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[Fifteenth Amendment resolution]

Reconstruction amendment passed to combat southern opposition to federal policies toward freed slaves. Printed certificate sealed and signed, attached to printed resolution with a purple ribbon and red State Department seal. With printed circular...

GLC00788.01

To the governor of the state of Nebraska

A printed a letter to the governors of Nebraska transmitting the Fifteenth Amendment.

GLC00788.02

to unknown

Secretary of State Smith sends a cover letter with a copy of a proposed constitutional amendment (not included) banning persons holding foreign titles from public office to the New Hampshire legislature. The amendment did not pass.

GLC01623

Official U.S. Bulletin. [Vol. 3, no.524 (January 29, 1919)]

Newspaper published daily by order of the president by the United States Committee of Public Information. Contains the text of the eighteenth amendment, which established the prohibition of alcohol. Accompanied by a statement by acting Secretary of...

GLC01668

Pardon of Joseph Burzenski.

Convicted of violating prohibition. Pardoned because he helped stop an escape. Burzenski's name has been blotted-out once at the top. (c/s Wm. D. Mitchell [AG])

GLC00045.41