Category: Acts of Liberian Legislature

Joint resolution making appropriation [three hundred dollars] for defraying the expenses of the inauguration of the president and vice president elect (1888, p. 3).

An act supplementary and amendatory to an act regulating the residence of native Africans within the Republic [allowing Christianized and civilized aborigines to draw lands the same as emigrant allotments] (1888, p. 3).

Joint resolution for the relief of Charles R. Johnson [born 1812, the last surviving male from the Sherbo Island settlers, veteran of a battle in 1822] formerly of the city of Monrovia, Montserrado County, but at present a resident of Grand Bassa County (1888, pp. 3-4).

An act granting the Presbyterian Mission two hundred acres of land at Cape Mount in Montserrado County (1888, p. 4).

Resolution authorizing the president of the Republic of Liberia to employ an armed force, domestic or foreign, to subdue the rebellious Greboes in Maryland County (1888, p. 5).

An act for the better regulation of the postal service of this Republic [ordering all mail sent through the post office, not through steamers] (1888, pp. 5-7).

An act interdicting the port of entry and delivery of Half Cavalla, Maryland County, in the Republic of Liberia [due to a rebellion by some Greboes against Christianized Greboes and other subjects of the Republic] (1888, pp. 7-8).

An act granting the Protestant Episcopal Mission in Liberia two hundred acres in the county of Grand Bassa (1888, pp. 8-9).

A resolution for the protection of the government against the fraud of aliens [aimed at fraudulently enjoy the advantages of two nationalities and to escape the duties and burdens of both] (1888, p. 9).

An act restoring James M. Curd and Peter Hilton to citizenship (1888, p. 9).

An act granting the citizens of Maryland County [two hundred and fifty dollars] assistance in repairing the causeway that connects the two wards of the city of Harper, known by the names of Latrobe and Hoffman Station (1888, p. 10).

An act restoring Thomas H. Johnson of Maryland County and Sarah E. Barnny, David Bryant and Samuel Jackson of Montserrado, Republic of Liberia, to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1888, p. 10).

Resolution proposing amendments to the Constitution to be submitted to the people at the next biennial election to be held A.D. 1889 [to shift referenda from being held simultaneously with elections of legislators to being ordered at any time by two thirds of both branches] (1888, pp. 10-11).

An act repealing certain portion of an act entitled an act providing for and restricting the payment of import and export duties in each county of this Republic (1888, p. 11).

An act making a special appropriation to pay one C. H. Morgan the sum of one hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents, for services rendered the government as deputy collector for the port of Cavalla, Maryland County (1888, p. 11).

An act to employ a scientific mineralogist and geologist to make researches [in collaboration with B. J. K. Anderson] for valuable mines in this Republic [appropriating three thousand dollars] (1888, p.12).

Resolution exempting La Compaignie Francaise de l’Afrique Occidentale, that is to say the French Company of Western Africa line of mail steamers from tonnage dues in consideration of certain services to be rendered to the Republic of Liberia by said line of mail steamers [namely, the transportation of commissioned officials when traveling on official duties (1888, pp. 12-13).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1887-1888. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1888.

An act to grant seventy five acres of land for the Anna Morris School of Arthington and to incorporate the same [naming Edward S. Morris as sole trustee] (1887, p. 3).

An act amending an act providing for the erection of a court house in Grand Bassa County [appropriating five thousand dollars for construction] (1887, pp. 3-4).

[A resolution proposing a Constitution Amendment extending the term of senators to eight years and of representatives, the president and vice president from two to four years] (1887, p. 4).

An act reimbursing the superintendent of Robertsport [appropriating one hundred dollars for clerks salary] (1887, pp. 4-5).

An act providing for a bridge in the settlement of Tallah, Grand Cape Mount [appropriating seventy dollars] (1887, p. 5).

Resolution for the immediate settlement of the difficulty between the [Ding] Golahs and the Boatswain tribes [allegedly precipitated by Dwollah Zeppia of Bongh, successor to Farquaqua], and opening of the road (1887, pp. 5-6).

An amendment to the several statutes regulating the payment and the collection of duties upon imports [at ten percent on the dollar] and exports [one cent per gallon on palm oil, two cent per bushel on palm kernels, three and a half dollar per ton on camwood and no charge on clean coffee] within this Republic (1887, p. 6).

An act appropriating the sum of one hundred and sixty dollars open the avenue for the people of Sassy Town, Louisiana Settlement (1887, pp. 6-7).

[An act placing the superintendent of Cape Mount under the immediate direction of the president} (1887, p. 7).

[An act placing an interdiction upon the port of Timbo, from Quintizone point to Mannah point, Grand Bassa COunty] (1887, pp. 7-8).

A resolution fixing the day of adjournment of the twentieth legislature, second session (1887, p. 8).

A resolution authorizing the suppression of the rebellious attitude assumed by the Greboes at Half Cavalla in Maryland County [appropriating twenty thousand dollars, in case a military expedition is deemed necessary by the president] (1887, p. 8).

