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Box 1 – Special Reserve

Constitution

Constitution of the Republic of Liberia as Amended Through May 1955

Amendments received by Project subsequent to May 8, 1972 (Two) – President’s Term in

Office; Article V, Section 5

Index and Background Documentation

Pamphlet – Constitution, Government, and Digest of the Laws of Liberia (May 23, 1825)

Cumulative Index, Vol. 1-16 (1968)

Cumulative Index, Vol. 1-16 (1969)

Civil Procedure Law – Title I

Background and Summary of Proposed New Civil Procedure Law

Statues and Comments [Chs, 9,11,13,&16] – Sent to Liberia to be reconsidered by

Liberian Commission (Sept. 4 – Oct., 1962)

Comments: New material for consideration by Liberian Commission [Chs. 7, 21-26,41-

45,51,52,61-65] (Sept. 4 – Oct. 1962)

Statutes: New material for consideration by Liberian Commission (Sept. 4 – Oct., 1962)

Statutes: Commission Meeting, Ithaca, NY (Nov. 6, 1961)

1961 Material revised for 1962 meeting with Liberia Commission (Sept. 4 – Oct. 1962)

(2 copies)

Comments: Commission Meeting, Ithaca, NY (Nov. 6, 1961) (2 copies)

Commission (Proposed) to Study Civil Procedure Act (1961)

Commission – Civil Procedure Law (Sept. 4 – Oct. 5, 1962)

Comments on Civil Procedure Law, Folders 1-3

Title 6: Civil Procedure Law with Contents [Chapters 1-15)

Title 6: Civil Procedure Law with Contents [Chapters 16-30]

Chapter 64: Arbitration

Table of Contents (September 1962)

An Act to Amend the Civil Procedure Law in Relation to the Mentally Disabled and

Incompetents, Subchapter F: Draft (November 1967)

An Act to Amend the Civil Procedure Law in Relation to the Mentally Disabled and

Incompetents, Subchapter F (August 1968)

An Act to Amend the Civil Procedure Law to Provide a Procedure for Changing the

Name of an Individual; with comments (August 7, 1968)

An Act to Amend the Civil Procedure Law to Provide a Procedure for Changing the

Name of an Individual (December 1967)


Civil Procedure Law cont.

An Act Amending the Civil Procedure Law with Regard to Quo Warranto Proceedings

(15 copies)

Criminal Procedure Law

Rules of Criminal Procedure for the Courts of the Republic of Liberia Effective……,

19…

Title 8: Criminal Procedure with contents

Agricultural Law

Title 3: Agricultural Law, Index and Act

Agricultural and Cooperative Development Bank

Title 3: Agricultural Law (November 1971)

Title 2: Agricultural Law (working copy)

An Act Adopting a New Agriculture Law, Approved February 15, 1973, Monrovia

An Act Adopting a New Agriculture Law, Approved February 15, 1973, Monrovia

(Printing copy)

Aliens and Nationality Law

Title 4: Aliens and Nationality Law and Index, June 7, 1968

An Act to Amend the Alien Mortgage Guaranty Act, Approved March 21, 1958,

Monrovia

Title 4: Aliens and Nationality Law

An Act Adopting a New Aliens and Nationality Law, Approved May 15, 1973 with

Amendments Approved May 9, 1974, Monrovia

Amendment and Interpretation of Section 21.39 – Correspondence on the subject:

Nationality of the Married Woman in Liberia (1974)

Title 4: Aliens and Nationality Law (edited for printing) (June 1968)

Associations Law

Title 6: Associations Law and Index (June 1973)

An Act Adopting a New Associations Law (Title 5) (June 1975)

Associations Law – Title 5 of the Liberian Code of Laws Revised 1976 (Printed by The

International Trust Company of Liberia)

Liberian Code of Laws Revised 1976 – Business Corporations Act (booklet)

Title 5 Associations Law – Index

Title 4 Associations Law (working copy)

Banking Law

Title 5 Banking and Insurance Law (working copy)

Draft of Proposed Title 6 – Banking Statutes, August 1969

An Act Adopting a New Banking Law, Amending a Section of the Association Law and

in the Alternative Repealing Said Sections and Terminating the Corporate Existence of

the National Bank of Liberia (attached to a copy of Title 6 Banking Law, 1972)

Title 6 Banking Law

Banking Law (containing comments, various amendments, and the law itself)

Title 6: An Act to Authorize the Establishment of a National Bank of Liberia, Approved

May 27, 1974 Monrovia; Financial Institutions Act, Approved June 18, 1974, Monrovia;

An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of an Act to Authorize the Establishment of the

National Bank of Liberia, Approved May 27, 1974, Moravia; An Act to Amend Various

Provisions of the Financial Institutions Act, Approved June 7, 1978; An Act to Amend

Chapter 64 of the New Executive Law with Respect to the Liberian Bank for Industrial

Development and Investment, Approved Sept. 13, 1974, Monrovia; An Act to Amend the

New Executive Law to Create an Agricultural and Co-Operative Development Bank,

Approved November 1, 1976.

Banking Law – Part I - National Bank of Liberia (May 27, 1974, Amended Nov. 7, 1977)

Banking Law – Part III, Chapter 2 (two working copies)

An Act to Amend the New Executive Law to Create an Agricultural and Co-Operative

Development Bank, Approved November 1, 1976, Monrovia – 2 working copies of the

Amendment and letter dated January 10, 1978 to the Minister of Justice of Liberia, Mr.

