 | Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional law - 1874 - 420 pages
...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... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - Constitutional law - 1874 - 412 pages
...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... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...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... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...colored persons. By act of congress of April 9, 1866, 14 Stat. at Large, 27, § 1, it is provided : " That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indiana not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citizens, of... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...admitted. On April 9, 18G6, the "civil rights bill" was passed by congress over the president's veto ; it enacted " that all persons born in the United States...excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to bo citizens of the United States ; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1877 - 814 pages
...Republicans themselves. In reporting the bill from the committee Mr. Trumbull had added, as an amendment, that " all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States without distinction of color." In his explanatory... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 966 pages
...See 14 Statutes at Large, chapter 31, p. 27, sections 1 and 3. The first section of the act declares "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;" and it enacted that such citizens of every race and color, shall... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law - 1879 - 1054 pages
...broader than the amendment, should be taken into view as still operative. The important provisions are, that all persons born in the United States, and not...to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed (act of April 9, ISO(i); all children heretofore born, or hereafter born, out of the United States,... | |
 | New York (State) - Election law - 1880 - 368 pages
...FRANCHISE AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF CITIZENS. TITLE I. CITIZKNSHIP. Citizens, who are. who are' SEC. ^^' ^ll 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. VSRS, 2d ed., § 1992, tit. 25. Citizens, who are. citizens,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1880 - 1218 pages
...becomes a citizen of the United States, as defined by section Ш2 of the Revised Statutes, which says that "all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians *"' taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States." But if there was no law on the subject,... | |
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that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign Power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States... 
