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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Smith Ely, Jr.

(April 17, 1825 — July 1, 1911) Smith Ely, Jr. was a lawyer, businessman, and politician. Ely was born in Hanover, New Jersey in 1825 and moved to New York City to attend New York University. He graduated from the NYU Law School in 1846 and was admitted to the bar that same year. Although he was admitted to the bar, he never practiced law. Instead, Ely worked in the mercantile business and started his political career. He served as a member of the State Senate, as a school commissioner, and county supervisor. Ely was elected as a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1873. He wasn’t a candidate for reelection in 1872, but was elected again to serve in the Forty-Fourth Congress from March 4, 1875 to December 11, 1876 when he resigned. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/E000167]

Member of New York Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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