The bills are all from the 1st Session of the 38th Congress, and include: H.R. 51...A Bill To Establish a Bureau of [Emancipation,] Freedmen's Affairs... 6 pp. Jan. 13, 1864. * S. 99...A Bill to secure equality before the law in the courts of the United States...that in the courts of the United States there shall be no exclusion of any witness on account of color. 1 page. Feb. 29, 1864. * S. 45...A Bill to equalize the pay of soldiers in the United States Army. 2 pp. March 2, 1864. * H.R. 276...A Bill to secure to persons in the military of naval service of the United States homesteads on confiscated or forfeited estates in insurrectionary districts, and for other purposes. 7 pp. March 8, 1864. * S. 41. Ammendment...that when any person of African descent...shall be mustered into the military of the United States, his wife and child, if any he have, shall forever thereafter be free... 2 pp. March 15, 1864. * S. 188...A Bill to prohibit commerce in slaves among the several States, and the holding or transportation of human beings as property in any vessel within the jurisdiction of the national government. 2 pp. March 22, 1864. All are unbound.

Significant group of bills passed in the effort to bring the vision of Lincoln, as expressed in his Gettysburg Address and the Emancipation Proclomation, to fruition.