An act to incorporate Zion Grove Baptist Church of Brewersville, Montserrado County [naming J.O. Hayes (pastor), R.H. Eubanks (deacon), Charles Freeman (deacon), Warren Phelps (deacon), March Gaskings (deacon), J.C. Sears (deacon), W.B. Gant (deacon), John Brown (trustee), M. Wynn (trustee), L. Daily (trustee), Henry Clements (trustee) and George Holmes (trustee)] (1887, pp. 8-9).

An act to alter and amend the several acts establishing the judiciary and regulating the powers common to the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of the several counties (1887, pp. 9-10).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1886-1887. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1887.

An act restoring sundry persons to the rights and privileges of citizenship [naming Alexander Moulton (Maryland), James W. Stephens (Maryland), George Williams (Montserado), G.W. Smith (Montserrado), Edward J. Skipwith (Montserrado) and John Priest (Sinoe)] (1884, p. 3).

An act repealing an act entitled an act for the relief of government, passed and approved January 11th 1884 and providing for the payment of bonds issued under the act of the legislature and approved January 12th 1880 [repealing the order for defacing of one half of all government currency] (1884, p. 3).

A resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay to L. C. Sherman [former collector of the Sinoe port] the sum of one hundred and thirty one dollars [the amount he was compelled into the treasury for allowing a five percent discount on liquor imports by the firm of A. Woermann] (1884, p. 4).

An act amendatory to the fifth section of an act for the relief of government approved January 12, 1880 {ordering the payment of all fines and taxes in audited bills] (1884, p. 4).

A resolution authorizing a discount of 5 percent to all importers of liquor into this Republic (1884, pp. 4-5).

An act amendatory to the ninth section of an act to regulate the militia and defining the duties of the general [providing for annual visits to the counties by the brigadier general to inspect the regiments] (1884, p. 5).

An act in respect to certain officers, reports [requiring collectors of fines, taxes and other public funds to receive independent confirmations of their reports from the Court of Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions of each county] (1884, p. 6).

An act supplementary to an act amendatory to an act entitled an act creating an interior department [placing all stipends for chiefs and highway funds under the secretary of the interior and requiring the holder of that office to report to the legislature, in addition to the president] (1884, p. 7).

Joint resolution authorizing [three hundred dollars for] the survey of the settlement of Brewerville (1884, p. 7).

An act fixing [at three hundred dollars] the salary of the collector of customs of the port of Niffou in Sinou County in the Republic of Liberia, under act of the legislature approved January 18th 1884 (1884, p. 8).

An act for the encouragement of agriculture and authorizing and requesting the president to enter into and conclude a commercial treaty with the government of the United States of America to mutually admit free of duty certain articles of merchandise as the agricultural interest of Liberia suffers from the heavy duties by the tariff laws of the United States upon the Liberian products imported into that county. (1884, p. 8-9).

An act legitimizing Daniel Warner of the county of Montserrado, an illegitimate son of John J. Woodson (1884, p. 9).

An act legitimizing Josiah Abner Prosser of the county of Grand Bassa, an illegitimate son of William Henry Prosser (1884, p. 9).

An act restoring sundry persons to citizenship [naming Richard A. Kennedy, Henry Cotton, Leonard Williams and William Anderson, all of Montserrado, and J.F. Scotland and C.J. Adams of Maryland] (1884, p. 10).

An act legitimizing George Henry Ash, illegitimate son of Henry Ash and adopted son of Isaac James Ash and Mary Catherine Ash, as legal heir and son of the aforesaid Isaac James Ash, and Mary Catherine Ash of the settlement of Clay-Ashland and county of Montserrado (1884, p. 10)l.

Joint resolution authorizing His Excellency the President to contract with Messrs H. Muller and Col, of Rotterdam, Holland, for the purchase of a steam gunboat [appropriating thirty thousand dollars] (1884, pp. 10-11).

An act establishing an additional port of entry and delivery at the southwest side of the mouth of the Cavally River in the county of Maryland (1884, pp. 11-12).

A resolution reviving and amending the charter of the city of Greenville in the county of Sinou (1884, p. 12).

Joint resolution to incorporate a female institution in the settlement of Brewerville, under the name and style of the “Garnet Memorial School” [naming H. R.W. Johnson, C. L. Parsons, R. H. Jackson, John O. Hayes, S. N. Williams, S. J. Campbell, J. S. Washington, W. D. Coleman, James M. Strother, B. K. McKeever and Spencer McMillan and the grant of one hundred acres of land previously granted to this institute by former president A. F. Russell] (1884, pp. 12-13).

A joint resolution restoring Iena Morris of the city of Greenville in the county of Sinou to the rights and privileges of other good citizens (1884, p. 13).

An act to incorporate the M. E. Church of Greenville, Sinou County [naming William P. Kennedy, Jr., Z. B. Roberts, J. W. Draper, John Manus, J. W. Bonner and J. L. Fuller] (1884, pp. 13-14).

A joint resolution reimbursing the heirs of D.F. Smith [three thousand dollars] and F.M. McGill [six hundred dollars] and G.R. McGill [two hundred and fifty dollars] for property lost by the burning of the house owned by the heirs of D.F. Smith by the insurgents during the so-called rebellion in the county of Grand Bassa in the month of August, 1884 (1884, p. 14).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1884-1885. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1885.

