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Summary Description Proclamation No. 1081 (19720921-PROC-1081-FM).pdf English: Proclamation No. 1081 PDF file on the Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines website, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on September 21, 1972
On February 9, 1841, the death of prominent early settler Ewing Young (1799-1841), – who left no last will and testament nor had any heirs in Oregon Country region – left the future of his property uncertain. [4] On February 17, missionary Jason Lee (1803-1845), chaired the first meeting organised to discuss the matter.
The Conkling letter addressed this directly and bluntly, defending the Emancipation Proclamation in no uncertain terms. In it, Lincoln wrote, "You say you will not fight to free negroes.
The British North America Act, 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 35), [1] also known as the Act of Union 1840, (French: Acte d’Union) was approved by Parliament in July 1840 and proclaimed February 10, 1841, in Montreal. [2] It abolished the legislatures of Lower Canada and Upper Canada and established a new political entity, the Province of Canada to ...
Armed forces led by William C. C. Claiborne took possession of the portion of West Florida west of the Pearl River, following a proclamation on October 27, 1810, by President James Madison to do so. The United States had considered the region part of the Louisiana Purchase , including the area which had revolted against Spanish Florida and ...
A group of Southern extremists, still not satisfied with the compromise, held two conventions in Nashville, Tennessee calling for secession, one during the summer of 1850 and the other late in the year, but by that point the Compromise had already passed through Congress and been accepted by the Southern states.
1850 United States: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 requires the return of escaped slaves to their owners regardless of the state they are in. Brazil: Eusébio de Queirós Law (Law 581 of 4 September 1850) criminalizing the maritime slave trade as piracy, and imposing other criminal sanctions on the importation of slaves (already banned in 1831 ...
Lincoln followed up on January 1, 1863 by formally issuing the final version of the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing that all slaves within the rebel states "are, and henceforward shall be free."