Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 17:25:52 -0400

I ran across the following while reviewing old

Congressional records and thought that it might be useful to
anyone seeking to educate or prove the 14th amendment
citizen position to "non-believers". For ease of reading I
typed up the contents of the page scan but have attached the
on-line TIFF image for your reference. The full record is
available on page 603 at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-
bin/ampage?
collId=llsl&fileName=016/llsl016.db&recNum=63 8. This
was taken from the Congressional record and I want to
know how to get me and Ralph listed in one of these
private Acts:

PRIVATE ACTS OF THE FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS

OF THE
UNITED STATES,

Passed at the Second Session, which was begun and held at

the City of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on
Monday, the sixth day of December, A.D. 1869, and was
adjourned without day on Friday the fifteenth day of July,
A.D. 1870.

Ulysses S. Grant, President. Schuyler Colfax, Vice-

President and President of the Senate pro tempore on the
twenty-eighth day of May, A.D. 1870, and so acted until
and including June third; also on the first of July, and so
acted until and including July fifth; was again elected
President pro tempore on the fourteenth day of July, and so
acted until the end of the session. James G. Blaine, Speaker
of the House of Representatives.

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Chap. I. - An Act to relieve certain Persons therein named

from the legal and political Disabilities imposed by the
fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United
States, and for other Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(two-thirds of each House con-curring therein,) That all
legal and political disabilities imposed by the fourteenth
amendment of the Constitution of the United States, by
reason of participation in the late rebellion, be, and they
hereby are, removed from the following persons, namely:

... it then goes on to name people by state and county.

Interesting little artifact is it not?
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"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. ... Can
the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their
only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these
liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but
with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." -- Thomas Jefferson

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