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  • Thumbnail for General Mining Act of 1872
    The General Mining Act of 1872 is a United States federal law that authorizes and governs prospecting and mining for economic minerals, such as gold,...
    29 KB (3,624 words) - 16:35, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Amnesty Act
    The Amnesty Act of 1872 is a United States federal law passed on May 22, 1872, which removed most of the penalties imposed on former Confederates by the...
    11 KB (948 words) - 22:13, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kidnapping in China
    least the 1980s, kidnapping has become a bigger issue than ever before in the country. Since the 1990s, tougher laws against kidnapping have been established...
    13 KB (1,414 words) - 02:02, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1872 United States presidential election
    The 1872 United States presidential election was the 22nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1872. Despite a split in the...
    59 KB (3,655 words) - 14:28, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sunnyside Sugar Plantation
    number of Acts of Parliament were introduced to protect the Islanders from unscrupulous recruiters and employers including the Kidnapping Act of 1872 and...
    49 KB (6,733 words) - 08:30, 5 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1872 United States elections
    The 1872 United States elections were held on November 5, electing the members of the 43rd United States Congress. The election took place during the...
    5 KB (299 words) - 20:52, 27 January 2023
  • of Ireland Act 1781 (21 & 22 Geo. 3. c. 16 (I)) was passed by the Parliament of Ireland, establishing the Bank of Ireland. On 25 June 1783, Bank of Ireland...
    46 KB (4,263 words) - 11:27, 14 August 2024
  • The Slave Kidnapping Act of 1866 was an act passed in the United States that punished a person who carried away another person, without their consent...
    1 KB (90 words) - 22:08, 1 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for 1872–73 United States House of Representatives elections
    The 1872–73 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 4, 1872, and April 7, 1873. Each...
    75 KB (1,240 words) - 21:53, 2 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1872
    this act by section 4 of this act. Section 1 of the Colonial Governors (Pensions) Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 29) authorised the citation of this act as...
    72 KB (1,258 words) - 14:12, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Penal Code (Singapore)
    number of these are created by other statutes such as the Arms Offences Act, Kidnapping Act, Misuse of Drugs Act and Vandalism Act. For most of the 19th...
    11 KB (1,338 words) - 18:44, 13 August 2024
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    Shanghaiing (category Kidnapping)
    of kidnapping people to serve as sailors by coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence. Those engaged in this form of kidnapping...
    20 KB (2,005 words) - 02:05, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Coinage Act of 1873
    Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of silver...
    50 KB (7,106 words) - 13:31, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for 1872–73 United States Senate elections
    The 1872–73 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states, coinciding with President Ulysses S. Grant's re-election. As these...
    51 KB (1,041 words) - 09:23, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comstock Act of 1873
    The Comstock Act is largely codified across title 18 of the United States Code and was enacted beginning in 1872 with the attachment of an extraneous...
    113 KB (12,405 words) - 21:36, 9 September 2024
  • Radical Republicans (category History of the Republican Party (United States))
    Reconstruction policies and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1871 into law. The Republicans split in 1872 over Grant's reelection, with the Liberal Republicans...
    50 KB (5,685 words) - 00:13, 12 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Criminal Tribes Act
    registered under the Act to prevent them from kidnapping children and/or engaging in sodomy. In reality, there was little official evidence of any gender non-conforming...
    53 KB (6,675 words) - 11:32, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Emmett Till Antilynching Act
    defined in section 2246 of this title) results from the offense, or if the offense includes kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse...
    16 KB (1,206 words) - 19:29, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Liberty Place
    charged in the action. This was the last major event of violence stemming from the disputed 1872 gubernatorial election, after which Democrat John McEnery...
    18 KB (1,945 words) - 21:03, 17 August 2024
  • The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 is a United States federal law enacted to break a cycle of debt during the Reconstruction following the American Civil...
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