Alfonso F. Dormu

Banking Law – Part III – Agricultural Credit Corporation (The Corporation had been

dissolved and functions taken over the Agricultural and Cooperative Development Bank)

– See April 30, 1979 letter of Flemister (2 copies of the letter and 2 copies of the Chapter

23 Agricultural Credit Cooperation)

Banking Law – Chapter 22, National Housing and Savings Bank (L. 1971-72, Ch. XII,

Amended Nov. 1, 1976)

Title 6 – Banking Law (edited for printing)

Title 6 – Banking Law Index

Commercial and Banking Law – Part II – Commercial and Bankruptcy Law –

Bankruptcy (February 1970)

Commercial and Banking Law – Part II – Commercial and Bankruptcy Law –

Bankruptcy; Part III – Fraudulent Conveyances; Part IV – Contracts (July 1971)


Commercial and Bankruptcy Law

Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Index – Part 1, Commercial Code (2 copies)

Title 7—Commercial and Bankruptcy Law

Commercial and Bankruptcy Law, Part I—Commercial Code (March 1970)

Title 6—Banking Law, Statutes 2/25/1971; An Act Adopting a New Banking Law,

Amending a Section of the Association Law and in the Alternative Repealing Said

Section and Terminating the Corporate Existence of the National Bank of Liberia

Liberian Commercial Code

An Act to Amend Chapter 31 of Title 15 of the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956 to

Provide for Involuntary Bankruptcy Proceedings.

Commercial and Bankruptcy Law (With notes: ―final draft to be sent to leg. NB. This

copy to be used for printers ms.‖)

Title 7 Commercial Law, working copy

Decedents Estates Law

Title 8 Decedents Estates Law and Index

An Act Adopting a New Decedents Estates Law Including a Probate Court Procedure

Code (July 12, 1971)

Title 8 Decedents Estates Law with notes Approved: May 26, 1972

Decedents Estates Law - Part I: Law of Wills & Intestate Succession and Part II: Probate

Court Procedure Code (With notes: ―Only pages changed by Legis from our draft. See

Garnett letter attached‖)

Title 9 Decedents Estates, working copy

Domestic Relations Law

Title 9 Domestic Relations Law (1 published copy, 1 copy edited for printing and Index)

Title 10 Domestic Relations, working copy

Domestic Relations Law (2 copies)

An Act Adopting a New Domestic Relations Law and Index (January 1972)

Education Law

Title 10 Education Law and Index (October 1967)

Title 10 Education Law (no index) (October 1967)

Title 10 Education Law – Draft and Comments (October 1967)

Comments on Proposed Amendments to the Education Law; An Act to Amend the

Provisions of the Education Law; An Act Adopting a New Education Law

Title 11 Education Law (working copy)

Title 10 Education Law (With note: ―Copy used in meeting with Justice attys. Feb. March

1977)

Education Law (With notes: ―Draft of proposed amend to education L.‖, ― Copy sent to

Mr. Dormu. See letter to him of Jan. 10, 1978‖)

Box 4- Special Reserve

Election Law

Title 11 Election Law (2 draft copies) (With note: never enacted)

Title 11 Election Law (3 copies)

Title 11 Election Law (Feb. 1970)

Title 12 Election Law (working copy)

An Act Adopting a New Election Law (3 copies)

Executive Law

An Act Adopting a New Executive Law, Repealing the Present Executive Law and

Public Welfare Law, and Amending or Repealing Other Acts in Relation Thereto (3

copies); Index to Executive Law (2 folders)

An Act to Amend the Executive Law to Establish a Bureau of Child Welfare (January 31,

1969)

An Act to Amend the Executive Law to Empower the Head of a Ministry or Independent

Agency in the Executive Branch to Fix Fees for Performing Administrative Services. (16

copies)

Executive Law – Comments on Various Chapters (August 1967)

Executive Law - Official Copy with Amendments (May 11, 1972) (With notes: ―Use for

publication‖ and ―Sent from Liberia as official publication.‖)

Executive Law – Official Copy with Amendments

Various Acts: An Act to Amend the Executive Law to Provide for the Protection of

Historical Monuments and to Regulate the Exportation of Rare Objects of Art from the

Republic (approved July 19, 1973); An Act to Amend Chapter 34 of the Executive Law

with Respect to the Ministry of Labour and Youth and to Repeal Chapter 61 of the

Executive Law Establishing the National Sports and Athletic Commission (approved July

19, 1973); An Act Fixing the Salary of the President of the Republic of Liberia (approved

July 8, 1975); An Act to Establish the National Research Institute (approved May 20,

1975)

Executive Law (With note dated Aug. 9, 1997: ―Ready for printer except for

amendments")

Title 13 Executive Law with contents (chapters 1-16) (working copy)

Title 13 Executive Law with contents (chapters 17-37) (working copy)

Foreign Relations Law

An Act Adopting a New Foreign Relations Law and Amending the Penal Law with

Reference to Crimes Affecting Foreign Relations (4 copies)

Various acts: An Act to Approve the Executive Order Issued by the President of Liberia

on Dec. 24, 1976 Extending the Territorial Sea of Liberia to 200 Miles; An Act to

Establish the Continental Shelf Contiguous to Liberian Territory as a Part of the Territory

of the Republic of Liberia (approved June 24, 1968); An Act to Amend the Revenue and

Finance Law with Respect to Collection of Consular Fee and Amount Payable to

Honourary Consuls (approved June 2, 1967); An Act to Amend the Executive Law to

Provide for the Retirement of Foreign Service Officers (approved Jan. 30 1973)

Title 13 Foreign Relations Law (2 copies) (January 1968)

Title 14 Foreign Relations Law (working copy)

General Business Law

Title 14 General Business Law and Index

An Act Adopting a New General Business Law, Repealing Certain Acts Related Thereto,

and Transferring to the Commercial Law the Fraudulent Conveyance Act and Act

Providing for Involuntary Bankruptcy Proceedings

General Business Law with comments and questions

New General Business Law (working copy) (With notes: ―Use for Printing‖ and ―Text

and footnotes checked & ready for printing July 27, 1979, unless more amendments

received after that date,‖ and ―Index has been completed to July, 1979‖ but there is no

index in this folder.)

