punishment of crimes

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.

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.