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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1870-1879

1873-1874

Resolution making an appropriation [of four hundred and fifty dollars] for the inauguration of the president and vice president, elect, of the Republic of Liberia (1874, p. 3).

An act authorizing the survey and construction of a cross-street on Public Farm Hill, Maryland County (1874, pp. 3-4).

An act fixing the salary of members [at four hundred dollars per year, plus fifteen cents per mile for travel to and from Monrovia] and officers of the legislature (1874, pp. 4-5).

A resolution authorizing the secretary of state to accept the invitation of the United States Government to cooperate in the international exhibition to be held in the city of Philadelphia, A.D. 1876, and the appointment of commissioners to the same (1874, pp. 5-6).

[Resolution establishing commissioners for relations with interior chiefs – one per the four leeward counties, each with an assistant and six baggage carriers (1874, pp. 6-10).

A resolution appropriating nine thousand one hundred sixty eight dollars and thirteen cents and directing the payment of the same to the government of the United States as the interest due that government on an amount for arms and munitions of war, and also for the appointment of a commissioner to proceed direct to Sierra Leone to adjust and make a final settlement of the indemnity bonds [worth eighteen thousand two hundred and seventy five dollars] held by the administrator of the British African Settlements at Sierra Leone, in favour of British subjects (1874, pp. 10-11).

A resolution providing for the revisal, compiling and printing of six hundred copies of the revised Statutes of Liberia [appropriates two hundreds for each of two lawyers who will examine the Statutes already compiled by H.W. Johnson, Jr., specifies that the Statutes be published in “small pica” in the United States and that two hundred copies be bound in calf at cost of fourteen hundred dollars] (1874, pp. 11-12).

Resolution authorizing the burning of useless moneys (1874, p. 12).

An act to incorporate the Union Missionary Society of the county of Grand Bassa (naming James S. Smith, M. D., D. F. Smith, J. L. Crusoe, Joseph J. Blyden, Anthony W. Gardner, Charles Clinton, John H. Clinton, H. L. Crusoe, J. J. Cheeseman, James M. Horace, W. Brumskine and Samuel Strothers Herring) (1874, pp. 12-13).

Resolution providing one hundred acres of public lands to S[amuel] S[trothers] Herring, introducer of the palm kernel trade, as a premium (1872, pp. 13-14).

Resolution restoring Winder A. Harris of the town of Edina, Grand Bassa County, to citizenship (1876, p. 15).

Resolution restoring William H. Hill of New Georgia to military franchise (1874, p. 15).

An act making appropriation for the fiscal year commencing the first day of October, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Three, and ending the thirteenth day of September, Eighteen Hundred and Seventy Four [Sets appropriation at one hundred forty four thousand and one hundred fifty six dollars and twenty nine cents and details the salaries of civil servants, from the presidents to “runners”] (1874, pp. 17-25).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1873-1874. Published by authority Monrovia: T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office, 1874. (Oversized initial letter are no longer used in each title. Compared to previous issue, type lines up more consistently, imprint shows sharper contrast with fewer, if any, typographical errors.)

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1870-1879

1872-1875

An act amendatory and supplementary to an act entitled an act establishing the treasury department (1873, pp. 3-8).

An act making provision for the payment of certain claims due by government (1872, p. 9).

An act regulating the pay of the president and vice president of the Republic of Liberia or other officer in case of the absence or disability of the president (1873, p. 10).

An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act relating to divorces” [allowing divorces for reasons other than adultery] (1873, p. 11).

An act authorizing the appointment of shipping masters at the several ports of entry in Liberia [Also establishing a one dollar tax for each worker shipped and imposing import duties on goods brought by returning workers] (1873, pp. 12-13).

An act repealing the charter of the City of Buchanan, Grand Bassa County [in response to petitions from residents against oppressive taxation and unconstitutional conduct by city officials] (1873, pp. 13-14).

An act regulating the payment of tonnage dues by vessels which may casually visit a single port of entry within the Republic of Liberia (1873, p. 14).

[A resolution authorizing the secretary of treasury to burn all defaced currency] (1873, pp. 14-15).

An act encouraging agriculture throughout the Republic of Liberia (1873, p. 15).

An act supplementary to the act entitled an act authorizing specific duties approved Feby. 22nd, 1870 (1873, p. 16).

An act regulating the working of prisoners [establishing country jailors are responsible for the supervising prisoners sentenced to hard labor and fixing compensation at thirty seven and a half cents per day] (1873, p. 16).

An act organizing a board of trade [also described as a bureau of commerce, with one sub-office each in Maryland, Sinoe and Grand Bassa (1873, pp. 17-19).

An act to incorporate Trinity Church in Monrovia [naming Garrison W. Gibson, rector; William M. Davis, warden; Martin H. Freeman, warden; James B. Yates, vestryman; H. R.W. Johnson, vestryman; and Charles B. Dunbar, vestryman] (1873, pp. 19-20).

Resolution authorizing the disposal of the remainder of the consignment of merchandise to the government per Brig “Town of Liverpool” [to be auctioned at market prices, with half of proceeds going to the national government and one-eighth each to Maryland, Sinoe, Grand Bassa and Montserrado] (1873, p. 20).

An act altering and amending an act entitled an act “Incorporating the Palm Grove Cemetery of Monrovia” [substituting C. B. Dunbar, H. W. Dennis and W. M. Davis instead of originally named board] (1873, pp. 21-22).

Joint resolution authorizing the printing of two hundred copies of the secretary of treasury’s report for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30th 1872 (1873, p. 22).

An act authorizing the president personally to visit Great Britain, in order finally to adjust and make settlement of all matters pertaining to the National Loan; to secure the services of a geologist and mineralogist to aid in the development of the resources of the country; to pay all legal foreign debts of the Republic, etc., etc. (1873, p. 22)**

Resolution authorizing the president to make an official visit abroad (1873, p. 22).

An act fixing the day of adjournment of the present session of the legislature (1873, p. 22).

