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Acts of Liberian Legislature

1891-1892

An act to close the port of entry at River Cess, Grand Bassa County [due to loss of traffic] (1892, p. 3).

An act to repeal so much of an act requiring constables and other collecting officers at Robertsport to make their report to the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas Montserrado County in common with others, approved January 1st 1885 [shifting reports instead to the Provisional Monthly and Probate Court] (1892, pp. 3-4).

An act granting the Zion Grove Association, Baptist Mission of Sinoe County, two hundred acres of land on the Joeyah Road in the aforesaid county (1892, p. 4).

Resolution providing [five hundred dollars] for the surveying and plotting of the town of Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount (1892, pp. 4-5).

Joint resolution [providing two hundred dollars] for the completion of cleaning Jay Creek in the county of Grand Bassa (1892, p. 5).
Joint resolution [providing two thousand dollars] for cleaning out Mechlin River in the county of Grand Bassa.

Joint resolution making appropriation [of six hundred dollars] for the inauguration of the president and vice president (1892, p. 5).

An act creating a Native African Bureau and supplementing “An act authorizing the appointment of shipping masters at the several ports of entry in Liberia” [appointing a General Shipping Agent with a salary of four hundred per year to regulate the shipping of workers from Liberia] (1892, pp. 5-9).

Joint resolution fixing the day of adjournment of the First Session of the Twenty third Legislature of the Republic of Liberia (1892, p. 9).

A resolution authorizing the secretary of state to accept the invitation of the United States government to cooperate in the International Columbian Exhibition to be held in the city of Chicago, A.D. 1893, and the appointment of commissioners to the same [with an appropriation of ten thousand dollars, including one thousand and five hundred for each of two commissions (1892, pp. 9-10).

Joint resolution for the educating in the Liberia College thirteen male youth [one each from the Saint Paul’s River, Junk-Marshall, Careysburg and Robertsport-Grand Cape Mount and three each from Grand Bassa, Sinoe and Maryland] (1892, p. 10).

An act to incorporate the Young Men’s Christian Association in the county of Maryland [naming J. S. Pratt, E. H. A. Dennis, C. H. Tascoe, Nathan Barnes, A. H. Dent, J. W. Gross, W. T. Smith, J. A. Neal, Allen Yancy, H.H. Evans, W. G. McKnight, J. T. Wilson, William H. Yancy, S. W. Yancy, A. R. Harmon, J. W. Dent, H. H. Yancy, J. W. Yancy, W. J. Chase, D. W. Cain, R. A. Brewer, W. C. Tunning, J. A. Tull, James S. Dent, J. W. Yates, J. R. Gibson, W. Hance, A. L. Gibson and E. J. Price] (1892, p. 10).

An act amending the charter of the city of Edina, Grand Bassa County (1892, pp. 11-14).

Joint resolution relating to immigration [appropriating six thousand dollars in gold annually to the American Colonization Society] (1892, p. 15).

Joint resolution authorizing a negotiation for the ratification of an extradition treaty between the Republic of Liberia and Her Britannic Majesty’s government, the colony of Sierra Leone, Mannah Salijah and other British possessions on the northwest (1892, pp. 15-16).

An act providing for the registration of claims [by Liberians] against the government (1892, pp. 16-17).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1891-1892. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1892.