An act amendatory to an act regulating the duties of the tax collectors of the different counties (1884, p. 3).

An amendatory act to an act to amend the several existing acts regulating the militia [imposing penalties and fines on military fine collectors who are late in transmitting quarterly returns] (1884, pp. 3-4).

An act to repeal certain portions of the act entitled an act to amend the several existing acts regulating the militia, passed by two third vote January 26th 1884 [reinstating the officer drill] (1884, p. 4).

An act amendatory to an act regulating the militia in Maryland County, Republic of Liberia [shifting the third quarterly parade day to the first Friday of April, to avoid a conflict with “Fast and Prayer Day”] (1884, pp. 4-5).

An act authorizing the compilation and printing of the decisions and rulings of the Supreme Court [appropriating three hundred and fifty dollars to pay a compiler] (1884, p. 5).

An act to incorporate Sey’s Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church, Careysburg, Montserrdo County [naming William T. Hagan, George C. Nelson, Marshall Givens, Richard Craggs, Samuel Bates, Benjamin Hornsby and Jacob Waters] (1884, p. 6).

An act to incorporate the McClintock Grove Methodist Episcopal Church, Bensonville, county of Montserrado [naming F. Tilman, A. Gall, Henry Brent, R. Boyce, M. DeVault and Daniel Smith] (1884, pp. 6-7).

An act to incorporate the First Baptist Church, Careysburg, Montserrado County [naming J.A. Curthbert, George W. Walker, Isaac Givens, Nelson Moment, F.W. Jackson, J.C. Johnson, Hank Woodson, Thomas Carroll and Richard F. Walker] (1884, p. 7).

An act restoring John Henry Diggs of Grand Bassa County to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1884, p. 7).

Supplementary act amendatory to an act for the relief of government approved January 9th 1883 and amending an additional act supplementing the several existing acts regulating the payment of custom duties etc., approved January 11th 1883 [ordering that one eighth of all import duty be paid by gold coin] (1884, p. 8).

A resolution appropriating an amount of seventy five dollars for opening and cleaning out the Ayers Creek that leads to Barnersville in the rear of the settlement of New Georgia (1884, p. 8).

An act amendatory to an act for the relief of government approved Janaury 9th 1883, also amending an additional act supplementing the several existing acts regulating the payment of custom duties etc., approved January 11th 1883 [ordering the defacing of one half of all currency paid into the treasury with no substitute being issued] (1884, pp. 9-10).

Joint resolution amendatory to the joint resolution regulating the title and privoleges of the native African representatives in the national legislature of this Republic approved January 8th 1881 [denying a seat to any delegate whose ethnic group does not pay designated taxes] (1884, p. 9).

An act [appropriating two thousand dollars annually for teacher salaries] for the establishment of high schools in each of the leeward counties [of Maryland, Sinoe and Grand Bassa, as preparatory sections of Liberia College] (1884, pp. 9-10).

An act amendatory to an act creating an interior department [urging, without penalties, that presents for interior chiefs not be misappropriated by interior department officials, ordering an annual inspection by the secretary of the department to ensure that interior roads remain open, and proposing a road to link coastal counties to each other and to the Barline and Mandingo countries] (1884, pp. 10-11).

Supplementary act to the existing acts incorporating the aboriginal tribes of the Republic [appointing two tax collectors per ethnic community — one Americo-Liberian, the other native] (1884, p. 11).

An act to relieve the citizens of the settlement of Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount, Montserrado County [ordering the procurement of small arms and munitions for defense] (1884, pp. 11-12).

A resolution compensating Chief Justice C.L. Parsons of Montserrado County [for an office he rented for the judicial department] (1884, p. 12).

An act authorizing the purchase of Steel Stamps and dates for the different post offices of this Republic (1884, p. 12).

Joint resolution authorizing the president to cause immediate peace between the Little Cess fishermen and the Battoo fisherman and reparation for the piratical destruction of the boat of W.E. Harris of Sinou County by the Little Cess fishermen off Timbo, and also to make an immediate demand for the Nanna Kroo Bonds (1884, p. 13).

An act authorizing the establishing of a settlement and a port of entry at San-Pedro the southeastern boundary of the Republic of Liberia in Maryland County and an additional port of entry in the county of Montserrado and of Sinou (1884, pp. 13-14).

Amendatory act to the act entitled an act regulating the liquor traffic approved January 9th 1883 [requiring payment of two thousand dollars annually for liquor license, with half going to the county into which the liquor is imported and fifty percent to the national government with an additional three hundred dollar wholesale fee and a one hundred dollar fee payable to the city of Monrovia] (1884, p.14).

An act adopting Caroline Charlotte Emmery, as adopted daughter of J.T. Emmery of the county of Montserrado (1884, p. 14).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1883-1884. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1884.

A resolution assisting the citizens of Lexington of Sinoe County in building a bridge and causeway through a swamp between Lexington and Farmersville (1883, p. 3).

A resolution authorizing [six thousand dollars for] the repairs of the old public mansion in the city of Monrovia (1883, p. 3).

Resolution compensating Stephen A. Hoff, jailor of Robertsport [sixty dollars for the use of his house] (1883, pp. 3-4).

