 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 2006 - 896 頁
...following terms : FELLOW-CITIZENS OP THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRBSENTATIVES : The act entitled " 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... | |
 | Loren Schweninger, Marguerite Ross Howell, Nicole Marcon Mazgaj - 2001 - 426 頁
...statement in writing or schedule provided for in the 9th section of the Act of Congress, entitled, "An act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in said District," approved April 16, 1862,1 you will please file this petition or schedule in lieu thereof,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1861 - 706 頁
...Senate, on the 16th of December, had introduced a bill of immediate and compensated emancipation u for the release of certain persons held to service...debate on this and subsequent days was marked by the op- ! position of senators from the border States. Despairing of defeating the measure entirely, its... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 844 頁
...Message to Congress Fellow citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives. The Act entitled "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... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1916 - 684 頁
...Report 58. For a report of the commissioners see House Exec. Doc. 42, 38th Cong., 1st 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... | |
 | 1863 - 1184 頁
...answer to a resolution of January 11, 1864, certain papers in addition to the report under the act " for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in the District of Columbia," approved April 16, 1862, and the act supplementary thereto, heretofore transmitted; which was laid... | |
 | James J. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes - 2003 - 370 頁
...arrange to receive the emancipated Negroes is a portion of the confiscation act. Extract from an "Act for the release of certain Persons held to Service or Labor in the District of Columbia, " 16 April 1862, enclosed in the above. And be it further enacted that the sum of $100,000, out of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1862 - 506 頁
...FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: — The act entitled "An act for the relief 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... | |
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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... 