Title 14 - An Act Adopting a New General Business Law, Approved June 27, 1973; An

Act to Amend Section 500 and 501 of the General Business Law with Respect to Usury

General Business Law, Subsequent Amendments Incorporated in Copy Edited for

Printing: An Act Amending the Investment Incentive Code of the Republic of Liberia,

approved March 6, 1973; An Act to Amend Section 500 and 501 of the General Business

Law with Respect to Usury approved March 6, 1975 (stapled to this are two pages from

The Liberia Official Gazette, one from Friday, April 18, 1975 announcing the Usury Act

and one from Tuesday, August 6, 1975 announcing minimum rates of interest from the

National Bank of Liberia); An Act Adopting the Investment Incentive Code of the

Republic of Liberia, April 15, 1966; An Act to Establish Greenwich Mean Time as the

Official Time of the Republic of Liberia, approved January 4, 1972; An Act to Amend

Chapter 31 of Title 15 of the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956 to Provide for Involuntary

Bankruptcy Proceeding, approved 4/17/1967; An Act to Amend the Commerce and

Industries Registration Laws with Respect to Registration Fees, approved April 22, 1971

with note ―Superseded;‖ and An Act to Amend the Commerce and Industries Registration

Laws with Respect to Registration Fees, approved February 26, 1973 (With notes:

―Superseded by General Business L. enacted June, 1973,‖ ―In printing amend para. 3 or

sec. 4.3 as herein published---Also use 71 version for prior leg‖)

Title 15, General Business Law (working copy)

General Construction Law

An Act to Amend the General Construction Law with Reference to the Construction of

Particular Words (Nov. 27, 1962); An Act Adopting a Civil Procedure Law and

Amending Other Titles of the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956 in Conformity Therewith

An Act Adopting a New Construction Law; Title 15 General Construction Law and Index

General Construction Law (Dec. 1970) (With adopting act, comments, and letter to Dr.

Konvitz from Ministry of Justice in Monrovia)

Title 15 General Construction Law – Index

Title 16 General Construction Law (working copy)

Insurance Law

Title 16 Insurance Law with Index

An Act Adopting an Insurance Law (March 7, 1973) (2 copies)

Title 16 Insurance Law (With notes: ―Use for printing‖ and ―For Printing – Insurance –

Xerox pages with our copy. See letter stating these were only changes made by leg.

Letter to Dr. K of 8/23/73 from Simpson. For printing. Change designation of Secretary

etc. to Minister. Approved 1973‖)

Title Insurance Law – Index


Judiciary Law

An Act Adopting a New Judiciary Law, Repealing the Present Judiciary Law and Other

Acts in Relation Thereto (Jan. 31, 1969) (6 copies); Title 17 Judiciary Law (Jan. 1969)

Judiciary Law (3 copies) (Jan. 1968)

Title 17 Judiciary Law (With note: ―As originally published‖) (Jan. 1969)

Judiciary Law (working copy) (approved May 10, 1972) (With notes on folder: ―Revised

with subsequent Amendments‖ and ―add new theft court.‖)

Judiciary Research, Amendments and proposed amendments copies

Title 18 Judiciary Law (working copy)

Labor Practices Law

An Act to Amend the Labor Practices Law in Relation to the Rights and Duties of Labor

Organization and the Members Thereof (With note on folder ―File copy, M.R. Konvitz)

An Act to Amend the Labor Law in Relation to the Rights and Duties of Labor

Organizations and the Members Thereof (working copy)

Memorandum: Labor Practices Law; Rights and Duties of Organizations, etx. S.

Rosenzweig (Jan. 21, 1963)

Labor Practices Law, Workmen’s Compensation

An Act to Amend the Aborigines Law, Public Works Law, and Labor Practices Law with

Regard to Recruitment of Labor (8 copies)

Labor Practices Law – Comments (February 1960)

Labor Practices Law –Preliminary mimeo (April, 1960). Included also are comments and

Memorandum regarding section 1512(5).

Labor Practices Law –Preliminary mimeo (April, 1960)

Labor Practices Law (April, 1960) (Folder labeled ―Lane’s copy.‖ It contains the working

copy and a couple of notes from Prof. Konvitz attached to certain pages.)

Labor Practices Law (May 1960) (With note: ―MRK’s copy keep. Oct. 8, 1962: checked

against printed Session Laws, 1960-61.‖)

Labor Practices Law (May 1960) (With note: ―Changed – Oct. 23, 1962 for use of ILO

students.‖)

Labor Practices Law (May 1960)

An Act to Amend the Labor Practices Law in Relation to the Rights and Duties of Labor

Organizations and the Members Thereof (2 copies - One is labeled ―MRK’s Office Copy

checked: Sept 12, 1963. The other has a memo dated Aug. 19, 1963 attached with the

note ―There are a considerable number of changes when compared with the original

Konvitz draft.‖)

Labor Practices Law [preliminary copy] with COMMENTS (Feb. 8, 1960) (Princeton)

Labor Practices Law [preliminary copy] with COMMENTS (Feb. 8, 1960) (Ithaca)

An Act to Amend the Labor Practices Law, the Penal Law & the Associations Law (17

copies) (Feb. 4, 1964)

ILO Comments – Liberian Labor Bills, Fall 1960. This folder contains letters, working

papers, comments and many other papers about the revision of the Labor Practices Law.

