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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Mr. Boyer submits a Resolution to dissolve the Joint Committee on Reconstruction; Mr. Stevens submits a resolution limiting the length of speeches on H. Res. 127 to thirty minutes; A substitute for H. R. 437 is reported and recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary
Whereas the joint committee of fifteen on reconstruction reported on the 30th ultimo, after the arduous labors of five months’ continuous incubation, a well-matured plan of “how not to do it,” in which they have fully met the expectations of the country, which is as much as ought ordinarily to be demanded of any committee: Therefore,
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring,) That said joint committee be discharged.