...1865,* and in April of the following year the civil-rights act was passed.f Its first section declares that all persons born in the United States, and not...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are "citizens of thu United States," and that "such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to...

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...circumstances under which it can be transferred. The first section of the act of 1SO6 declares that uall persons born in the United States and not subject...citizens of the United States, and such citizens, of evenrace and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except...

...vote of each House became a law, April 6th, 1866. It is known as the Civil Rights Bill. It declares, that all persons born in the United States, and not...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, arc citizens of the United States; and all such citizens, of every race and color, without regard to...

...Congress in April, 1866, known as the Civil Rights Bill, gave expression to this opinion. It declared all persons born in the United States, and not subject...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, to be citizens of the United States. It conferred upon the freedmen all the rights, and made them liable...

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...the citizen's place of residence. In a speech upon the civil rights bill, which contained the phrase "all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power or tribal authority, shall be citizens of the United States," Senator Reverdy Johnson propounded the...

...the record. I do not so read that law. I understand it to give to all citizens of the United States of every race and color without regard to any previous condition of slavery the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, etc., and...

...population and all other excepted classes citizens of the United States. By the first section of the bill all persons born in the United States, and not subject...any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States, This provision comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific...

...9th, 1866, which has already been referred to. That act, as we have seen, expressly declares that all citizens of every race and color, without regard to...previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, etc., and to...