Labor Law Statues (2 copies) (Feb. 1968)

Copies of various acts concerning employees’ health and safety.

Labor Law – Draft and comments (Jan. 1967)


Labor Practices Law (cont.)

Handbook of Labor Law of the Republic of Liberia, First Edition (2 copies) (January

1965)

Labor Law draft (January 1976)

Labor Law – Feb. 1976 Revision

Appendix A – International Labour Conventions Ratified by Liberia

Labor Practices Law – Amendments to Statutes

Labor Law Comments (Feb. 28, 1976)

Labor Law (working copy)

Various reports on labor issues by the ILO (in two red Princeton files)

Legislative Law

Proposed Amendment to New Legislative Law – Title 19 of Revised Code of Laws

Comments: Redraft of Law of Liberian Legislature 1956-57 (September 1958)

An Act to Amend the Executive Law, to Abolish the Bureau of Labor and to Create a

Labor Affairs Administration and to Adopt a New Labor Law to Supersede the Present

Labor Law and Labor Practices Law

Proposed Amendment to New Legislative Law – Title 19 of Revised Code of Laws (6

copies); An Act Adopting a New Legislative Law (6 copies).

Title 19 – An Act Adopting a New Legislative Law Approved May 15, 1969 (With notes

on cover: ―Used in meeting with Justice attorneys, Feb. Mar. 1977.‖ ―Official Master

copy. Use for printing with amendment.‖)

An Act to Amend the New Legislative Law with Respect to Reapportionment of

Representatives After Each Census. (With note: ―OK for submission to Leg.‖)

Title 19 – Legislative Law Index

Title 20 Legislative Law (working copy)

Liberian Unions


Maritime Law

Pamphlets: The Liberian Maritime Code As Amended December 22, 1949 (3 copies);

The Liberian Maritime Law (Title 22 of the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956, effective

March 1, 1958); The Liberian Maritime Law (Title 22 of the Liberian Code of Laws of

1956, effective March 1, 1958, as amended April 23, 1964); The Liberian Maritime Law

(Title 22 of the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956, effective March 1, 1958, as amended

through 9 May, 1970, effective 24 November 1970); Liberian Maritime Regulations

(Containing all amendments through 17 January, 1972); The Liberian Maritime Law

(Title 22 of the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956, effective March 1, 1958, as amended

through 18 July, 1973, effective 17 September, 1973). Handwritten note on cover says

―For the copy reviewed with Ministry of Justice attorneys, Nov. 1978, see my work

materials envelope on this title.) Liberian Maritime Regulations (Containing all

amendments through 1 July 1974) (2 copies)

Maritime Law – Amendments

Maritime Law – Drafts

Maritime Law (2 copies) (October 1976)

Title 22 Maritime Law (working copy)

An Act to Amend the Maritime Law with Respect to Merchant Seamen and Seagoing

Laborers

National Defense Law

National Defense Law (2 copies) (October 1976)

Title 22 – An Act Adopting a New National Defense Law and the National Defense Law

(2 copies) (With note on original: ―Submitted to Legislature as changed on pp. 49, 50, 51)

National Defense Law – Several amendments; copy of a letter from J. Newton Garnett to

Margaret Rosenzweig

Title 23 National Defense Law (working copy)

National Social Security and Welfare

National Social Security and Welfare (3 copies)

Title 22-A, National Security and Welfare Law – Official copy prepared in Liberia,

approved July 9, 1975; Undated drafts, revising official enactment (not enacted);

amendments

Natural Resources Law

An Act Adopting a New Natural Resources Law; Title 23, Natural Resources Law; An

Act to Amend the Agricultural Law to Provide for the Prevention of Water Pollution and

to Protect the Marine Life Within the Rivers and Streams of the Republic (With note:

―Milton repealed this in separate short act so that if Volume II is published, Agricultural

Law can be published without this provision, which is already covered by old Nat.

Resources L & new Public Health L‖)

An Act Adopting a New Natural Resources Law and Title 23, Natural Resources Law(5

copies)(February 1977)

Natural Resources Law – Comments

U.N. Report on Fisheries Management

Title 23 Natural Resources Law – Amendments

Title 24 Natural Resources Law (working copy)

Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Law

An Act Adopting a New Patent, Copyright and Trademark Law (3copies); Patent,

Copyright and Trademark Law (6 copies) (November 1976)

Patent, Copyright and Trademark Law (Oct. 1968) (With note: ―Approved May 24, 1972

per L1971-72 session law CK for official copy before publication published separately

(we have no official copy)‖)

Title 24 Patent, Copyright and Trademark Law; An Act Adopting a New Patent,

Copyright, and Trademark Law (With note: ―12/13/1974 Act as passed‖)

Title 25 Patent Copyright and Trademark Law (working copy)

Patriotic Observances Law

An Act Adopting a New Patriotic Observances Law; Title 25 Patriotic Observances Law

(6 copies) (January 1976)

Title 25 Patriotic Observances Law

An Act to Amend the Executive Law to Provide for the Holding of a National Festival of