An act of indemnity for loss of registered articles [in keeping with the provisions of article 6th of the Convention of Paris in June 1878 of the Universal Postal Union] (1883, p. 4).

An act supplementary to an act declaring certain days to be national holidays [declaring the second Friday of April to be “Fast and Prayer Day”] (1883, pp. 4-5).

Resolution of the senate and house of representatives of the Republic of Liberia exempting the C. Woermann’s line of mail steamers from tonnage dues in consideration of certain services to be rendered to the Republic by the said line of mail steamers [namely, transportation of all mail and commissioned officials of Liberia] (1883, p. 5).

An act to amend the laws granting retail license money to the several settlements (1883, p. 7).

An act amendatory and supplementary to the several existing acts regulating the payment of custom house duties and also amending the 4th section of an act for the relief of government, approved January 12th 1880, and repealing the law passed January 5th 1879 (1883, pp. 7-8).

Supplementary act to an act to increase the revenue (1883, pp. 8-9)
A resolution providing for the creation of bridges in Clay-Ashland [appropriating two hundred and fifty dollars] (1883, p. 9)
An act regulating the liquor traffic [requiring liquor importers to pay an annual license of two thousand dollars to each of the counties] (1883, pp. 9-10).

An act declaring it treason for any citizen of Liberia — naturalized, aborigines or Americo-Liberian — to be engaged in levying war against the Republic or in adhering to its enemies giving them aid and comfort (1883, pp. 10-11).

An act chartering the Union Mining Company of Liberia [granting up to two thousand acres for forty years to Henry J. Neyle (Grand Bassa), John W. Worrell (Grand Bassa), Alfred B. King (Montserrado), Charles T.O. King (Montserrado), William David Coleman (Monsterrado), D.M. Johnson (Maryland) and James M. Priest (Sinoe)] (1883, pp. 11-12).

An act to incorporate “The Liberia Interior Association” [allowing the association to lease land from government for ten years to farming and trading in the interior, naming A.L. Stanford, E.J. Barclay, W.H. King, J.A. Cuthbert, S.J. Campbell and J.R. Cooper] (1883, pp. 12-14).

A resolution authorizinf the president to build a gun house in the county of Maryland in the city of Harper [appropriating five hundred dollars for a stone gun house, plus six hundred dollars for completion of fortification at Jacksonville and five hundred dollars for completing fortification at Tubman Town] (1883, p. 14).

An act to incorporate the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Maryland County of Harper [naming E.W. Diggs, Charles McIntosh, J.W. Simpson, E.B. Cummings, Adam Barker, Richard Webster, Boston Moulton and A.B. Jackson] (1883, p. 14).

A resolution accepting the proffer of Telegraphic Communication in the Republic of Liberia [made known through James W. Shaw, consul general in England] (1883, p. 15).

A resolution [appropriating four hundred dollars for] assisting the citizens of Robertsport of Montserrado County in building a bridge and causeway through the swamp or creek between Krotown and the Old Garrison, and one by R.J.B. Watson’s residence also one between Jas. M. Strother and Charles Curtis place (1883, p. 15).

An additional act supplementing the several existing acts regulating the payment of the custom house duties and providing for the punishment of offending officers (1883, pp. 15-16).

An act regulating the duties of the several law officers of the government [offering district and county attorneys two and a half percent on the value of all stolen government property recovered through their efforts] (1883, pp. 16-17).

An act to incorporate the Farmers Joint Stock Raising and Trading Association [to modernize agriculture and further interior trade, naming Andrew Cartwright, George Moore, Samuel Barker, Joseph Ash, T. C. Lomax, Henry Chesson, William P. Chesson, Richard Newton, Julia Simpson and W.D. Coleman] (1883, pp. 18-19).

An act to incorporate the Union League Society of Arthington, Montserrado County [naming George Askie, S.R. Hoggard, Solomon York, James H. Rawlhac, McGilbert Lawrence, W.L. Askie, S.W. Askie, Robert Mitchell and W.L. Carter] (1883, p. 19).

A resolution fixing the day of adjournment of the Eighteenth Legislature 2nd Session (1883, p. 20).

A resolution to amend an act to encourage agriculture throughout the Republic of Liberia, approved January 18th 1883 (1883, p. 20).

A resolution making appropriation [of seven hundred and seventy-five dollars] to assist the citizens of Brewersville and the old field in the rear of Upper Caldwell to throw up the worst swamps and to bridge the running streams through them (1883, pp. 20-21).

A resolution amending a resolution of the legislature of Liberia, approved January 18th 1876 [authorizing the president to negotiate a defensive alliance with the United States] (1883, pp. 21-22).

Joint resolution in behalf of President Anthony William Gardner [appropriating one thousand dollars annuity, upon his retirement from the presidency] (1883, pp. 22-23).

A resolution appropriating an amount of five hundred dollars for opening and constructing a road between Harlandsville and Lower Buchanan in Bassa County (1883, p. 23).

Resolution authorizing the secretary of treasury to examine into the claim of Mrs. A.E. Roye [concerning one thousand dollars allegedly loaned to the government by her husband, E.F. Roye] (1883, p. 23).

