing Jacob M. Moore J.B., and Ann M. Moore His Wife.
  • An Act To Divorce Thomas E. Dillon And Elizabeth Dillon.
  • A Resolution Ratifying The Treaty Of Friendship, Commerce And Navigation, Between The Republic Of Liberia And The Kingdom Of The Netherlands.
  • An Act Amendatory To An " Act To Regulate The Militia".
  • An Act Supplementary to an Creating Post Offices And Post masters in Each County Of This Republic.
  • An Act For The Relief Of James McCray.
  • A Resolution Restoring John Houston Of Clay Ashland To Citizenship.
  • An Act Chartering The Union Mechanic Association Of Monrovia.
  • An Act Authorizing The President to Adopt Measures For Entering Into Friendly Relations And Holding Regular Official Intercourse with The Native Tribes in the Different Counties.
  • An Act Inducing Citizens Of Other Parts Of Liberia To Emigrate To The Counties Of Maryland And Sinoe In Liberia.
  • An Act Authorizing The president To Employ The Vessels Or Boats Of Citizens Of Liberia In This Service, And Commission Officers For The Same.
  • Resolution Ratifying A Treaty Of "Amity, Command Navigation" Between the Republic Of Liberia, And His majesty the King of Sweden And Norway.
  • A Resolution Authorizing and Providing For Furniture For The President's Mansion.
  • A Resolution Providing For , And Authorizing The Repairs Of The "Liberia Schooner Quail"
  • An Act Repealing An Act, Entitled An Act Amendatory to an Act Regulating The Militia.
  • Resolution Suspending For Five Years, An Act Entitled An Act Providing For A National Fair.
  • An Act To Authorize the Secretary Of The Treasury to Effect a Loan Of Currency now in Circulation To The Seventy Five Thousand Dollars.
  • An Act Authorizing The President to Settle Two Hundred Recaptive Africans In Maryland County.
  • An Act Amendatory To "An Act Authorizing The Establishment Of A Uniform Currency/;.
  • A Resolution Authorizing The President To Reimburse, J. T. Gibson Superintendent Of Maryland County, For Movies Expended In Purchasing Stationery For The Government Of The Republic.
  • A Resolution Authorizing The Republic Of Liberia To Bear All Expenses In Connection With The Burial Of Senator St. James Gilchrist.
  • An Act Authorizing The President To Adopt Measures To Encourage Emigration To Liberia From The West India Islands.
  • An Act Restoring Gilbert Austin To Citizenship.
  • An Act Chartering The Union Agricultural Enterprise Company On The St. Paul's River.
  • An Act Supplementary To An Act Entitled An Act To Encourage Citizens Of Other Parts Of Liberia To Settle In Maryland And Sinoe County.
  • An Act Amendatory To An Entitled An Act Regulating Tax Licenses.
  • Resolution Providing For The Repairs Of The Senate Chamber.
  • An Act For The Relief Of France Davis,
  • An Act Restoring Laurina Goode To The Rights &c, Of Citizenship.
  • An Act Providing For The Funding Of The Floating Debt Of The Republic Of Liberia, And Authorizing The Issue Of Treasury Notes Of The Republic, And The Redemption of The Same.
  • Resolution Fixing the Adjournment Of The Present Session Of The Legislature.
  • An Act Making An Appropriation For The Building Of A Revenue Cutter At Harper, Maryland County.
  • An Act To Promote the progress of The Arts, manufactures, Agriculture And Commerce.
  • An Act to Authorize The Secretary Of The Treasury To Destroy By Burning, All The Checks And The Defaced, And Otherwise Damaged Currency, Now In The Treasury Department, And Any Other Of That Description That May In Future Be Received.
  • A Resolution For The Relief Of The Several Counties.
  • Resolution For The Survey Of The Line Between Clay- Ashland And Virginia.
  • An Act To Incorporate the Carysburg Live - Stock Company.
  • An Act Providing For The Erection of Light Houses In The Counties Of Grand Bassa And Sinou.
  • A Resolution For The Relief Of The Government.
  • An Act To Amend An Act Entitled An Act Amendatory To An Act To Regulate the Militia.
  • A Memorial To The President To Have Adjusted The Public Accounts.
  • An Act Amendatory To An Act Entitled An Act Confining And Restricting Foreign Vessels To "Ports Of Entry".
  • An Act To Amend An Act Entitled An Act Regulating The Payment Of Export Duties And The Deposit Of The Same In The Several Branches Of the Treasury.
  • An Act Destroying By Burning One Half Of The Demand Currency Notes Made Payable In Gold Or Silver Coin By Treasurer Of Liberia; And All Checks, Treasury Script And Other Papers Showing Government Indebtedness That Have Been Redeemed by Government Indebtedness That Have Benn Redeemed By Government Up To December 31, 19865.
  • An Act To Prevent The Further Issue Of Treasury Notes As Are Being now Issued Under The Act Providing For The Funding Of The Floating Debt Of The Republic Of Liberia, And Authorizing The Issue Of Treasury Notes Of The Republic And For The Redemption Of The Same, Approved January 2, 1864; And For The Redemption Of Such Notes Already Issued.
  • An Act To Change The Venue From One County To An Other, In Civil Cases.
  • An Act Supplementary to an Act To [Amend?] An Act Regulating Taxes and Licenses.
  • An Act Authorizing The Secretary of The Treasury To Pay [Cer?] United Sates Of America.
  • An Act to Amend An Act To Raise The Revenue And To encourage Farmers, Liberia Statutes, Vol. 2nd Page 32 and 33.
  • An Act Authorizing The President To Lay An Interdict On All The Trading Points In The County Of Grand Bassam That Are Under The Control Of Prince Boyer Of The Trade Town Country.
  • A Resolution Equalizing The Distribution Of Emigrants Who May Hereafter Be sent Into Liberia.
  • An Act To Extend Murrey's Street, Maryland County, In The Township Of West Harper, To Fifty Eight Feet Instead of Forty.
  • A Resolution For The Relief Of The Citizens Of Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount.
  • A Resolution Restoring Augustas W. Johnson And Rufus Gibbs To The Rights And Privileges Or Citizenship.
  • A Resolution Fixing The Day Of Adjournment Of The Present Session Of The Legislature.