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Passed the Senate on May 21, 1872 (38-2 [3]) Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on May 22, 1872 The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the Fourteenth Amendment , adopted on July 9, 1868.
Cession by North Carolina of a District in the Western Territory accepted. An Act to accept a cession of the claims of the state of North Carolina to a certain district of Western Territory. Sess. 2, ch. 6 1 Stat. 106 (chapter 6) 7: April 10, 1790: Patents for Useful Inventions. An Act to promote the progress of useful Arts. (Patent Act of 1790)
January 21 – Thomas Bragg, U.S. Senator from North Carolina from 1859 to 1861, 2nd Confederate States Attorney General (born 1810) January 25 – Richard S. Ewell, Confederate general (born 1817) February 7 – James W. Grimes, U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1859 to 1869 (born 1816) March or April – Mercator Cooper, sea captain (born 1803)
Congress passed the act on July 9, 1846, [187] residents of Alexandria County were proclaimed by the president to have agreed to it on September 7, 1846, [188] and Virginia took possession of the land on this date. [189] May 29, 1848 The southern bulk of Wisconsin Territory was admitted as the thirtieth state, Wisconsin.
The election of 1872 also remains the only instance in U.S. history in which a major presidential candidate who won electoral votes died during the election process. This election set the record for the longest Republican popular vote win streak in American history, four elections, a record that was matched by the same party in 1908 .
The Parliament of Canada passed the Dominion Lands Act in 1872 in order to encourage settlement in the Northwest Territories. Its application was restricted after the passage of the Natural Resources Acts in 1930, and it was finally repealed in 1950.
Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the Union with Ireland Act 1800 is cited as "39 & 40 Geo. 3 c. 67", meaning the 67th act passed during the session that started in the 39th year of the reign of George III and which finished in ...
The 1872–73 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1872, and April 7, 1873. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 43rd United States Congress convened on December 1, 1873.