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The United States Statutes at Large is the collection of every law, public and private, ever enacted by the Congress, published in order of the date of its passage. These laws are codified every six years in the United States Code, but the Statutes at Large remains the official source of legislation.
Acts of Congress. Below is a list of each law passed by the U.S. Congress as found in the U.S. Statutes at Large. The laws are organized by session of Congress, with a notation of which volume of the Statutes at Large they are found in.
The Act of April 16, 1862 [4] made all white men, 18 to 35 years old, available for military service during three years. The one-year volunteers saw their enlistment period extended with two years. The draft would be administered by the Confederate Secretary of War who would establish draft quotas for the several states of the Confederacy. On September 27, 1862, [5] the Congress extended the ...
November 8, 1864: President Abraham Lincoln is reelected, defeating George McClellan. The Confederacy fielded armies and sustained the rebellion into a second Congress, but the Union did not accept secession and secessionists were not eligible for Congress.
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The Senate passed the amendment in April 1864, settling on language with bipartisan appeal. The House then rejected it. Following battlefield victories and Lincoln’s reelection, Congress reconsidered, approving it in January 1865.
The story of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the national banking system begins in 1863, when the National Currency Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
April 8, 1864: The Senate passed the Thirteenth Amendment by a vote of 38 to 6. July 2, 1864: Congress passed the Wade-Davis bill, Congress’s plan for reconstruction of the South. It was pocket vetoed by President Lincoln two days later. October 31, 1864: Nevada became the 36th state.
