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37th Congress · 1861–1863
H.R. 331
A Bill To authorize the banks of the District of Columbia to issue circulating notes of a less denomination than five…
House
Latest action: Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Mr. Calvert, from the Committee for the District of Colu… · March 5, 1862 Understand the measure
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Introduced
Read twice, ordered to be printed, and recommitted to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Mr. Calvert, from the Committee for the District of Columbia, reported the following bill: A Bill To authorize the banks of the District of Columbia to issue circulating notes of a less denomination than five dollars.
Recorded March 5, 1862, as the clerk wrote it
Official title
A Bill To authorize the banks of the District of Columbia to issue circulating notes of a less denomination than five dollars.
Recorded votes
None taken
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