An act for the relief of Geerge (sic.) W. Smith (1873, p. 23)
Resolution authorizing the president to grant valid deeds in lieu of certain invalid deeds executed by D.R. Fletcher of Maryland County (1873, p. 23).

An act divorcing Isaac C. Dickinson and Sarah E. Dickinson, Isaac Ostertag and Louisa Ostertag, Richard Kennedy and Patsey E. Kennedy, W. H. Buchanan and Levica Buchanan, David Gibson and Josephine Gibson, C. T. O. King and Nancy King, I. N. Turner and Henrietta Turner, Andrew Toliver and Cecilia Toliver, James Williams and Jame Williams, Abraham Shelton and Roas Shelton, George S. Woods and L. J. Woods, Andrew Hawkins and Mary Hawkins, Beverly Payne and Mary Payne, Robert Alphin and R. A. Alphin, J. D. Jones and Sarah Jones, John Norman and Lucy Norman, Henry Butler and Martha Butler, Peter White and Mary White (1873, p. 23).

Resolution granting L. K. Crocker of Little Bassa three hundred acres of land (1873, p. 23).

An act legitimizing James Martain (sic.) Moore, son of Jacob M. Moore, Jr. (1873, p. 23).

Resolution for the relief of Alexander Stubblefield of Montserrado County (1873, p. 23).

A resolution restoring Reuben Whitemore and Robert Hines of Sinou County to citizenship (1873, p. 23).

Resolution granting the citizens of Careysburg twenty five muskets or rifles and ammunition (1873, p. 23).

A resolution providing for the erection of a monument to the memory of Rev. S. J. Mills (1873, p. 23).

A resolution for the relief of John Marshall (1873, p. 23).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session of 1872-1873. Published by authority Monrovia: L. R. Leone, printer, “Republican Office,” 1873. (Features large initial letter in each title.) ** The “Acts passed by the legislature” (1873) gives titles without text for this and the next 12 acts and resolutions, all of which appear at the end of the book, suggesting that the printer ran out of paper or time for typesetting the body text of these acts and resolution. This expedient measure might have cost Leone his contract for printing legislative acts because, as of the following year, the “Acts” are published under the imprint of “T. W. Howard, printer, Government Printing Office.”

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1870-1879

1871-1872

A resolution ratifying the actions of the sovereign people of the Republic of Liberia in deposing Edward James Roye, fifth president of the Republic, for the reasons set forth in the manifesto of the executive committee of the provisional government and confirming all of their acts as set forth in said manifesto (1871, p. 3).

An act for temporarily lengthening the time of the December term of the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas for Montserrado County and especially extending the sitting of the same [to ensure speedy trial of Roye administration officials] (1871, pp. 3-4).

Resolution authorizing and directing the president of the Republic of Liberia to secure the service of a good and efficient physician and direct him to proceed at once to Maryland County for the purpose of assisting the physician of Maryland County in arresting the smallpox now rapidly spreading in said county (1871, pp. 4-5).

Resolution providing for the landing and safekeeping of the cargo of the ship “Town,” until otherwise ordered by the legislature[to be held by H.W. Dennis, lawyer, and Sherman and Dimery, merchants, as security until questions surrounding the Roye loan are settled] (1871, p. 5).

A resolution authorizing the appointment of a committee to arrange for the erection of a monument to the memory of Rev. S. J. Mills (1872, p. 6).

Resolution authorizing the sale of the government vessel “Liberia” (1872, p. 6).

[An act divorcing Reginald A. Sherman and Sarah L. Sherman and H. R.W. Johnson and Sarah V. Johnson] (1872, p. 7).

An act restoring George Kimmings of Harrisburg, Montserrado County, and Benjamin N. Bond of Grand Bassa County to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1872, p. 7).

[An act ratifying the loan contracted by Edward James Roye, H.W. Johnson, W.S. Anderson and D. Chinery in the name of the Republic] (1872, pp. 7-8).

[A resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to obtain a loan of six thousand dollars from Liberians to defray increased government costs resulting from overthrow of the Roye administration, especially the expenses of the police guards and the Court of Quarter Session (1872, pp. 8-9).

A resolution restoring James S. Payne, Jr., formerly captain of the company called the “Montserrado Regulars” to militia franchise (1872, p. 9).

[A resolution authorizing a five hundred dollar reward for information on twenty four thousand dollars missing from the loan contracted by former President Roye and his commissioners (1872, pp. 9-10).

An act to open a public road from Careysburg to the City of Monrovia [at the cost of five hundred dollars] (1872, pp. 10-11).

[An act authorizing the granting of two hundred acres of land to the New York State Colonization through its president H.M Schieffelin for the establishment of a Manual Labor Institute] (1872, p. 11).

An act to repeal an act entitled an act creating commissioners of internal revenue (1872, p. 12).

Joint resolution tendering the thanks of the legislature of Liberia to Messrs. R. A. Sherman, Charles B. Dunbar and Amos Herring and all the good citizens of Montserrado County, who performed service under the provisional government (1872, p. 12).

A resolution regulating and authorizing government printing [of the legislature and the Court of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas, Montserrado County, from the deposition of E. J. Roye to the inauguration of J. J. Roberts, at a cost of two thousand dollars] (1872, pp. 12-13).

Resolution authorizing the appointment of two commissioners in each of the counties of the Republic, to examine and adjust the public accounts (1872, pp. 13-14).

An act providing for the disposal of the consignment of merchandise to the government per Brig “Town of Liverpool” (1872, pp. 15-16).

Joint resolution of the senate and house of representatives of the Republic of Liberia upon the special communication of the president, on the state of affairs among the natives more or less under the dominion and rule of Farquaqua in Monstserrado County [and appropriating an additional six thousand dollars to enforce order on the highway to the interior] (1872, 16).

[A resolution authorizing an additional six hundred and fifty dollars for government printing, especially the journals of the recent treason and felony cases] (1872, p. 17).

A resolution authorizing the furnishing of the several departments of government with stamps (1872, p. 17).

