Bills Vetoed by the President.
The following is a complete list of the bills vetoed by the President during the Thirty-ninth Congress, and of the bills which were passed over the veto, and those which became laws without the Presidential signature: First Session.—To enlarge the powers of the Freedmen’s Bureau; vetoed February 19, 1866. To protect all persons in the United States in their civil rights, and furnish the means of their vindication; vetoed and passed April 9, 1866, over veto. For the admission of the State of Colorado into the Union; vetoed May, 1866. To enable the New York and Montana Iron Mining and Manufacturing Company to purchase a certain amount of the public lands not now in market; vetoed June, 1866. To continue in force and to amend an act, entitled “An act to establish a bureau for the relief of freedmen and refugees, and for other purposes;” vetoed; passed July 16, 1866, over veto. For the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union; not signed; failed through the adjournment of Congress. Second Session.—To regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia; vetoed; passed January 8, 1867, over veto. To admit the State of Colorado into the Union; vetoed January 18, 1867. For the admission of the State of Nebraska into the Union; vetoed; passed February 9, 1867, over veto. To provide for the more efficient government of the insurrectionary States; vetoed; passed, March 2, 1867; over veto. To regulate the tenure of office; vetoed; passed, March 2, 1867, over veto. Bills which became laws without the President’s signature, the constitutional limit of ten days having expired without their return. To repeal section 13 of “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, and to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes,” approved July 17th, 1862; became a law January 22d, 1867. To regulate the franchise in the Territories of the United States; became a law January 31st, 1867. To regulate the duties of the Clerk of the House of Representatives in preparing for the organization of the House and for other purposes; became a law February 20, 1867. To declare the sense of an act entitled “An act to restrict the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims, and to provide for the payment of certain demands for quartermaster’s stores and subsistence supplies furnished to the army of the United States;” became a law February 22, 1867. Recapitulation.—Vetoes, 10; pocket vetoes, 1; laws passed over veto, 6; vetoes sustained, 4; became laws without signature, 4.