An act for the relief of the settlements of Crozerville, Careysburg, Paynesville and Ammonsville in the Old Field Mesurado River [appropriating eleven hundred dollars for the construction of six bridges] (1883, pp. 23-24).

A resolution making appropriation [of three hundred dollars] for the opening of Findley Road in Grand Bassa County [rendered impassable by small creeks and swamps] (1883, p. 24).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1882-1883. Published by authority Monrovia: T.W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1883.

A joint resolution repealing the joint resolution of the senate and house of representatives approved January 17th 1880 [which authorizing the granting of letters of credit for loans] (1881, p. 3).

An act to incorporate St. Mark’s Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of Harper, Maryland County [naming Samuel D. Ferguson (pastor), James W. Ashton (senior warden), Joseph A. Gibson (vestryman), Francis O. Thorne (vestryman), Turner P. Stewart (vestryman) and Titlman T. Brewer (vestryman), all of Harper] (1881, pp. 3-4).

An act granting two hundred acres of land to the trustees of “All Saints Hall” in the county of Grand Bassa [naming as trustees: John H. B. Latrobe, Samuel G. Wyman, G. W. S. Hall, J. Noel Wyatt and Walter S. Cox] (1881, p. 4).

An act granting one hundred acres of land to the Presbyterian Church in Liberia (1881, p. 5).

An act incorporating the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Liberia [naming Santania Francis Flegler (traveling preacher), Samuel Jefferson Campbell (traveling preacher), Clement Irons (trustee and local preacher), Scott Bailey (trustee and local preacher), Rufus Clark (local preacher), Israel Moultry (trustee and local preacher), Pompey Green (trustee), Robert Monger (trustee), Thaddeus Middleton (trustee), Allen Brisbane (trustee), James D. Lyon (trustee), John Walkenough (trustee), James Wilson (trustee), Jackson Caldwell (trustee), Ellis Clark (trustee) and Charles Wilson (trustee)] (1881, p. 5).

Joint resolution regulating the title [changing from referee to delegate] and privilege of the native African representatives in the national legislature of this Republic [granting vote on native affairs and one hundred dollars per year plus travel expenses] (1881, p. 6).

An act incorporating the Farmersville Baptist Church of Sinoe County [naming as trustees: George Byng, Askelly Roberts and James Washington] (1881, p. 6).

An act to incorporate the First Baptist Church of Clay Ashland in Montserrado County [naming as deacons and trustees: Samuel Ricks, Sr., Henry Ricks, Presley Freeman, Albert J. Morris, Isaac J. Ash and Moses Ricks] (1881, p. 7).

Resolution for the rebuilding of the bridge and levee running from the settlement of Farmersville to the settlement of Lexington [appropriating eight hundred dollars] (1881, pp. 7-9).

An act to encourage agriculture throughout the Republic of Liberia [offering six dollars per hundred for between two and nine hundred cocoa seedlings planted and eight dollars per hundred for every ten or more hundred] (1881, pp. 8-9).

Resolution authorizing the repair of the big bridge between Mt. Vaughan and Mt. Tubman in Maryland County, also to erect a bridge and throw up a cause way between Latrobe and Hoffman Station (1881, p. 9).

Resolution for the relief of James T. Carroll, light house keeper, Harper [raising his pension from one hundred dollars, as incorrectly printed in last “Act,” to one hundred and eighty dollars, as was approved, and granting him eighty dollars as back pension] (1881, pp. 9-10).

An act to amend an act for the relief of government approved January 12th 1880 [ordering the submission of all checks and debentures against government within ninety days] (1881, p. 10).

An act requiring all missions and missionaries within this Republic to pay import and export dues (1881, p. 10).

[A resolution calling for a Constitutional Amendment lengthening the term of the president and vice president from two to four years as well as a referendum on relief for impeached persons, previous rejected by voters in May 1979] (1881, p. 11).

An act to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Church of Lower Caldwell Saint Paul’s River [naming Horatio B. Capehart (pastor), Isaac Lawrence (trustee), Francis T. Clark, Jr. (trustee), C. R. Sims (trustee), A. F. Travis (steward), Zeal Prichard (trustee) and James Bunyan (trustee)] (1881, p. 11-12).

An act to establish additional ports of entry in the several counties of this Republic (1881, pp. 12-14).

An act to amend the several acts regulating taxes and assessments on real property within this Republic [setting the tax rates for unimproved lots and ordering properties to be sold, if taxes are not paid] (1881, pp. 14-15).

An act incorporating the first Baptist Church of Greenville, Sinoe County [naming William Witherspoon (pastor) and, as deacons and trustees: Russell Minns, William Rice, James Barlon, F.A. Crawford and Iner Morris] (1881, p. 15).

An act to incorporate the Liberian Baptist Missionary Convention [naming J. J. Cheesman (president), W. F. Gibson (vice president), R. B. Richardson (recording secretary) and H. N. Boney (corresponding secretary and financial agent) (1881, p. 16).

An act incorporating the Shiloh Baptist Church [of Virginia, Montserrado County, naming John Sanders Washington (pastor) and, as deacons and trustees: James Roots, George H. Bailey, Sidney J. Washington, Lewis Capehart and Cornelius Minor] (1881, p. 16).

