 | United States. Circuit Court (7th Circuit), Josiah Hooker Bissell - District courts - 1874 - 590 pages
...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...taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States, and such citizens, of evenrace and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 844 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...those of other colored persons. By act of congress of April 9, 1866, 14 Stat. at Large, 27, ยง 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... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 796 pages
...essayed to do by the civil rights bill, passed April 9, 1866, (14 Stat, 27), by which it was declared that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to a foreign power (except Indians, not taxed), should be citizens of the United States ; and that such... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...April 9, I860, the "civil rights bill" was passed by congress over the president's veto ; it enacted "that all persons born in the United States and not...taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States ; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery... | |
 | John Russell Hussey - United States - 1876 - 562 pages
...United State., in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication. Be it enacted, #c., That all persons born in the United States and not...taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States; and such citizens of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...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 and not...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... | |
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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... 