Arts and Craft (With note: ―We have no definite information that this was ever passed

exception lists which passed Sen. Should it be included in Patriotic Observances L.?‖)

Title 26 Patriotic Observances Law (working copy)


Penal Law

An Act Adopting a New Foreign Relations Law and Amending the Penal Law with

Reference to Crimes Affecting Foreign Relations

An Act Adopting a New Penal law and Repealing Sections 31.3 and 32.1 of the Criminal

Procedure Law; Title 26, Penal Law (2 copies)

Penal Law (3 copies) (March 1973)

Draft of An Act Adopting a New Penal law and Repealing Sections 31.3 and 32.1 of the

Criminal Procedure Law and Title 26, Penal Law. (With note: ―Draft. Changed when

enacted.‖)

Various amendments: An Act Requiring the Obtaining of Permits for Public Marches and

Demonstrations (February 10, 1975) (With note: ―Penal L. Insert with offenses against

Public Order.‖); An Act to Amend Certain Provisions of an Act Adopting a New Penal

Law and Repealing Sections 31.3 and 32.1 of the Criminal Procedure Law, Approved

July 19, 1976 – Approved: April 18, 1978 Monrovia; An Act to Amend Certain

Provisions of the New Penal Law Approved July 19, 1976 with Respect to Rape and

Related Offenses – Approved September 2, 1978

Title 26 Penal Law (2 copies) (With note on original: ―This is Official Copy Published

April 3, 1978‖)

Title 27 Penal Law (working copy)

Postal Service Law

Postal Service Law (4 copies) (October 1976)

An Act Adopting a New Postal Service Law (With notes: ―For Printing.‖ ―Approved

1973.‖)

Amendment to Postal Service Law - An Act to Authorize the Postmaster General with the

Approval of the President to Regulate Postage Rates (With note: ―This prevails, as new

title, nl went thru 1965-66 – See enactment.‖)

Title 28 Postal Service Law (working copy)

Private Wrongs Law

An Act Adopting a Private Wrongs Law and Repealing the Injuries Law; Title 17 of the

Liberian Code of Laws of 1956; Title 28, Private Wrongs Law (2 copies) (January 1975)

Private Wrongs Law

Official bound pamphlet: An Act Adopting a Private Wrongs Law and Repealing the

Injuries Law Title 17 of the Liberian Code of Laws of 1956. Approved July 19, 1976

Monrovia

Public Contracts Law

Title XXXI, Public Contracts Law (February 1968)

An Act Adopting a Public Contracts Law and Repealing Chapters 1 and 3 of the Public

Works Law (5 copies); Title XXXI, Public Contracts Law (5 copies) (May 1968)

Public Contracts Law

Public Employment Law

Title 32 Public Employment Law (2 copies) (April 1976)

Public Employment Law (April 1976) (With note: ―Note: Enclosed bill approved

1/19/1973 repeals Public Employment L & Creates Civil Service Agency in Executive

L.‖ and ―---Acts re various retirement pensions‖)

Title 30 Public Employment Law (working copy)

Civil Service Rules and Regulations

Registered Land Law

Various Acts; Correspondence from Milton Koss to S. R. G. Harrop

Property Law

Title 29 Property Law (2 copies) (April 1975)

Title 29 Property Law without Chapter 8 (October 1976)

Title 29 Property Law (working copy)

Public Authorities Law

Title 30 Public Authorities Law (2 copies) (Oct. 1974)

Title 30 Public Authorities Law (2 copies) (Feb. 1975)

Public Authorities Law – Various Acts

An Act to Amend the Public Authorities Law to Create the Liberia Industrial Free Zone

Authority (July 9, 1975)


Public Health and Safety Law

Title 31 Public Health and Safety Law (working copy)

Title 33 Public Health Law

An Act to Amend the Public Health and Safety Law in Relation to the Control of

Narcotic Drugs (3 copies) (April 1965)

Title 33 Public Health Law (March 1975)

An Act Adopting a New Public Health Law and Title 33 Public Health Law (2 copies)

(March 1975)

Public Safety: Subsequent Amendment: An Act to Amend the Fire Prevention Code for

the Republic of Liberia

Building Codes

Fire Safety Law

Fire Prevention Code (March 1963)

Public Lands Law

Title 32[sic] Public Lands Law (working copy)

Title 34 Public Lands Law (July 1975)

Title 34 Public Lands Law (October 1976)

An Act Providing Incentives for the Acquisition of Land for the Development of

Agriculture (With note: ―Public Lands Law add to sec. 34.21‖)

Revenue and Finance Law

Title 35 Revenue and Finance Law (working copy)

Revenue & Finance Law [Preliminary copy] (October-November 1965)

Revenue & Finance Law – Final, with Act Adopting a New Finance and Revenue Code

Revenue and Finance Law (parts I – II) including Customs Revenue Code (part III)

Transportation and Communications Law

Title 36 Transportation and Communications Law; Title 37 Vehicle and Traffic Law

(working copies)

Folder labeled ―Proposed Bill, Comments and Parallel Reference Table‖

Miscellaneous

Some Suggestions for Revision of the Liberian Code (September 1958)

1st Supplement: Liberian Code of Laws – 1956 and 1. Bill (September 1958)

Proposed Revision of Law Relating to Survival of Actions (December 1958)

An Act to Repeal the Aborigines Law and the Local Government Law, and to Provide a

New Local Government Law, and to Amend the Domestic Relations Law with Reference

to the Domestic Relations of Tribal Persons, and to Amend the Revenue and Finance

Law.

