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  2. List of United States federal legislation, 1789–1901 - Wikipedia

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    February 18, 1793: An Act for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same, Sess. 2, ch. 8, 1 Stat. 305; March 2, 1793: Judiciary Act of 1793, Sess. 2, ch. 22, 1 Stat. 333 (including Anti-Injunction Act)

  3. Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 - Wikipedia

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    The Act was passed by the House of Representatives on February 4, 1793, by a vote of 48–7, with 14 abstaining. [2] The "Annals of Congress" state that the law was approved on February 12, 1793. [3] The Act was written amidst a controversy about a free black man named John Davis who was kidnapped from Pennsylvania and brought to Virginia.

  4. Slave Trade Act of 1794 - Wikipedia

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    The Slave Trade Act of 1794 was a law passed by the United States Congress that prohibited the building or outfitting of ships in U.S. ports for the international slave trade. It was signed into law by President George Washington on March 22, 1794. This was the first of several anti-slave-trade acts of Congress.

  5. 3rd United States Congress - Wikipedia

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    February 11, 1794: Wishing to avoid charges of being a Star Chamber, the Senate holds its first public session, resolving "That the Senate doors be opened". [1] [2] March 14, 1794: Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin; March 27, 1794: The federal government authorized the construction of the original six frigates of the United ...

  6. Trump’s financial disclosure shows millions made from ... - AOL

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    Trump reported earning more than $12 million through licensing and royalty deals from two LLCs he owns, including about $7.2 million as part of a “license agreement with NFT INT, LLC,” the ...

  7. 1794 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Democratic Societies of 1793 and 1794 in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The William and Mary Quarterly, Second Series, Vol. 2, No. 4 (October 1922), pp. 239–243. Arthur Preston Whitaker. Harry Innes and the Spanish Intrigue: 1794–1795. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 15, No. 2 (September 1928), pp. 236–248.

  8. Nonintercourse Act - Wikipedia

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    The Nonintercourse Act (also known as the Indian Intercourse Act or the Indian Nonintercourse Act) is the collective name given to six statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, and 1834 to set boundaries of American Indian reservations.

  9. William Johnson (judge) - Wikipedia

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    In the majority opinion, Marshall held that a federal licensing law expressed Congress's intent to regulate steamboat commerce and that it invalidated a New York law creating a steamboat monopoly. [ 15 ] : 339 In contrast, in Johnson's concurring opinion, he uncompromisingly argued that it was the federal government's exclusive power regardless ...