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United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866
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.
House Committee of Elections
The Committee of Elections of the House of Representatives for the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress.
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Session 5847: 1866-01-25 00:00:00
The Committee of Elections and a minority of the Committee report on the Contested Election of Coffroth vs. Koontz.
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Resolutions on the Contested Election of Coffroth vs. Koontz
Resolved, That Alexander H. Coffroth, upon the certificate and papers relating to the election in the sixteenth congressional district of the State of Pennsylvania, has the prima facie right to the vacant seat from that district, and is entitled to take the oath of office and occupy a seat in this house as the representative in Congress from said district, without prejudice to the right of William H. Koontz, claiming to have been duly elected thereto, to contest his right to said seat upon the merits.
Resolved, That William H. Koontz, desiring to contest the right of Hon. Alexander H. Coffroth to a seat in this house as a representative from the sixteenth district of the State of Pennsylvania, be, and he is, required to serve upon the said Coffroth, within fifteen days after the passage of this resolution, a particular statement of the grounds of said contest, and that the said Coffroth be and he is hereby required to serve upon the said Koontz his answer thereto within fifteen days thereafter, and that both parties be allowed sixty days next after the service of said answer to take testimony in support of their several allegations and denials, notice of intention to examine witnesses to be given to the opposite party at least five days before their examination, but neither party to give notice of taking testimony within less than five days between the close of taking it at one place and its commencement at another, but in all other respects in the manner prescribed in the act of February 19, 1851.
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- Resolutions on the Contested Election of Coffroth vs. Koontz (introduced on 1866-01-25 00:00:00 - CREATE - e663158) [This document]
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