An amendment to the United States Constitution to abolish slavery introduced during the American Civil War.
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S. 159 is reported to the Senate.
A BILL
To aid the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proclamation of emancipation issued by the President of the United States on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, so far as the same declares that the slaves in certain designated States and parts of States thenceforward should be free, is hereby adopted and enacted as a statute of the United States, and as a rule and article for the government of the military and naval forces thereof.