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United States. Congress Acts of Congress, general orders, and instructions for the guidance of boards of Registration, in the third military district, (Georgia, Alabama, and Florida.)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00349 Author/Creator: United States. Congress Place Written: Atlanta, Georgia Type: Pamphlet Date: 1867 Pagination: 15, 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm Order a Copy

Acts of Congressional reconstruction, centering on the registration of freedmen to vote, beginning with two Acts "to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states," signed in type by Schuyler Colfax and Lafayette Foster; a second Act signed in type by Colfax and B.F. Wade. With supplementary reconstruction acts of Congress passed 19 July 1867. First edition.

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