Title 1 Aborigines Law

Various Taxes

Title 17 Injuries Law (working copy)

Injuries Law – Comments and Amendment – An Act to Amend the Injuries Law in

Relation to Injuries Through Negligence

Act Establishing the National Research Institute

Box 10- Special Reserve

Lists of bills passed by Legislature and signed by President: 1964-65, 1965-66, 1966-67,

1968-69, 1969-70, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1974-75, 1978

Local Government Law

Local Government Law; An Act to Amend Provisions of the Local Government Act

Local Government Law – Draft and Comments (October 1967)

Local Government Law – Act Adopting (October 1967)

Title 20 Local Government Law (working copy) (With note: ―Passed Apr 1, 1974)

Local Government Law – Ch. 5, Tribal Administration (With notes: ―For Printing,

Approved April 1, 1971, add 1973 Amendments.‖ ―Used in conferences with Justice

Atty’s Feb – Mar 1977.); Copy of a letter from J. Newton Garnett to Margaret

Rosenzweig (July 21, 1972)

Local Government Law – Various amendments (with annotations)

Title 21 Local Government Law (working copy)

Juvenile Court

Juvenile Court Procedural Code (January 1968)

Juvenile Delinquency Study

Miscellaneous Acts

Miscellaneous acts and memoranda

Acts relating to Communication

An Act to Authorize the Setting up of an Ad Hoc Consultation between the Department

of State and the Customs Service to investigate into and remedy incidence of loss of

revenue due to the improper preparation and presentation by foreign shippers of consular

invoices to Liberian consulates – Approved March 13, 1958 (2 copies)

An Act Creating a National Port Authority and Amending the Public Authorities Law in

Relation Thereto

An Act to Amend the Judiciary Law to Extend the Duration of Quarterly Session of the

Circuit Courts and Time in Which Juries may be Empanelled – Approved March 13,

1958 (2 copies)

Miscellaneous Acts – Mining

An Act Creating the Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Coast Guard Operation

and Other Services in the Department of National Defense – Approved January 31, 1958

(2 copies)

Miscellaneous acts pertaining to Racial Segregation and Discrimination

Miscellaneous acts granting annuities and pensions to specific people and a subsidy to a

taxi company

Miscellaneous acts pertaining to creating schools

Miscellaneous acts and codes pertaining to Taxation and Finance

The Collection of Debts, Remedies Under the Chattel Mortgage Act, and Fraudulent

Checks (October 1959)

Tax and Treasury Law

Report on Liberian Tax Law (February 1962)

Existing Laws and Regulations Governing the Treasury Service of Liberia

Public Welfare and Public Works Law

Title 33, Public Welfare Law and Title 34, Public Works Law (working copies)

Miscellaneous

Sunday Closing Laws by George Henries – Constitutional Liberties (January 31, 1962)

Proposed revision of the law relating to Execution of Wills (September 1958)

Proposed revisions to Liberian Code of Laws of 1956 to permit recovery for injuries to

the person which cause death and to expand provision relating to survived actions for

personal injuries – With related correspondence (November 1959)

Act Passage

Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia During the Session 1952-53


Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia During the Extraordinary

Session 1954



Session March, 1955

Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia During the Third Extraordinary

Session of the Forty-Second Legislature of the Republic of Liberia March 16, 1955


Session June 1955







Excerpts from Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia During the

Session 1960-61

Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia During the Session 1960-961 –

Unofficial Compilation




Session, 1963




Session, 1967


Comments – May 1963 – Liberian Code of Laws of 1956 – Supplement: 1958-59 through

1960-1961 (2 copies, one marked ―Ithaca copy‖)

Statutes enacted by Liberian Legislature 1959


Legal Practice and Court Administration

A Study of Court Administration by Turner Stewart and John Stewart (May 1959);

Comparative Judicial Administration in Liberia and the United States by Turner Stewart

and John Stewart (July 1, 1959)

Liberian Law Reports, Cumulative Index vols. 1-16, folder 1 and Table of Cases, vols. 1-

16, folder 2

Liberian Law Reports Cumulative Table of Cases, vol. 1-16

Liberian Law Journal - 10 issues: v.1, no.1 (June 1965); v.1, no.2 (Dec. 1965); v.2, no.2

(Dec. 1966); v.3, no.1 (June 1967); v.3, no.2 (Dec. 1967); v.4, no.1 (June 1968); v.4, no.2

(Dec. 1968); v.5, no.1 (June 1969); v.5, no.2 (Dec. 1969); and v.6, no.1 (June 1975)

A Compilation of: Citations to the Liberian Law Reports and Opinions in the Term

Reports of the Supreme Court of Liberia; Citations to the Constitution of Liberia; and

Citations to the Rules of the Supreme Court of Liberia compiled by Robert Clifton,

Instructor or Law (U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer) and Toye C. Barnard, Dean of Louis

Arthur Grimes School of Law Univ. of Liberia (November 1978)

Various Opening Addresses to the People’s Supreme Court of Liberia by the chief

justices and others from 1979-1982

The Legal and Judicial Systems of Liberia by Milton R. Konvitz (December 8, 1959)

Proposed rules of court never adopted

Rules for Governing Procedure in the Courts and Regulating the Moral and Ethical

Conduct of Lawyers in the Republic of Liberia (February 2, 1966)

Rules for Governing Procedure in the Courts and for Regulating the Moral and Ethical

Conduct of Lawyers in the Republic of Liberia, Amended and Revised by Authority (July

1972)

Rules of Courts (With note: ―1958, this is amended as of 1966‖)

Rules and Regulations for the Governance of Debt Courts in the Republic of Liberia;

Rule and Regulations Governing the Tax Courts; An Act to Amend the Judiciary law to

Require all Courts to Furnish the Revenue Service with Copies of all Probated Wills and

Trust Indentures; Instructions for Filing Income Tax Returns for Individual and

Partnerships for the Year 1960 only.

