 | Virginia State Library - 1910 - 460 頁
...House. Jan. 17, 1860. (v. 43)^-On law and uniform postage. May 19th, 1862. (v. 12) — On the bill for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia. April 11, 1862. (v. 8)— State of the Union. Feb. 9. 1861. (v. 3) Hutchins, WA Remarks of Hutchins... | |
 | Daniel Joseph Ryan - 1911 - 550 頁
...Emancipation." Speech of Hon. JM Ashley, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, April 11, 1862, on the bill for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia. Washington, DC : Scammell & Co., Printers. 1862. Pamphlet. 8 vo. pp. 8. During the first session of... | |
 | John Bigelow - 1909 - 658 頁
...subject impracticable. During the same session and on the 16th of April President Lincoln approved an act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia, which provided for the compensation of the owners. notice, in a proclamation, of the intention, which he... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1916 - 688 頁
...change of system. No. 129. Act abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia April 16, 1862 A BILL "for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia" was introduced in the Senate, December 16, 1861, by Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. The debate on the... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1916 - 688 頁
...Report 58. For a report of the commissioners see House Exec. Doc. 42, 38th Cong., ist Sess. An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia. Be it enacted . . . , That all persons held to service or labor within the District of Columbia by... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1919 - 526 頁
...1861. Congress responded to this recommendation in separate acts, providing in an act, April 16, 1862, for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia, including those to be liberated by this act, as may desire to emigrate to the Republic of Hayti or... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1926 - 742 頁
...change of system. No. 129. Act abolishing Slavery in the District of Columbia April 16, 1862 A BILL "for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in tht District of Columbia" was introduced in the Senate, December 16, 1861, by Henry Wilson of Massachusetts.... | |
 | 1962 - 778 頁
...Under an act of Apr. 16, 1862 (12 Stat. 376), and a supplementary act of July 12, 1862 (12 Stat. 538) "for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia," three Commissioners were appointed to examine petitions for compensation to the former owners of freed... | |
 | 2000 - 316 頁
...C. LArbelbide 1 David L. Lewis, District of Columbia: A Bicentennial History (1976), p. 43. ("An Act for the Release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia," April 16, 1862. Original document is housed at the National Archives. The District of Columbia Emancipation... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1913 - 248 頁
...is expressed here on the discovery that a section was smuggled into the act supplementary to the act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia which places the negro upon an equality with a white man in the courts of justice here. "The section alluded... | |
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An act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia," has this day been approved and signed. I have never doubted the constitutional authority of Congress to abolish slavery in this District, and I have ever... 
