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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 16 STAT. · April 1, 1869 · Chapter VI

Chapter VI. in Addition to an Act entitled “An Act to relieve from legal and political Disabilities certain Persons engaged in the late Rebellion,” approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight

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CHAP. VI.— An Act in Addition to an Act entitled “An Act to relieve from legal and political Disabilities certain Persons engaged in the late Rebellion,” approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.April 1, 1869. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* (two thirds of each house concurring therein,) That all legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenthLegal, &c. disabilities imposed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution removed from persons named in act.1868, ch. 284.Vol. xv. p. 403. amendment of the Constitution of the United States by reason of participation in the late rebellion be, and they hereby are, removed from the persons named in an act approved July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, entitled “An act to relieve from legal and political disabilities certain persons engaged in the late rebellion.
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