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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.
September 22 – Garrett Davis, U.S. Senator from Kentucky from 1861 to 1872 (born 1801) October 10 – William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 (born 1801) November 5 – Thomas Sully, portrait painter (born 1783 in Great Britain) November 6 – George Meade, Civil War general (born 1815)
This is a chronological, but incomplete, list of United States federal legislation passed by the 1st through 56th United States Congresses, between 1789 and 1901. For the main article on this subject, see List of United States federal legislation.
When Congress passed the General Mining Act of 1872, the wording was changed to "or other valuable deposits," giving greater scope to the law. The 1872 law was codified as 30 U.S.C. §§ 22-42 [14] The 1872 act also granted extralateral rights to lode claims, and fixed the maximum size of lode claims as 1500 feet (457m) long and 600 feet (183m ...
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 .
2nd: December 4, 1871 – June 10, 1872 3rd : December 2, 1872 – March 4, 1873 The 42nd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives .
[208] [209] At the urging of President Ulysses S. Grant, in 1872 Congress passed the Amnesty Act, which removed the disqualification from all but the most senior Confederates. [214] In 1898, as a "gesture of national unity" [209] during the Spanish–American War, Congress passed another law broadening the amnesty.
The Ballot Act 1872 [1] (35 & 36 Vict. c. 33) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that introduced the requirement for parliamentary and local government elections in the United Kingdom to be held by secret ballot. [2] [3] [4] The act abolished the traditional hustings system of nomination and election in Britain. [5]