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. Roger's Resolution on rebel debt is taken up
Resolved, That the testimony taken as to Hon. James Brooks be recommitted to the Committee of Elections, with instructions to report especially the facts as to the custom underWilliam E. Dodge is not entitled to a seat in the laws of New York ofHouse appointing inspectors of the a Repregistry of elections not from the particular election districtsve in which they reside; also, the facts respectirty-ning the verification by Brooks of the vot Congress for Brooks inm the fifteeneighth district, with power to send for persons and papers, and power to reinstitute judicial reëxamination in said district in New York.