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Session 14054: 1864-03-09 12:00:00

S. 159 is reported to the Senate.

United States Thirteenth Amendment 1863-65

Committee on Slavery and Freedmen of the Senate

Session 14054: 1864-03-09 12:00:00

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S. 159

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A BILL

To aid the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President of the United States on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, so far as the same declares that the slaves in certain designated States and parts of States thenceforward should be free, is hereby adopted and enacted as a statute of the United States, and as a rule and article for the government of the military and naval forces thereof.

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