An amendment to the Constitution of the United States that granted citizenship and equal rights, both civil and legal, to Black Americans, including those who had been emancipated by the thirteenth amendment.
The House of Representatives of the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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Credentials of G. H. Kyle from Arkansas and documents on H. C. Warmoth of Louisiana are referred to the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction; the death of Orlando Kellogg is announced
Resolved, That this House has learned with sincere regret the death of Hon. Orlando Kellogg, memberĀ-elect to this House from the sixteenth congressional district of New York, and that to mark their respect for his memory, the members of this House will go into mourning by wearing crape upon the left arm for thirty days.
Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, this House do now adjourn.
Ordered, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the Senate.