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The Customs Law Repeal Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4. c. 105), also known as the Customs' Laws' Repeal Act 1825, the Customs Repeal Act 1825 or the Customs Act 1825, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that repealed various enactments relating to customs in the United Kingdom from 1558 to 1823.
The Supplemental Customs Consolidation Act 1855 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 96) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that further consolidated the various statutes relating to customs in the United Kingdom.
Per the act of March 3, 1823, the nine members of the council were appointed by President James Monroe, chosen from the top 18 vote-earners in a general election.In addition to the appointed members listed below, the slate of names sent to the president included Louis Baufet, William Brown, Harry Conant, Laurent Durocher, Francois Navarre, Ebenezer Reed, Solomon Sibley, and Benjamin F. Stickney.
The Combinations of Workmen Act 1825 (6 Geo. 4.c. 129) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which prohibited trade unions from attempting to collectively bargain for better terms and conditions at work, with the exception of increased wages and better working hours, and suppressed the right to strike.
African-American activist Robert Purvis refused to pay his Pennsylvania state taxes in protest against the state's denial of equal voting rights to black citizens around 1838, and then refused to pay the part of his property tax that went towards education in 1853 when his children were refused admission to the whites-only classrooms. [47]
12), commonly known as the Declaratory Act, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the amendment of the Sugar Act. Parliament repealed the Stamp Act because boycotts were hurting British trade and used the declaration to justify the repeal and avoid humiliation.
June 1 – Daniel Tompkins, sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (born 1774) June 4 – Morris Birkbeck, writer and social reformer (born 1764) June 14 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect and civil engineer (born 1754 in France) August 16 – Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, politician and soldier (born 1746)
The regulation of working hours was then extended to women by an act of Parliament in 1844. The Factories Act 1847 (known as the Ten Hour Act), together with acts in 1850 and 1853 remedying defects in the 1847 act, met a long-standing (and by 1847 well-organised) demand by the millworkers for a ten-hour day.