Annual Survey of African Law, v. V (1971)

Annual Survey of African Law, v. VI (1972)

Annual Survey of African Law, v. VII (1973)

Liberian Law Reports v. 2 (2 copies of book) (1926)

Folder labeled ―Cassell case‖


Legal Practice and Court Administration cont.

Opinions Delivered by the Honourable the Supreme Court of Liberia October Term A.D.

1975 ( 2 softbound copies, one is heavily annotated)

Edwardi & Hage v. Republic of Liberia (2 copies)


1979 (heavily annotated)


1981

Opinions Delivered by the Honourable the People’s Supreme Court of Liberia October

Term A.D. 1981

Opinions Delivered by the Honourable the People’s Supreme Court of Liberia October

Term A.D. 1982

Report of the Liberian Court Commission on Judicial Administration and Procedure

(September 6, 1957)

Code of Professional Ethics of the National Bar Association and Rules Governing the

Courts, Republic of Liberia (2 copies)(1958)

People’s Redemption Council (PRC) decrees from 1980 to 1982 and one Executive

Ordinance (no.3) signed by Master Sergeant Samuel K. Doe


Statutes and Laws

2 bound volumes of Revised Statutes of the Republic of Liberia, v.1 (1848-1911) and v.2

(1848-1911)

Envelope containing a distressed copy of v.2 of Revised Statutes of the Republic of

Liberia (1848-1911) along with Xeroxed pages of the index from p. 702 – 716, the pages

missing from the volume

Black binder containing Old Blue Book, L. 1847-57 pp. 88-167

Black binder containing Old Blue Book, L. 1847-57 pp. 168-239

Black binder labeled L. 1857 – L. 1858

Black binder labeled L.1859, L. 1860, L. 1861

Black binder labeled L.1862-63, L.1863-64, L.1864-65, L.1865-66

Black binder labeled L.1866-67, L.1867-68

Black binder labeled L.1868-69, L.1869-70

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1871-2, 1872-3, 1873-4

Folder of a collection of Liberian Newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and other

interesting material mostly relating to labor


Statutes and Laws cont.

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1874-5, 1875-6



Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1882-3, 1883-4, 1884-5, 1885-6, 1886-7


Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1891-2, 1892-3, 1893-4, 1894-5










Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1910-1911, call session 1911

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1911-12


Black binder labeled: Session Laws L.1914. L.1915

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1915-16, 1916, 1917-18

Black binder labeled: Session Laws call session 1917, 1918-19, 1919-20






Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1926




Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1928, Extraordinary Session (E.S.) 1928

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1929, 1930, 31, E.S. 1931

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1931-32, E.S. 1932


Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1934, E.S. 1935

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1935-36, 1936




Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1940, 1941-42

Black binder labeled: Session Laws 1942-43, E.S. 1943, 1944-45 (indexed in pamphlet

form)


Statues and Laws cont.



Legislative Acts

Acts Passed by the Republic of Liberia During the Session: 1941-42; 1942-43; 1943-44;

1944-45; 1945-46; 1946-47; 1947-48; 1948-49; 1950-51; Extraordinary Session 1950;

Extraordinary Session 1951; 1951-52 -- 13 separate pamphlets

Legislative Acts – Liberia To 1940

Legislative Acts – Liberia, 1940’s

Legislative Acts - Liberia, 1950’s

Legal Reports and Pamphlets

Liberia Law Reports, v.2. (hardbound copy)

Liberian Supreme Court Opinions (November 1933)

Pamphlet - Regulations for the Consular Service of the Republic of Liberia (1922)

Modified by Gabriel L. Dennis

Pamphlet - Republic of Liberia Customs Tariff 1935

Pamphlet - Republic of Liberia Customs Tariff 1940

Pamphlet - Republic of Liberia Executive Order no. 5 – 1948. Subject: Customs

Regulations. Free Port of Monrovia

Pamphlet - Criminal Code (to take effect as a law June, 15, 1919)

Pamphlet - Republic of Liberia Monrovia Free Port Regulations 1948 and Tariff of Dues

and Charges, Effective July 26, 1948

Pamphlet - The Liberian Internal Revenue Code, effective March 1958

Pamphlet - Liberian Corporation Law of 1948 as amended February 15, 1951 (2 copies)

Pamphlet - Liberian Corporation Law of 1948 (With note: ―as amended February 21,

1966‖)

Pamphlet - An Act Fixing Minimum Wage for Workmen and Protecting the Interest of

the Working Classes, approved January 29, 1943

Pamphlet - An Act to Create and Establish the International Trust Company of Liberia

and to Define its Powers (2 copies, one heavily annotated)

Misc.