A joint resolution fixing the day of adjournment of the present session of the legislature (1881, p. 17).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1880-1881. Published by authority Monrovia: T.W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1881.

Joint resolution reviving the interior department and the act providing for the education and incorporation of the aborigines (1880, p. 3).

Resolution reimbursing [one hundred seventy six dollars and seventy five cents to] Lieutenant Commander J[ohn] S. Harris, L[iberian].N[avy] (1880, pp. 3-4).

A resolution reviving the charter of the city of Buchanan in the county of Grand Bassa (1880, p. 4).

Resolution restoring J. A. Neal and Major Tubman of Maryland County to citizenship and repealing the second section of the resolution approved January 22nd, 1870 for the relief of Cato Sims of Monsterrado (1880, pp. 4-5).

Resolution restricting the president to conform to a certain rule touching resignations of accounting officials of this government [requiring audits before resignations may be accepted] (1880, p. 5).

An act for the relief of the government [requiring payment of duties in gold, silver or copper coins and authorizing the secretary of the treasury to negotiate loans from local merchants and other citizens at eight percent interest (1880, pp. 5-7).

Supplementary act to the act for the relief of government (1880, pp. 7-8).

Joint resolution of thanks to the government of the United States of America and an expression of gratitude to Commodore R.W. Shufedt, U[nited] S[tates] N[avy, of the “Ticonderoga” for their role in the settlement of the northwest boundary, previously questioned by Britain] (1880, p. 8).

An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act establishing the judiciary and fixing the powers common to the several courts” (1880, pp. 9-10).

A resolution [providing one hundred dollars annually] for the special relief of Elizabeth A. Griggs, widow of the late Robert L. Griggs, of Grand Bassa County (1880, p. 10).

An act authorizing the secretary of treasury to enter into arrangements for the striking off [fifty thousand dollars] of currency and copper coin (1880, pp. 10-11).

A joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to grant letters of credit upon the treasury or sub-treasuries of this Republic for moneys borrowed under the act “An act for the relief of government” [making it a crime for officials to issue false letters of credit] (1880, p. 11).

An act to enable the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Republic of Liberia and its subordinate lodges to make, hold and convey real and personal estate [naming William M. Davis (grand master), Thomas G. Fuller (deputy grand mason), James B. Yates (senior grand warden) and Solomon C. Fuller (junior grand warden), at the national level; James E. Moore (master), James B. McGill (senior warden) and Gabriel D. Moore (junior warden), of the Oriental Lodge of Monrovia; George W. Dixon (senior warden) and Daniel Ware (junior warden) of Saint Paul’s Lodge of St. Paul’s River; Robert A.M. Deputie (master), William N. Williams (senior warden) and James J. Morris (junior warden) of the St. John’s Lodge of Monrovia; Jacob J. Ross (master), Jacob C. Franze (senior warden) and James N. Lewis (junior warden) of Excelsior Lodge, Sinoe County; Hamilton C. Russ (master) and Henry P. Hall (senior warden) of the Rising Sun Lodge of Grand Bassa County; and James M. Thompson (master), Daniel F. Wilson (senior warden) and Samuel D. Ferguson (junior warden) of the Morning Star Lodge, Harper, Maryland County] (1880, pp. 11-14).

Supplementary act to “An act for the relief of government [deeming it a misdemeanor for superintendents to make unappropriated withdrawal from the treasury] (1880, p. 14).

An act to repeal “An act to reduce the amount of paper currency now in circulation” approved February 7th, 1878 (1880, p. 15).

A resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to immediately pay over any and all monies now in his possession or in the treasury arising from the sale of produce paid on account of the one-tenth of the revenue set aside for the liquidation of foreign claims (1880, pp. 15-16).

Resolution authorizing the sale of the government vessel “Emmy” (1880, p. 16).

Resolution to authorize the board of trustee of Liberia College to remove said institution and establish [preparatory schools as] branches thereof in the counties (1880, pp. 16-17).

Resolution [authorizing payment of ninety six dollars annually] for the special relief of Richard Nelson [who lost both eyes while firing a national salute] (1880, p. 17).

Resolution authorizing the president to instruct the superintendent of Maryland County to select a suitable town lot for the use of the corporation of the city of Harper on which to erect a market house (1880, p. 17).

An act to amend an act entitled “An act amendatory and supplementary to an act regulating the payment of duties,” passed and approved January 5th 1879 [ordering that the ten percent revenue set-aside for foreign claims to paid in silver and gold coins, not produce} (1880, p. 18).

Joint resolution of thanks to the Liberian members of the mixed commission on the Liberian northwest boundary question [naming commissioners William M. Davis and John W. Worrell and secretary Alfred B. King, the latter two having died by this date] (1880, p. 18).

A joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to grant letters of credit upon the treasury or sub-treasuries of this republic for moneys borrowed under the act “An act for the relief of government” (1880, p. 19).

A joint resolution authorizing the secretary of state of the Republic of Liberia to solicit the kind offices of the United States of America as well as other nations with whom the Republic of Liberia is in treaty stipulations in reference to the northwestern boundary question [sending a copy of the Committee on Foreign Affairs report] (1880, p. 19).

