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An Act to enlarge the Term and Powers of Two Acts, one made in the Thirty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, [az] for repairing and widening several Roads therein mentioned, in the Counties of Southampton and Dorset, and the other made in the Second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, [ba] to amend the said former Act; and for ...
Revolutionary confederal republic (1781–1783) ... In 1780, Congress created the ... Congress failed to act on these proposals, and reformers began to take action ...
In 1780, when Maryland ... The Act of the Maryland legislature to ratify the Articles of Confederation, February 2, 1781 ... Redeeming the Republic: Federalists, ...
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Ireland for the years from 1771 to 1780. The number shown by each act's title is its chapter number. Acts are cited using this number, preceded by the years of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held; thus the act concerning assay passed in 1783 is cited as "23 & 24 Geo. 3. c.
Pennsylvania's An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery of 1780 was the first legislative enactment in the United States. [4] It specified that Every Negro and Mulatto child born within the State after the passing of the Act (1780) would be free upon reaching age twenty-eight." [4]
The 1780s (pronounced "seventeen-eighties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1780, and ended on December 31, 1789. A period widely considered as transitional between the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution , the 1780s saw the inception of modern philosophy .
World's first federal republic founded on the consent of the governed; ... The act increased the smuggling of foreign molasses, ... By 1780, Congress was making ...
An Amendment, created to explain and to close loopholes in the 1780 Act, was passed in the Pennsylvania legislature on March 29, 1788. The Amendment prohibited Pennsylvanians from transporting pregnant enslaved women out-of-state so that their children would be born enslaved, and also prohibited Pennsylvanians from separating enslaved husbands from wives and enslaved children from parents.