Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1926

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Macmillan, 1926 - 713 pages

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Contents

Proclamation regarding Reconstruction July 8 1864
482
March 2 1867
505
Treaty with Russia for
511
March 23 1868
531
Provisional Governments of Virginia Texas and Mississippi
538
Admission of Virginia to Representation in Congress Jan
544
Act for the Restoration of Georgia July 15 1870
553
Act to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment April 20 1871
560
Coinage Act Feb 12 1873
565
Resumption of Specie Payments Jan 14 1875
567
Second Civil Rights Act March 1 1875
568
Electoral Count Act Jan 29 1877
571
Coinage of the Standard Silver Dollar Feb 28 1878
573
Civil Service Act Jan 16 1883
577
Interstate Commerce Act Feb 4 1887
583
AntiTrust Act July 2 1890
591
Silver Purchase Act July 14 1890
593
Repeal of the Silver Purchase Act of 1890
595
Recognition of the Independence of Cuba
597
Declaration of War April 25 1898
598
Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands July 7 1898
600
Treaty of Paris Feb 10 1763
602
Treaty of Paris Dec 10 1898
605
Gold Standard Act March 14 1900
609
Act for the Construction of an Isthmian Canal June 28 1902
618
Panama Canal Treaty November 18 1903
623
Act relating to Expatriation March 2 1907
644
Sixteenth Amendment February 25 1913
647
Clayton AntiTrust Act October 15 1914
663
Declaration of War against Germany April 6 1917
665
Espionage Act June 15 1917
666
The Fourteen Points 205 Railway Control Act January 8 1918
670
March 21 1918
673
Eighteenth Amendment January 29 1919
680
Transportation Act February 28 1920
681
Nineteenth Amendment August 26 1920
686
Budget Act June 10 1921
687
Treaty of Peace with Germany August 25 1921
690
FourPower Pacific Treaty December 13 1921
692
War Debt Commission February 9 1922
694
Immigration Act May 26 1924
696
Indian Citizenship June 2 1924
701
109
705
666
707
Sugar Act April 5 1764
711
117
712
Third Navigation Act 1672
713
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Page 207 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more States, whose jurisdictions, as they may respect such lands, and the States which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be, in the same manner as is before prescribed...
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