Resolution appropriating seventy five dollars to Joseph H. Harmon of Maryland County (1872, p. 18).

Resolution showing the front boundary of the settlement of Crozierville (1872, p. 18).

A resolution restoring George Elias Titler [of Montserrado] and Elias Cooper [Maryland] to citizenship (1872, p. 18).

A resolution repealing the second and fifth sections of an act entitled an act to remove the county seat of Montserrado County to the township of Clay-Ashland, Saint Paul’s River (1872, p. 19).

[Resolution reimbursing the five days expenses to the secretary of the senate and representatives who had to come to the capital one month early due to the removal of the Roye government] (1872, p. 19).

A resolution fixing a day for adjournment of the present session of the legislature (1872, p. 20).

An act providing for the better regulation of the collection of the public revenue [making it a misdemeanor for any official to receive at the Custom House an species other than those approved by law (1872, pp. 20-21).

An act for the better carrying into effect the regulations of the towns and villages of this Republic [concerned particularly with election of commissioners and collection of property taxes] (1872, p. 22).

A resolution authorizing the president to grant the secretary of the treasury a warrant to issue or draw drafts on the remaining amount of money on deposit in England to the credit of Liberia from the loan (1872, p. 22).

Resolution to repair the government house in the city of Monrovia, known as the Representative Hall, and to build suitable houses required in the government square [at a cost of up to two thousand dollars] (1872, p. 22).

Resolution appropriating two thousand dollars for the traveling expenses of the president of the Republic of Liberia on the Liberian coast (1872, p. 22).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1871-1872. Published by authority by L. R. Leone, printer, Republican Office: Monrovia, 1872. (Features oversized initial letter in each title.).

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1870-1879

1870, December

An act authorizing specific duties on certain articles imported into the Republic of Liberia and the collection of the same (1870, pp. 3-4).

An act to repeal an act defining the payment of duties etc., etc. (1870, pp. 4-5).

An act incorporating the Palm Grove Cemetery Company of Monrovia [consisting of two acres opposite the public burial ground with Henry Wesley Dennis, Charles Benjamin Dunbar and William McCall Davis of Monrovia named as members of the corporation] (1870, pp. 5-6).

An act authorizing the negotiation of a loan [of three hundred thousand to five hundred thousand dollars in gold or silver coins, to be paid by a one dollar excise tax on each male citizen] (1870, pp. 6-7).

An act creating commissioner of internal revenue [to whom all tax collectors will report] (1870, p. 7),

An amendatory act to an act establishing the judiciary and fixing the powers common to the several courts (1870, p. 8).

An act declaring certain days to be national holidays [namely July 26 as Independence Day and the first Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day] (1870, p. 9-10).

Resolution ratifying the appointment of Honorable J. J. Roberts, Minister Plenipotentiary and also his negotiation for arms, munitions of war, etc., etc., and the distribution of the same in the leeward counties of this Republic (1870, pp. 10-11).

An act to remove the county seat to the township of Clay Ashland, St. Paul’s River [appropriating four thousand dollars for the construction of a county court house and jail in Clay Ashland and ordering the destruction of the building in Monrovia which to date housed the court house and Senate chamber (1870, pp. 11-12).

A resolution to amend the law regulating appeals and also the law defining certain crimes and relating to the punishment of crimes (1870, pp. 12-13).

A resolution authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay [two hundred and sixty two dollars to] Captain Andrew M. Jackson and other certain individuals being [fifty six] persons who at the call of the government volunteered their services for the defence of the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia (1870, p. 13).

A resolution declaring the opinion of the people on the Constitutional amendment [authorizing referendum on the first Tuesday of May, 1870] (1870, p. 13).

A joint resolution for the relief of the corporation of the city of Monrovia [authorizing the secretary of state to substitute for the city recorder in the local election] (1870, p. 14).

[A resolution authorizing the secretary of treasury to pay E. M. Morris three year’s interest in advance on money deposited in the treasury by her late husband, Edward] (1870, p. 14).

An act to set apart a piece of land known as Court House Square Buchanan, Grand Bassa County (1870, pp. 14-15).

A resolution for the relief of Cato Sims of Montserrado County [restoring hims to all the rights and privileges of citizenship] (1870, p. 15).

An act for the relief of the settlement of Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount (1870, pp. 15-16).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1869-1870. Published by authority Monrovia: Government Printing Office, 1870.

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1860-1869

1869, December

An act amending an act entitled an act amendatory to an act regulating fees [for jurors, sheriffs, constables and coroner’s jurymen] (1869, p. 3).

An act regulating the militia of the Republic of Liberia (1869, p. 3-5).

An act regulating the pay of officers, crew and mariners of the revenue cutter “Liberia” or any other revenue vessel belonging to government (1869, pp. 5-6).

[A resolution authorizing the secretary of treasury to pay A.F. Johns of Montserrado County one year’s interest at the legal rate of six percent on three thousand eight hundred and ninety nine dollars on vouchers issued to him by W.H. Lynch and Benjamin Anderson, former secretaries of treasury] (1869, pp. 6-7).

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 merchandize [meaning beef, pork, flour, pilot and navy bread from the United States and sugar, coffee, arrow-root and ginger from Liberia] (1869, p. 7).

An act providing for the revision and compilation of the statute laws of Liberia [by J. J. Roberts, based upon the Law Commentaries of Blackstone by Chitty and Wendal and the Revised Statutes of the State of New York, at the cost of fifteen hundred dollars, including printing] (1869, pp. 7-8).

[A resolution expressing thanks to the U.S. government for the Emancipation Proclamation, congratulations to enslaved African Americans upon their emancipation and thanks to God for the restoration of peace in the United States] (1869, p. 9).

A resolution to suppress the aboriginal difficulties existing in our northwestern boundaries, in the Gallinas Territory [providing for ten thousand dollars and between four hundred and five hundred Liberian militia to be sent, in response to an alleged request by Prince Bomboo to assist in the defense of his people and their allies, the Zaroh, the latter having recently emancipated themselves from domestic slavery under the Vey and Gallinas, from attacks by the Veys and Gallinas led by Prince Mannah] (1868, pp. 9-10).