Black binder labeled: Rules and Regulations for the Circuit Courts of the Republic of

Liberia, edited by James. A. Toliver (July 1912)

Executive Orders No. 5 and No. 6 of July 1958 concerning the diamond industry

Annual Reports

Annual Report on the Operation of the Interior Department for the Fiscal Year Ending

October 1, 1955, up to and Including September 30, 1956

Annual Report of James A.A. Pierre, Attorney General of Liberia to the Honorable the

Legislature of the Republic of Liberia…for the Year October 1, 1963 to September 30,

1964

Annual Report of James A.A. Pierre, Attorney General of Liberia to the Honorable the

Legislature of the Republic of Liberia…for the Year October 1, 1964 to September 30,

1965

Annual Report of the Attorney General of the Republic of Liberia covering the period

October 1, 1966 to September 30, 1967

Annual Report of the Attorney General of the Republic of Liberia covering the period

October 1, 1967 to September 30, 1968

Liberian Codification Project

Agreements and Contracts between the Government of Liberia and Cornell University

Financial Statement – Monthly (Marked ―Lane’s worksheets)


Liberian Codification Project cont.

Coded Decisions of His Excellency Wm. V.S. Tubman on Administrative and other

Matters Heard and Determined in His Several Councils of Chiefs, 1945 & 1946

Director’s Quarterly Reports June 1952 – November 16, 1955

Quarterly Reports 1956-

Miscellaneous Memoranda

Folder of State Department correspondence concerning the project

Project II: Agreement (Official Signatures)

Contracts, Agreements, Estimates, Costs

Liberian Codification Commission, Minutes of Meetings, August – September 1955

Project Agreements – Tentative

International Labor Office, Report of Mission to Liberia Undertaken by Alvin M. Rucker,

March to April 1951

Bills and Staff Notes (October 1, 1957)

Liberian Codification Project - Firestone Company folder

ILR School: Administrative Assistant (2nd

Agreement)

Folder of miscellaneous correspondence

Liberian Codification Project – Staff - Anna E. Lane

Liberian Codification Project –Staff – Charles Ruff [temporary employee]

Liberian Codification Project - Staff – David Bancroft

Liberian Codification Project – Travel , etc

Liberian Codification Project 10/14/65: Revenue and Finance – Labeled: ―Unless form is

changed by Project staff, these pages of for reference in typing laws for new code‖ (3

copies)

Memorandum Relating to Methods for Expediting Collection of Debts

Liberian Studies

Article reprint from National Magazine, March 1854. ―President Roberts – The Republic

of Liberia.‖ (With note: ―Magazine presented to Pres. Tubman by MKR‖) (Sept. 1959)

Bibliographical Introduction to Legal History and Ethnology Liberia, edited by John

Glissen. Prepared and revised by Liberian Codification Project Cornell University,

Ithaca, New York (1966) (2 copies)

Liberian Studies Journal v.1, no. 1 (October 1968)

Liberian Studies Journal v.1, no. 2 (Spring 1969)

Liberian Studies Journal v. II, no. 1 (1969)

Liberian Studies Journal v. II, no. 2 (1970) – This volume also contains an inserted article

by Margaret Rosenzweig called ―The Liberian Codification Project‖ which gives a brief

history of the project.


Publications

Brett, Sir Lionel and Ian McLean, The Criminal Law and Procedure of Lagos, Eastern

Nigeria and Western Nigeria. London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1963

Smith, Robert A., His Challenge is Mankind: A Political Portrait of William R. Tolbert.

Monrovia, Liberia: Providence Publications, 1972

Huberich, Charles Henry, The Political and Legislative History of Liberia. New York:

Central Book Company, Inc. 1947 (Vols. 1 and 2)

Red Princeton file containing:

- Health Hints for the Tropics (4th

Edition 1960 and 5th

Edition 1964)

- Liberian Inaugural Ceremonies (Jan. 1956)

- Liberia: A Market for U.S. Products (Feb. 1965)

- Misc. newspaper clippings

- Liberia Trade Industry and Travel (Jan. 1960)

- Photographs – Meeting in Ithaca in Nov. 1961; Liberian Commission to review

draft of civil procedure law

- 1966 Department of Information and Cultural Affairs calendar

- ―The Foreign Policy of the United States in Liberia‖ by Raymond W. Bixler

(1957)

- The Liberian Year Book 1956

- The Liberia Official Gazette (multiple): Jan. and Feb. 1966, Sept. and Oct. 1966,

July and Aug. 1966, May and June 1966, Nov. and Dec. 1965, March and April

1966

- Map of Liberia (1959)

- Liberia pamphlet (2)

- A Tribute to the Late President Tubman by Chief Justice Pierre

- Map of Liberia (1948)

- Liberia: Story of Progress (1960)

- The City of Monrovia – pamphlet – no date

- Fourth Inaugural Address of William Tubman, President of Liberia – Jan. 4, 1960

– pamphlet

- Program – Reception in Honor of His Excellency Dr. William Tubman, President

of The Republic of Liberia (Nov. 28, 1970)

- Press Release – Riots Leaders Granted Amnesty (June 1979)

President’s Messages and Decisions

First Annual Message of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia

Third Annual Message of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia

Fourth Annual Message of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia, (With note:

―uncorrected copy‖)

Fifth Annual Message of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia

Sixth Annual Message of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia

Eighth Annual Message of William V.S. Tubman, President of Liberia

Decisions Rendered by the President of Liberia on Administrative and Other Matters….

From May 29 – June 13, 1945

Decisions Rendered by the President of Liberia on Administrative and Other Matters….

from June 18th

– 28th

1945.

Miscellaneous

Folder containing: Procedure Governing the Operation of the Liberian Bar Committee…,

approved 1928; Executive Circular no. 9-1941; and Quarterly Report of the Magisterial

Court for the Commonwealth District, City of Monrovia for the Periods May 1, A.D.

1950 to November 30, A.D. 1950.

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