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Abstract of Passengers from Foreign Countries, Arrived at the Port of New York, for the Quarter Ending June 30, 1850
6/30/1850
Act of December 31, 1862, Public Law 37-4, 12 STAT 633, which admitted the state of West Virginia into the Union.
12/31/1862
Act of January 26, 1837, 5 STAT 144, admitting the state of Michigan into the Union
1/26/1837
Act of March 2, 1867, Public Law 39-73, 14 STAT 434, which established the Department of Education
3/2/1867
Act of March 21, 1864, Public Law 38-30, 13 STAT 30, which admitted Nevada as a state in the Union and enabled its people to form a constitution and state government
3/21/1864
Act of March 3, 1863, Public Law37-96, 12 STAT 808, which created the Idaho Territory
3/3/1863
Active Passage. Saturna Group, looking West
1857 - 1862
John Quincy Adams's Request for Papers Relating to the Lower Court Trials of the Amistad Africans
1841
Address of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
7/13/1836
Address on the Cumberland Prepared by Rear Admiral Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr.
1861 - 1865
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