An act proposing amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia [changing the term of senators from four to eight years and of the president and representatives from two to four years] (1869, pp. 10-11).

An act authorizing the removal of obstructions from the Marphar River and making appropriation [of fifty dollars] for same (1868, pp. 11-12).

An act creating an interior department (1869, pp. 12-15).

A resolution to be appended to the appropriation bill, authorizing the secretary of the treasury to draw debentures in favor of the president and vice president for the fiscal year ending September 30th 1869 in the same manner as is provided for the legislature (1869, pp. 15-16).

An act [providing forty-nine dollars and fifty cents each] for the relief of Joseph Blanchard [of Grand Bassa] and WIlliam H. Hill [Montserrado, both having been wounded in military service] (1869, pp. 16-17).

A joint resolution [allowing four hundred eighty one and seventy nine cents to be refunded by the treasury department, at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars and forty-five cents] for the relief of Lewis Barker [of Montserrado County, who came of age in 1858] (1869, p. 16).

An act supplementary to an act amendatory to an act entitled an act confining and restricting foreign vessels to ports of entry (1869, p. 17).

A resolution ordering the secretary of treasury to burn in the presence of the legislature all demand notes, scripts, checks, debentures and other evidences of money now belonging to the government (1869, p. 17).

An act to incorporate the Ladies First Mutual Relief Society of Cape Palmas [ naming Ann E. Dennis, president; Maria Dent, vice president; Mary A. Fletcher, treasurer; Sarah J. Simpson, secretary; Harriet E. Lee, assistant secretary; Charlotte F. Donaldson, chief manager; and managers: Mary A. Simpson, Julia A. Hance, Cecelia A. Hamilton, Mary A. Harris, Sarah Scotland, J.M. Thompson and Catherine Cooper] (1869, pp. 17-18).

An act amendatory and supplementary to an act defining the payment of duties (1869, pp. 18-19).

A resolution for the relief of [Hamburg-native] William Jantzen, esquire, consignee of the Barque “Bielefield” [refunding two hundred and twenty two dollars and twenty cents, representing duty paid at the Grand Bassa port on an ex post facto basis (1869, pp. 19-20).

Resolution to prevent judges and justices of the peace or any other officer entrusted with the administration of the laws of this Republic from issuing writs in civil cases against members of the legislature (1869, p. 20).

An act appropriating eighty dollars annually to and for the use of the [blind and destitute] widow of Hon. John H. Paxton, late senator of this Republic and of the county of Montserrado (1869, pp. 20-21)
A resolution restoring William Jackson and Ann Minor of Montserrado County and Alexander Jackson and Boston Dade of Maryland County to the rights and privileges of other good citizens of this Republic (1869, pp. 21).

An act encouraging mining in Liberia [by allowing Liberians to associate with foreign capitalists, mineralogists and miners in search of coal and other precious ores and fixing duty on exported ore at no more five percent on the dollar] (1869?, pp. 21-22).

Resolution requiring the secretary of the treasury to have his annual report printed before submitting it to the legislature (1869, pp. 22-23).

A resolution reimbursing Gilly Bunner [twelve hundred and forty-eight dollars deposited in the Liberian treasury by Bunner’s late mother, Tempy Brown] (1869, p. 23).

[Resolution directing the treasury secretary to pay J.C. Minor one hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty seven cents for services as judge of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Montserrado] (1869, pp. 23-24).

A resolution fixing the day for adjournment of the present session of the legislature (1869, p. 24).

An act regulating the contesting seats in the legislature and defining the duties of contestants (1869, pp. 24-27).

[An act regulating seamen and merchants, with sample contract to be signed by ship masters] (1869, pp. 27-33, 38).

[A resolution authorizing the president to appoint a commissioner of education for each county, to facilitate the incorporation of aborigines and the “upbuilding of this Negro nationality”] (1869, pp. 33-36).

An act regulating an act interdicting Settra Kroo (1869, pp. 36-37)
An act appropriating forty dollars annually to William Jumbo, a Krooman of Montserrado County (1869, p. 37).

Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during its session 1869 (u.p., u.d.).

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1860-1869

1867, December

A resolution restoring Peter Minor of Montserrado County to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1867, p. 3).

An act to increase the revenue [by increasing the duty from nine percent to twelve on transient sales, from twelve to fifteen percent on direct consignments and twenty-five to thirty-seven cents per gallon of imported liquors] (1867, pp. 3-5).

An act to amend an act to repeal part of an act laying an interdict upon the Kroo Countries [specifically Settra Kroo, Nanna Kroo, Little Kroo, King Wills Town and Warpee, in order to secure the return of Toe, the alleged murderer of James Douglass, a Sinoe resident] (1868, pp. 5-6).

An Act creating river pilots for the different rivers at the several ports of entry in the Republic of Liberia and defining the duties, fees and penalties of the same (1868, pp. 6-7).

A resolution absolving and restoring John O. Evans [Jr.] to citizenship (1868, pp. 7-8).

An act for the relief of Charles R. Johnson of Grand Bassa County, who was wounded in the Gatoomba War, in the early settlement of this Republic, and who has served his country for many years as a military officer [providing sixty dollars annually] (1868, p. 8)
An act divorcing Martha E. McKenzie and Lambert McKenzie (1868, p. 8).

Resolution removing the chief justice [Edward James Roye, for causing several judges to resign in protest of his “gross inconsistencies and legal outrages” in the case of the Schooner Phoebe Harris] (1868, p. 9).

An act defining the payment of duties, etc., etc. (1868, pp. 9-10).

An act to prevent the depreciation of government currency (1868, pp. 10-11).

An act regulating the city of Greenville [fixing the salaries of the mayor and City Court chairman at one dollar per day and reducing the number of council members from nine to five] (1868, p. 11).