An act providing for the restricting the payment of import and export duties in each county of this Republic (1880, p. 19-20?)****

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1879-1880. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1880. Page 20 (and beyond) marked **** is missing from the copy of the Acts used to compile this index.

Resolution recommending an amendment to the Constitution of Liberia [allowing persons impeached from office or convicted of high crimes to petition the legislature for restoration of citizenship rights after seven years] (1879, pp. 3-4).

A resolution tendering the thanks of the government and people of Liberia to Mr. Edward S. Morris for his devotedness and zeal in behalf of Liberia (1879, p. 4).

An act establishing and fixing an export duty on coffee scions and dried coffee (1879, pp. 4-5).

Resolution authorizing the secretary of state to have reprinted five hundred copies of the compiled Statute Laws of the Republic of Liberia [at a cost of one thousand and eight hundred dollars] (1879, p. 5).

An act for the relief of several citizens of Philadelphia, Maryland County, who have sustained the loss of their property and have been deprived of their town lots on account of the late Grebo War in the year 1875 (1879, pp. 5-6).

An act incorporating the first Presbyterian Church of Greenville in Sinoe County [naming Louis Sherman, Stephen J. Crayton, Jacob J. Ross, Gibson H. Montgomery and Rufus Kennedy (1879, pp. 6-7).

An act chartering the city of Harper in Maryland County (1879, pp. 7-9).

A resolution granting to Henry Charles Criswick and Robert Acton Burnell, both of London, England, the right to construct, at their own cost, a railway from Monrovia to Musardu (1879, pp. 9-10).

An act to create and incorporate a philanthropic order to be styled The Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption [and crediting Signoir Francisco Senmarti y’ Bruges with conceiving the Order] (1879, pp. 10-12).

An act amendatory and supplementary to an act regulating the payment of duties passed and approved February 8th, 1878 (1879, pp. 12-14).

Resolution authorizing the president to locate immigrants [in equal number in the various counties] (1879, p. 15).

Joint resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to negotiate with any merchant or merchants, foreign or Liberian, to pay the English Postage Claim (1879, p. 15).

Resolution providing for the payment of the species of money commonly called and known as debentures (1879, pp. 15-16).

Resolution to restore James Munroe Curd, John Hunter, George W. Hardy and others to citizenship [including John T. Emory, Lew Bowie, Lewis Hardy and Barth W. Morris] (1879, pp. 16-17).

An act granting to [Bassa Chief] Peter Herring an annual [one hundred dollar] stipend and establishing a school in the vicinity of his tribe and other tribes adjacent in the Bassa country in Grand Bassa County (1879, p. 17).

An act to repeal certain portions of the act authorizing specific duties on certain articles imported into the Republic of Liberia and the collection of the same and regulating the payment of duties on imports,” approved February 8th, 1878 (1879, pp. 17-19).

An act to amend an act establishing the judiciary and fixing the powers common to the several courts (1879, pp. 19-20).

An act making appropriation for the fiscal year commencing Oct. 1st A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Eight and ending September 30th, A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Nine [including salaries of civil servants] (1879, pp. 21-27).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1878-1879. Published by authority Monrovia: T.W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1879.

Joint resolution making appropriation [of four hundred dollars] for defraying the expenses of the inauguration of the president and vice president elect (1878, p. 3).

An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to repeal an act authorizing specific duties on certain articles imported into the Republic of Liberia and the collection of the same passed by two-third vote January 22nd, 1976 and regulating the payment of duties on imports” (1878, pp. 3-5).

A resolution for laying out and running off a road from the settlement of Fortsville to the Saint John’s River in Grand Bassa County (1878, pp. 5-6).

An act establishing the post office and a branch custom house at the second ward of Buchanan, commonly known as Lower Buchanan, Grand Bassa County (1878, pp. 6-7).

An act repealing an act amendatory to an act entitled “An act relating to divorces” [due to petitions from the people arguing that granting divorces for reasons other than adultery tends to “cultivate immorality and vice’] (1878, p. 8).

An act providing, permitting and regulating coastwise trade of foreigners in the county of Maryland, leeward of the Cavalla River in said county to San Pedro (1878, pp. 8-9).

Resolution suspending the payment of debentures, dutiable obligation or drafts upon custom houses (1878, pp. 10-11).

An act to amend an act entitled ”An act to amend the several existing acts regulating the militia” (1878, pp. 11-12).

Resolution [appropriating two hundred dollars annually] for the special relief of Edward Berry [who lost both his hands while firing a salute to the U.S. flag] (1878, pp. 12-23).

An act to reduce the amount of paper currency now in circulation (1878, p. 13).

An act amendatory and supplementary to an act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers approved January 27th, 1863 [providing each disabled soldier with a pension of fifty dollars; each commissioned officer (under the rank of major), sixty dollars; each commissioned officer (above the rank of major), seventy five dollars] (1878, pp. 13-14).

Resolution providing for the pay of commissioners to be appointed by the president to accompany the commissioners of the Liberia Exodus or other associations of the United States of America (1878, pp. 14-15).

