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Presents the text of the decision in Ex Parte Garland, an 1867 Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of a federal law requiring public officials to swear an oath of allegiance to the United States. Background of the case; Decision reached; Reasons for the decision.

Presents the president's speech to the United States Congress on December 9, 1868, about his recommendation for the revaluation of public debt.

Opinion. Argues against impeaching United States President Andrew Johnson. The author as a United States senator; His defense of Johnson's conduct regarding alleged violations of the 1867 tenure-in-office act; Defense of Johnson against charges filed by the House of Representatives for the president's attempt to remove Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton; Why proviso was not applicable to Stanton's case.

Presents the text of United States President Andrew Johnson's veto of the 1866 Civil Rights Act. Provisions of the act; Reasons for his veto.

The article presents the text of the United States Civil Rights Act of 1866. The act says that, as enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, all persons born in the United States, excluding those subject to a foreign nation, are declared citizens of the United States. Such citizen, it says, of every race and color, regardless of previous slavery or servitude, shall have the same rights in every state and territory of the U.S. Section two states that any person who subjects another person to the deprivation of these rights shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to specified punishments. Sections three and four give the courts and law enforcement officials the right to arrest and try any person who offends this law. Sections five through ten further define the enforcement of this law.

Presents the text of United States President Andrew Johnson's veto of the 1867 Tenure of Office Act. Reasons for his veto; Belief that the act was unconstitutional.

Presents the text of an appropriations measure for the US Army for the year ending June 30, 1868, approved by the US Congress on March 2, 1867. Appropriations for arsenals and other military establishments; Other purposes of the measure, including settling the status of the Army's top officer, the general of the army.

Presents the proclamation by the president of the United States Andrew Johnson appointing William W. Holden as provisional governor of North Carolina on May 29, 1865. The appointment to restore civil government to the state following the Civil War; Holden's duty and authority as governor; Qualifications for choosing delegates, electors and for membership of a convention; Departments of the United States government to aid the provisional governor.

Presents the text of a Congressional law from 1868 which mandated an eight-hour workday for laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed by the United States government. Provisions of the law.