An act for the relief of H. B. Matthews (of Montserrado County, providing forty dollars annually] (1868, p. 12).

An act granting a pension to J. T. Richardson of Montserrrado County (who had an arm broken in the 1840 Gatoomba War, providing sixty dollars annually).

An act authorizing the appointment of wharfingers at each of the ports of entry of this Republic and defining their duties (1868, pp. 12-13).

From Acts passed by the legislature of the Republic of Liberia during its session commencing December 1867. Published by authority, Monrovia: J. Adam Clarke, printer, 1868.

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1865, December

A resolution providing for the purchase of a steam vessel for revenue service and to abrogate the former resolution for that purpose (1863, pp. 5-6).

An act pertaining to bounty land (1863, pp. 6-7)An act supplementary to “An act authorizing the appointment of surveyors for each county and defining their duties” (1863, pp. 7-8).

An act authorizing the appointment of commissioners to select a site in the interior for the seat of government (1863, pp. 7-8).

An act divorcing Rebecca Overton and Edward Overton (1863, p. 8)
Act appropriating forty dollars annually to William Morris of the city of Monrovia (1863, p. 9).

An act mendatory to an act chartering the township of Edina (1862, p. 9).

A resolution extending “Printing Street” to Shepard’s Lake” in the county of Maryland (1863, p. 9).

A resolution to authorize the issue of an additional amount of engraved bills (1863, p. 10).

A resolution providing for the closing up the recaptured African business (1863, p. 10).

An act confining and restricting foreign vessels to ports of entry (1863, p. 11).

An act for the reservation of public lands (1863, pp. 11-12).

An act for the relief of military officers (1862, p. 12).

An act divorcing Jacob M. Moore and Ann M. Moore, his wife (1862, pp. 12-13).

An act to divorce Thomas E. Dillon and Elizabeth Dillon (1863, p. 13).

A resolution ratifying the treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the Republic of Liberia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands (1863, pp. 13-14).

An act amendatory to an “Act to regulate the militia” (1863, p. 14).

An act supplementary to an act creating post offices and post masters in each county of this Republic (1863, p. 14).

An act for the relief of James McCray [providing twenty-four dollars annually] (186?, p. 14-15).

A resolution restoring John Houston of Clay-Ashland to citizenship (1863, p. 15).

An act chartering the Union Mechanic Association of Monrovia [naming as founding members: Henry E. Fuller, Gaston Killian, Thomas Roe, R.A. Sherman, S.C. Fuller, John Fuller, Thomas G. Fuller, Beverly R. WIlson, Edward C. Brown, F.P. David, I. Brown, Robert Hill, Henry Underwood, Jesse Sharp, D.B. Warner, J.W. Hilton and G.H. Mason] (1863, p. 15-16).

An act authorizing the president to adopt measures for entering into friendly relations and holding regular official intercourse with the native tribes in the different counties (1863, p. 16-17).

An act inducing citizens of other parts of Liberia to emigrate to the counties of Maryland and Sinoe in Liberia (1864, pp. 17-18).

An act authorizing the president to employ the vessels or boats of citizens of Liberia in the service and commission officers for the same (1864, p. 18).

Resolution ratifying a treaty of “Amity, commerce and navigation” between the Republic of Liberia and his majesty the king of Sweden and Norway (1864, p. 19).

A resolution authorizing and providing [eleven hundred dollars] for furniture for the president’s mansion (1864, p. 19).

A resolution providing for and authorizing the repairs of the “Liberia Schooner Quail” (1864, p. 20).

An act repealing an act entitled an act amendatory to an act regulating the militia (1864, p. 20).

Resolution suspending for five years an act entitled an act providing for a National Fair (1864, pp. 20-21).

An act to authorize the secretary of the treasury to effect a loan of currency now in circulation to the amount of seventy five thousand dollars (1864, p. 21).

An act authorizing the president to settle two hundred recaptive Africans in Maryland County (186?, pp. 21-22).

An act amendatory to “An act authorizing the establishment of a uniform currency” (1864, pp. 22-23).

A resolution authorizing the president to reimburse J.T. Gibson superintendent of Maryland County for monies expended in purchasing stationary for the government of the Republic (186?, p. 23).

A resolution authorizing the Republic of Liberia to bear all expenses in connection with the burial of Senator St. James Gilchrist (186?, p. 23).

An act suspending that part of an act entitled an act granting Careysburg and Marshall respectively a Provisional Monthly Court (1864, p. 23).

A resolution to relieve Henry P. Taite of Montserrado County, an emigrant from the West Indies [providing Taite and family one hundred dollars and fifty acres of land] (1854 (sic.) [1864?], p. 24).

An act authorizing the president to adopt measures to encourage emigration to Liberia from the West India islands (1894 (sic.) [1864?], p. 24).

Resolution authorizing the president to adopt such measures as will best effect the purpose of placing the inhabitants of the county of Maryland and other portions of the Republic of Liberia permanently in the possession of their farm lands (1864, p. 25).

An act amending an act establishing the judiciary and fixing the powers common to the several courts and repealing portions of an act for the punishment of larceny (1864, p. 25).

Resolution authorizing the president to sign a sufficient amount of engraved bills to defray the entire expenses of the present session of the legislature (186?, pp. 25-26).

An act restoring Allen Brown, Elijah Dill, S.A. Campion, John A. Rolin [of Montserrado County] and others [Jacob Purvis of Grand Bassa; Sandy Coffe, Prince Kennedy and Charles Green of Sinoe; and Sandy Ross of Maryland] to citizenship (1864, p. 26).

An act restoring Gilbert Austin to citizenship (1864, p. 26).

An act chartering the Union Agricultural Enterprise Company of the St. Paul’s River [naming as founding members: Peter M. Page, David Carter, David Kelly, S. George, G.R. Brown, G.W. Dixon, Thomas Howland, G.W. Moore and A. Washington] (1864, pp. 26-27).