An act to repeal so much of an act regulating the payment of tonnage dues by vessels which may casually visit a single port of entry within the Republic of Liberia (1878, p. 15).

An act making appropriations for the fiscal year commencing October 1st A.D., Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Seven and ending September 30th, A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Eight (1878, pp. 16-22).

Joint resolution removing Z. B. Roberts, judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas, Sinoe County [for allegedly bribing voters at the May 1877 biennial election (1878, p. 23).

Joint resolution removing John T. Richardson, judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas, Montserrado County, Republic of Liberia [for allegedly receiving a pension of sixteen hundred and eighty dollars on false pretense from Secretary of Treasury Benjamin Anderson] (1878, pp. 23-24).

[An act authorizing the president to employ one or more mineralogist at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars each plus expenses, to examine and exploit marble recently discovered in Bassa County] (1878, pp. 24-25).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1877-1878. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1878.

A resolution authorizing the president of the Republic of Liberia to interdict all of the native tribes in the county of Maryland, who are in rebellion to the Liberian government (1876, p. 4).

An act providing for the issuing of thirty thousand dollars in engraved bills and making the same a legal tender of the Republic of Liberia (1876, pp. 5-6).

An act to amend “An act authorizing the issuing of thirty thousand dollars engraved bills” passed during the present session of the legislature (1876, p. 6).

An act providing for the better protection of the aborigines living with the jurisdiction of the Republic of Liberia in the prosecution of lawful traffic and trade and in the disposal of the same to Liberian or foreign traders or merchants, also amending several laws regulating licenses (1876, pp. 6-7).

[An act to authorize the use of reasonable force by the president to rescue Captain F. A. Gross and Commissary R. L. Griggs, captured while fighting in Bassaw, Maryland County (1876, pp. 7-8).

A resolution authorizing the president of the Republic of Liberia to negiotiate a treaty of defensive alliance and protection with the United State government (1876, p. 8).

A resolution proposing sundry amendments to the Constitution of Liberia [extending the term of the president from two to four years, the representatives to four and senators to eight (1876, pp. 8-10).

An act incorporating and assimilating the Sinou native tribe, residing in the county of Sinou [appropriating three hundred dollars for surveying in connection with fulfilling the conditions of this act and authorizing the president to incorporate other groups desirous of similarly associating with the Republic without further legislative action (1876, pp. 10-13).

An act to amend the several existing acts regulating the militia (1876, pp. 13-17).

An act authorizing the government of Liberia to lease lands to foreigners (1876, p. 17).

An act supplementary and amendatory to “an act authorizing the government of Liberia to lease lands to foreigners,” passed during the present session (1876, p. 18).

An act to repeal ”An act authorizing specific duties on certain articles importing into the Republic of Liberia and collection of the same,” approved January twenty second, eighteen hundred and seventy (1870) and regulating the payment of duties on imports (1876, pp. 18-19).

An act of naturalization admitting aliens to become citizens of the Republic of Liberia (1876, pp. 20-21).

Resolution suspending the sixth section of “An act amendatory and supplementary to an act entitled an act establishing the treasury department,” approved February 3, 1873 (1876, p. 21).

Resolution authorizing the signing and issuing one hundred thousand dollars of old currency to meet the general expenses of government and the war in Maryland county and other points on the Liberian coast (1876, pp. 21-23).

An act authorizing and directing the post master general of the Republic of Liberia to remit all funds arising from foreign postage to the British Foreign Post Office (1876, p. 23).

Resolution fixing the day of adjournment of the first session of the fifteenth legislature of the Republic of Liberia (1876, pp. 23-24).

An act authorizing a loan of not less than ten million dollars [for developing interior agriculture and trade] (1876, pp. 24-27).

An act forbidding the importation and sale of firearms and munitions of warfare into the county of Maryland (1876, pp. 27-28).

Resolution authorizing the secretary of State to decline the invitation of U.S. government to take part in the centennial exhibition of 1876 (1876, p. 28).

Resolution authorizing the president to draw two hundred dollars for the expenses of the inauguration (1876, pp. 28-29).

Joint resolution of thanks to Consul-General Jackson and the donors in England who so generously gave supplies for the relief of Maryland (1876, p. 29).

An act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate The Liberian St. Paul’s River Steamboat and Tramway Company for the convenience of the citizens traveling and for the interior trade (1876, pp. 29-30).

An act divorcing W. M. Davis and his wife Fanny Davis, also James McMullen and his wife Rebecca McMullen (1876, pp. 30-31).

An act repealing the charter of the city of Greenville in Sinoe County [due to the instituting of oppressive laws] (1876, p. 31).

A resolution providing for the relief of James R. Moore, sub-treasurer of Grand Bassa County [providing four thousand five hundred dollars for outstanding claims against the Republic] (1876, p. 32).

An act making appropriations for the fiscal year commencing the first day of October, A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Five and ending the thirteenth day of September, A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Seventh Six [detailing salaries of all civil servants] (1876, pp. 33-39).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1875-1876. Published by authority Monrovia: T.W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1876. [Page three is missing, probably not copied, and, with it, the title of an act or resolution which begins there.]