Research Topic

Government & Law

This topic appears in 111 indexed records between 1799 and 1976.
111 Indexed Records
1799 Earliest Record
1976 Latest Record
Harpers Ferry Strongest Location
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June 14, 2026

Act to Amend Shenandoah Toll-Bridge Incorporation

AN ACTTo amend an act to incorporate a company to construct a toll-bridge across the Shenandoah River, passed Jan. 17, 1829.(Passed Feb. 18, 1833) Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful […]
June 14, 2026

Irish Enforcement Bill Passage

Great excitement is occasioned, both in England and Ireland, at the passage, in the House of ords, of what is called the “Irish Enforcement Bill.”– It places discretionary power in the Lord Lieutenant, to disperse, by […]
June 14, 2026

Ireland/Britain/U.S.: Tyranny in Preservation of Union Measures

It is worth of note, that just about the time of the pendency of the “enforcing bill” in Congress, the British ministry introduced, and passed thro’ the House of Lords, a “bloody bill” for the pacification […]
June 14, 2026

The Irish Suppression Bill

Irish Suppression Bill.– The latest intelligence from England shows a probability amounting almost to certainty that this desperate expedient– which even many of its advocates acknowledge to be high-handed and unconstitutional– will receive the assent of […]
June 14, 2026

On the Reduction of Armory Wages

REDUCTION OF WAGES.We learn, with much regret, that peremptory orders have been received from the War Department, to reduce the wages of the artiz[s]ans employed in the Armory at Harpers-Ferry, twenty per cent.. This is a […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 24 records
1850s 15 records
1860s 12 records
1900s 8 records
1880s 8 records
1840s 7 records