An act authorizing the clearing out [of] the creek and its tributaries known as Congoe Creek in Montserrado County also that part of the Poor River adjacent to Grand Butaw and Wyet Creek running from Sinoe River to Settra-Kroo in Sinoe County and a creek or river near Grand Bassa Point, Lower Buchannan, and constructing a bridge over Big Creek in Maryland County (1864, pp. 27-28).

An act divorcing John Luca and Sarah Luca, Urias A. McGill and Angeline E. McGill, R.R. Savage and Marion L. Savage, Samuel Powers and S.E. Powers (1864, p. 28).

An supplementary to an act entitled an act to encourage citizens of other parts of Liberia to settle in Maryland and Sinoe County (1864, p. 29).

An act amendatory to an act entitled an act regulating tax and licenses (1864, p. 29).

Resolution providing for the repairs of the senate chamber (1864, pp. 29-30).

An act for the relief of Francis Davis [providing twenty four dollars annually] (1864, p. 30).

An act restoring Laurina Goode to the rights, etc., of citizenship (1864, p. 30).

An act providing for the funding of the floating debt of the Republic of Liberia and for the redemption of the same(1865, pp. 30-33).

A resolution fixing the adjournment of the present session of the legislature (1864, p. 33).

An act making an appropriation [of fifteen thousand dollars] for the building of a revenue cutter [to be named “Palmas’] at Harper, Maryland County (1864, p. 34).

An act to promote the progress of the arts, manufactures, agriculture and commerce [allowing for the patenting of inventions and discoveries] (1864, pp. 34-37).

An act to authorize the secretary of treasury to destroy by burning all the checks and the defaced and otherwise damaged currency now in the treasury department and any other of that description that may in future be received (1864, p. 37).

A resolution for the relief of the several counties [providing fifteen thousand dollars for the hiring of foreign man-of wars to protect Sinoe and Grand Bassa counties] (1864, pp. 37-38).

Resolution for the survey of this line between Clay-Ashland and Virginia (1864, p. 38).

An act to incorporate the Carysburg Livestock Company [naming Armistead Miller, William H. Dennis, Moses Coleman, Philip E. Twine and Benjamin Hornsby as founding members] (1865, pp. 38-39).

An act providing [fifteen hundred dollars] for the erection of light houses in the counties of Grand Bassa and Sinou (1865, pp. 39-40).

A resolution for the relief of the government [providing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the purchase of lumber or timber] (1865, p. 40).

An act to amend an act entitled an act amendatory to an act to regulate the militia (1865, p. 41).

A memorial to the president to have adjusted the public accounts [ordering the establishment of a commission to examine and adjust the accounts of ex-secretary of treasury Anderson] (1865, pp. 41-42).

An act amendatory to an act entitled an act confining and restricting foreign vessels to “ports of entry” (186?, p. 42).

An act destroying by burning one half of the demand currency notes made payable in gold or silver coin by the treasury of Liberia and all checks, treasury script and other papers showing government indebtedness that have been redeemed by government up to December 31, 1865 (186?, pp. 43-45).

An act to prevent the further issue of treasury notes as are being now issued under the act providing for the funding of the floating debt of the Republic of Liberia and authorizing the issue of treasury notes of the Republic of Liberia and for the redemption of the same, approved January 2, 1864, and for the redemption of such notes already issued (1865, pp. 45-46).

An act to change the venue from one county to another in civil cases (186?, pp. 46-47).

An act supplementary to an act to amend an act regulating taxes and licenses (186?, pp. 47-48).

An act authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay certain individuals, citizens of Europe and the United States of America [paying three hundred and ninety three dollars and five cents to J.M. Harriott, Liverpool, England; one thousand dollars to James Hall, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; nine hundred and sixty dollars to C. Woormann, Hamburg; and one thousand dollars to Henry Muller] (186?, p. 48).

Acts passed during the session, December 1863,” Acts of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia passed during the sessions 1863-1865, inclusive. Monrovia: G. Killian, Printer, Liberia Herald Office, 1866 (Check this citation)

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1860-1869

1861, December

A resolution to authorize the issue of an additional amount of engraved bills (1861, p. 75).

An act divorcing Tristam Waters and Elizabeth Waters (1861, p. 75).

A special resolution for the relief of John W. Powell of the county of Grand Bassa [providing fifty dollars] (1861, p. 76).

An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act chartering the city of Buchanan” (1860, p. 76).

A resolution declaring the adoption of the amendment to the Constitution recommended by the legislature during the session of 1859-60 to allow the county of Maryland three representative (1861, p. 76-77).

Resolution to reimburse James C. Payne [sixty six dollars and forty two cents paid as an election penalty] (1861, p. 77).

An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act regulating deposits in the public treasury” (1860, p. 77).

An act chartering the township of Edina (1861, p. 77-79).

An act granting Careysburg and Marshall respectively a Provisional Monthly Court, also a Register’s Department at Careysburg (1861, p. 79).

An act regulating the payment of export duties and the deposit of the same in the several branches of the treasury (1860, pp. 79-80).

An act restoring Henry Hess, Samuel McKay, John Ellis Creek and others [i.e. Thomas Hoff, William McKay, Zip McKay, Robert White of Montserrado County; Louis Lowe, Lucinda Page, Charles Webb, George Holt, Benjamin Gordon, Elias Grant of Grand Bassa County; and Elvin Douglass of Sinoe County] (1860, p. 80).

An act authorizing the appointment of commissioners to select a site in the interior for the seat of government (1860, p. 80).

An act supplementary to an act authorizing the circulation of Copper coin and making the same a legal tender in this Republic (1860, p. 81).

An act providing for commissioners to enlist emigrants from the United States (1860, p. 81).

An act to prevent the setting of spring guns and spring knives [outlawing booby traps] (1860, p. 87).

An act supplementary to an act providing for the care and support of recaptured Africans [allowing for the apprenticing of adults as the previous act had provided for minors only] (1860, p. 87-88).

A resolution appropriating annually annually for the term of ten years the sum of three hundred dollars to the use and benefit of St. Mark’s Hospital (1860, p. 88).

