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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.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
The Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate for the Thirty-Ninth Session of Congress
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Session 13176: 1866-01-11 10:00:00
The Committee amends S. 61 and reports it back to the Senate as amended; the credentials of John P. Stockton are considered
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Credentials of John P. Stockton
The State of New Jersey to John P. Stockton, esquire, greeting:
The senate and general assembly, reposing special trust and confidence in your integrity, prudence, and ability, have, at a joint meeting, appointed you, the said John P. Stockton, esq., to be senator of the United States, on the part of the State of New Jersey, for the term of six years from the fourth day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-five, for the State of New Jersey. You are therefore, by these presents, commissioned to be senator of the United States on the part of the State of New Jersey. To have and to hold the same during the term limited by law.
In testimony whereof, the great seal of the State is hereunto affixed.
Witness Joel Parker, governor of the State of New Jersey, at Trenton, the fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-ninth.
JOEL PARKER
By the Governor
W. S. JOHNSON, Secretary of State.
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