A resolution suspending the operation of the second and third section of an act entitled “An act imposing additional duties on the importation of certain articles and levying and collecting additional tonnage duty on foreign ships and vessels” (1860, p. 88).

An act amendatory to an act entitled “An act regulating fees” [providing sixty cents per day for grand jury service and fifty cents for petit jurors] (1860, p. 88-89).

An act amendatory to an act providing for common schools [providing five thousand dollars annually] (1860, p. 84).

An act creating boarding officers in each of the ports of entry in this Republic, the port of Marshall excepted, and defining the duties of the same (1860, p. 84-86).

A resolution recommending the suspension of the National Fair provided by law, to be held in the county of Maryland in 1862 (1860, p. 86).

An act to amend and consolidate the several acts concerning Liberia College [naming as trustees: Alfred F. Russell, Beverly R. Wilson, Daniel B. Warner, Francis Payne, B.V. R. James, S. F. McGill, Francis Burns, Amos Herring, D.T. Harris and J. N. Lewis (for Montserrado County); J. S. Smith, S. S. Herring, C. L. de Randamie (Grand Bassa County); and J. M. Priest, Seborn Evans and H.B. Stewart (Sinoe County); J. T. Gibson, B. J. Drayton, R. S. McGill (Maryland County) and J. J. Roberts (President) (1860, p. 87-90).

An act requiring all deeds and conveyances of real estate to be probated and registered (1860, p. 90-91).

A resolution making appropriation of money with a view to develop the iron resources in the vicinity of Careysburg (1860, p. 92).

An act supplementary to the act entitled “An act providing for the care and support of recaptured Africans.

From Acts of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia passed during the sessions 1857-1861, inclusive. Monrovia: G. Killian, Printer, Liberia Herald Office, 1862

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1860-1869

1860, December

An act providing for the care and support of recaptured Africans (1860, p. 57-61).

An act authorizing the formation of an interior settlement at Nair Mountain in the county of Sinoe (1860, p. 61-63).

An act authorizing the formation of an interior settlement at Ghee’s Mountain in the county of Sinoe (1860, p. 63-65).

An act amendatory to an act entitled an act to amend “An act to regulate the militia” (1860, p. 65).

A resolution providing for the transcribing of the old colonial records of the Republic of Liberia (1860, p. 65-66).

An act imposing additional duties on the importation of certain articles and also for levying and collecting an additional tonnage duty on foreign ships and vessels and amendatory to an act entitled “Export duty bill” (1860, p. 66-67).

An act divorcing Georgianna M. and Jeremiah Hilliard (1860, p. 67).

A resolution authorizing the publishing [of three hundred copies at the cost of fifty dollars] of James L. Sims’ journal of travels to the interior of Liberia (1860, p. 67-68).

An act incorporating and chartering the city of Buchanan, Grand Bassa (1860, p. 68-70).

A resolution authorizing the suppression of the slave trade in Gallinas and its vicinity in the county of Montserrado [at the cost of up to ten thousand dollars] (1860, p. 70-71).

An act providing for the employment of an armed force to quell the rebellious movement of the Po-River or Naffaw tribe of Maryland County (1860, p. 71).

An act granting five acres of farm land, in addition to a town lot, to each immigrant of the settlement of Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount, in accordance with an act entitled “An act pertaining to the apportionment and improvement of lands” (1860, p. 71).

A special resolution for the relief of James R. Moore, sub-treasurer of Grand Bassa County [providing forty dollars to defray back rent for two years] (1860, p. 72).

A resolution concurring in the views and policy of the president of the Republic of Liberia, expressed in his correspondence on the question of recaptured Africans (1860, p. 72).

A resolution ratifying the compact between the American Colonization Society and the Republic of Liberia, in reference to recaptured Africans (1860, p. 72).

An act to amend an act entitled “An act defining certain crimes and relating to the punishment of crimes” (1860, p. 72-73).

A resolution restoring George W. Deadrick to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1860, p. 73).

A resolution restoring Joseph Rice of Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1860, p. 73).

A resolution granting five acres of land to the Ladies Benevolent Society of Maryland County (1860, p. 73).

A resolution authorizing the payment of John H. Chavers [three hundred dollars] for services as acting commissary [for Montserrado County from Oct. 1 1852 to October 1, 1858] (1860, p. 74).

From Acts of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia passed during the sessions 1857-1861, inclusive. Monrovia: G. Killian, Printer, Liberia Herald Office, 1862.

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1857-1859

1859, December

An act chartering the City of Monrovia (1859, p. 45-50).

An act approving and appropriating a certain amount of money assumed and expended by the president in arresting the small pox (1859, p. 45).

An act amendatory to the second article of an act, entitled an act establishing the boundaries of the Republic, and defining the boundaries of the several counties (1859, p. 50).

A resolution recommending an amendment to the Constitution [second section of the second article] (1859, p. 50).

An act authorizing the removal of the obstructions from the Mechlin river and making appropriations for the same (1859, p. 51).

An act amendatory and supplementary to an act incorporating Liberia College [moving the site from Clay Ashland to Monrovia and providing more seats on the board to Montserrado than other counties] (1859, p. 53).

An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to maintain peace and enforce order on the highways of the interior” (1859, p. 53).

A resolution granting to the Presbyterian Missionary Society in the county of Sinoe one hundred acres of land for mission purposes [with certificate to be granted in the name of James R. Amos and T. H. Amos] (1859, p. 54).

An act fixing the salary of the superintendent of Marshall (1859, p. 54-55).

An act making appropriation [of seventy-five dollars] for H. Underwood [for services to invalids afflicted with smallpox] (1859, p. 55).

From Acts of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia passed during the sessions 1857-1861, inclusive. Monrovia: G. Killian, Printer, Liberia Herald Office, 1862.

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1857-1859

1858, December

An act to amend an act entitled an act of duties on imports (1858, p. 17-18).

An act entitled an act to amend an act to regulate the militia (1858, p. 18-19).

An act to maintain peace an enforce order on the highways to the interior (1858, p. 19-20).

An act authorizing the clearing out of the Gracho Falls, Grand Bassa County (1858, p. 20-21).

An act authorizing the president to employ a Costa Guarda [naval vessel] (1858, p. 21).

An act [providing forty dollars annuity] for the relief of William Harris, Senior, of the county of Grand Bassa (1858, p. 21).

A resolution [providing twenty five dollars] to aid James Thomas of the Township of New Georgia (1858, p. 21-22).

An act to regulate taxes and licenses (1858, p. 22-23).

An act creating and defining the duties of the superintendents of the several counties (1858, p. 24-25).

Resolution approving of executive action in the “Regina Coeli” case [involving a French ship allegedly engaged in slave traffiking] (1858, p. 25).

An act prohibiting the enlistment of native African emigrants (1858, p. 25).

An act amendatory of the fourth article of the act regulating navigation, commerce and revenue (1858, p. 26).

An act to amend the fifth article of an act entitled “An act to establish the judiciary and fixing the powers common to the several courts’ (1858, p. 27).

Supplementary act to the “Act providing for the establishment of an interior settlement” (1858, p. 28.

An act amendatory of an act entitled “An act concerning elections” (1858, p. 29).

A resolution providing for the transcribing of the journals of the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Liberia (1858, p. 33).

A resolution [providing an annuity of twenty-five dollars quarterly] for the relief of David Banaker (1858, p. 34).

An act restoring J. Gearing to citizenship (1858, p. 34).

An act to provide for a state prison (1858, p. 31-32).

An act to raise the revenue [in the form of a loan of up to forty thousand dollars] and to encourage farmers (1858, p. 32-33).

An act establishing the Treasury Department and defining the duties of the same (1858, p. 34-37).

An act amendatory to the act entitled an act incorporating Liberia College, and the supplement thereto [naming Francis Burns, John Day, Daniel B. Warner, Francis Payne, Alfred F. Russell, Samuel F. McGill, Beverly R. Wilson, Amos Herring and B.V.R. James to the board of trustees and granting the College one thousand acres in each of the original four counties: Montserrado, Grand Bassa, Sinoe and Maryland] (1858, p. 37-38).

An act providing for a road from the St. Paul’s River to the settlement of Careysburg in the county of Montserrado (1858, p. 38).

An act divorcing John B[radberry] Jordan and Otillia Julien Jordan (1858, p. 39).

An act fixing the boundaries of the town of Robertsport (1858, p. 39).

An act providing for the pay of government interpretors [set at one dollar per day if employed by superintendents and courts of record or fifty cents per case in justice of the peace courts] (1858, p. 39-40).

A resolution providing for the payment of the militia of Sinoe County (1858, p. 40-41).

Resolution relieving the estate of Hon. R. E. Murray from claims against it by the Republic (1858, p. 41).

A resolution restoring Henry Roadman to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1858, p. 41).

An act incorporating a College (omitted in the compilation of 1856) [naming Alfred F. Russell, Samuel Benedict, Beverly R. Wilson, James B. McGill, Daniel B. Warner, Francis Payne, Amos Herring, B.V.R. James, D.T. Harris, H.M. Smith to the board of trustees and granting the College one hundred acres of land near Clay Ashland] (1858, p. 42-43).

From Acts of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia passed during the sessions 1857-1861, inclusive. Monrovia: G. Killian, Printer, Liberia Herald Office, 1862.

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Acts of the Liberian Legislature, 1857-1859

1857, December

An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act providing for a National Fair (1857 II, p. 3)*

An act for the punishment of larceny (1857 II, p. 3-4).

An act constituting and establishing a monthly and probate court and a register’s department at Robertsport (1857 II, p. 4-5).

An act providing for the repairs of public buildings in the county of Maryland (1857 II, p. 5).

[An act ordering the withdrawal and destruction of three hundred dollars or less in paper currency issued by Maryland in Africa and its replacement by an equal amount drawn upon the treasury of the Republic of Liberia (1857 II, p. 5-6).

An act regulating the enlistment and transportation of emigrants (1857 II, p. 6-7).

A preamble and resolution empowering the president to enforce a settlement of difficulties existing within the jurisdiction of this republic between the Naffaw and Padee native tribes, in the county of Maryland (1857 II, p. 7-8).

An act restoring Thornton Belton to the rights and privileges of citizenship (1857 II, p. 8).

An act providing for a National Fair (1857 II, p. 8-12).

A resolution providing for the issuing of two thousand dollars in engraved bills (1857 II, p. 12-13).

[A resolution expressing reservations concerning efforts by the American Colonization to recruit immigrants for Liberia] (1857 II, p. 12-13).

An act providing for the relief of Nancy A. Woodson [widow of Granville Woodson, killed in 1856 Sinoe war] and her child (1857 II, p. 13).

An act providing for auditors of the public accounts (1857 II, p. 13-14).

An act providing relief for Mrs. Rachel Perdue [widow of John Purdue, killed at Lexington, Sinoe in 1855] (1857 II, p. 14).

A resolution authorizing the second section, second article of the Constitution [concerning legislative representation, as applied to the newly incorporated Maryland County to be laid before the Supreme Court for its decision (1857 II, p. 14-).

A resolution to remunerate J. J. Roberts, commissioner to France (1857 II, p. 14-15).

Resolution authorizing the clearing out of the narrows at the head of the northern branch of the Junk River (1857 II, p. 15),

A resolution to acknowledge favors conferred upon this government by Her Britannic Majesty’s government [in the form of a promise to repair the Liberian government-owned schooner “Lark”] (1857 II, p. 15-16).

Acts of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia passed during the session commencing in December 1857. Monrovia: Printed by G. Killian, 1858, except for Act marked *, which was found in “Acts passed during the session, December 1857,” Acts of the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia passed during the sessions 1857-1861, inclusive. Monrovia: G. Killian, Printer, Liberia Herald Office, 1862.