1820

February 24, 1820

The Virginia State Assembly passes an act, effective as of this date, to require the governor of Virginia to send copies of Virginia law to the following: four copies of the Statutes at Large, four copies of the revisal of seventeen hundred and ninety-two, and of each and every revisal subsequent to that period (if to be had,) four copies of the session acts of eighteen hundred and eighteen and eighteen hundred and nineteen, and annually thereafter, four copies of the acts of each session of assembly ; one copy whereof shall be for the use of each of the two houses of Congress, one for the president of the United States, and one for the library of Congress.

February, 1820

 Sufficient copies of the Revised Code have been printed to make it available for public sale, and it is advertised as such in a Richmond newspaper. Research conducted on this subject indicates that at least six or seven other Virginia newspapers also carry advertisements for the new Code.

March 15, 1820

Maine becomes the 23rd state. Until then, it had been the District of Maine, attached to Massachusetts.

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1821

August 10, 1821

Missouri becomes the 24th state. Prior to that, it was a territory called the Missouri Country.

Connecticut publishes the 13th Amendment.

Thomas Jefferson, framer of the Constitution, writes to Judge Spencer Roane, editor of the Virignia Statutes in a continuing correspondence, "Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible."

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1822

March 19, 1822

Senator Phillip Reed of Maryland takes office for the third time since proposing the 13th amendment.

Rhode Island and Kentucky publish the new Amendment.

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1823

March 3, 1823

Senator Reed leaves office for the 3rd and final time before his death.

Mississippi, Massachusetts, Illinois, and the Territory of Florida publish the 13th Amendment

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1824

Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Indiana, and Connecticut publish the 13th Amendment.

Secretary of the Treasury William Crawford of Georgia runs for President.

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1825

March 4, 1825

John Quincy Adams begins his term as President of the United States. Son of former President John Adams, he personally witnessed the Battle of Bunker Hill. Educated at Harvard as an attorney, he served as secretary to his father in Europe, Minister to Holland, member of the Berlin Legation, then the U.S. Senate in 1802, Minister to Russia in 1808, and in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1830. He also served as Secretary of State to James Monroe.

William Munford, joint editor of the Revised Virginia Codes (Statutes at Large) dies.

The TONA appears in the State Law books of Mississippi. No protest at being left out of the ratification process is noted.

Missouri, Maine, Louisiana, Illinois, and the Territory of Florida publish the 13th Amendment.

Maine orders 10,000 copies of the Constitution with the 13th Amendment to be printed for use in the schools

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1826

July 4, 1826

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both die on this day, the Fiftieth Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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1827

Michigan and Illinois publish the 13th Amendment.

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1828

North Carolina publishes the 13th Amendment.

William Waller Hening, official compiler and editor of the Virginia Statutes at Large dies.

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1829

January 29, 1829

Timothy Pickering, former Secretary of War, Secretary of State, Senator and Representative for Massachusetts dies.

March 4, 1829

Andrew Jackson begins his term as President of the United States. An attorney from Tennessee, he was the first Representive from Tennessee in Congress, later served in the Senate, and was a Major General in the War of 1812.

November 2, 1829

Phillip Reed, who proposed the TONA Amendment to Congress in 1810, dies. He had served from March of 1806 to March of 1813, again from March 4 of 1817 to March 3 of 1819, and then again from March 19 of 1822 to March 3 of 1823.

November 26, 1829

Bushrod Washington, joint author of the general index to the Virginian law authorities (1790-1819), nephew to George Washington, member of the Virginia state legislature (1787), and Justice of the United States Supreme Court since 1798 dies.

The following "note" appears on p. 23, Vol. 1 of the "New York Revised Statutes":

"In the edition of the 'Laws of the U.S,' before referred to, there is an amendment printed as Article 13, prohibiting citizens from accepting titles of nobility or honor, or presents, offices, &c. from foreign nations. But, by a message of the president of the United States of the 4th of February, 1818, in answer to a resolution of the house of representatives, it appears that this amendment had been ratified only by 12 states, and therefore had not been adopted. See vol. iv of the printed papers of the 1st session of the 15th Congress, No. 76."

Benjamin Watkins Leigh, former Virginia state legislator and revisor of the 1819 Virginia Codes, serves as a delegate at the Virginia Constitutional Convention. Also beginning this year, he serves as Official Reporter of the Virginia State Court of Appeals.

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1830

December 4, 1830

Governor Giles of Virginia dies.

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1831

Maine, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Ohio again publish the 13th Amendment.

Indiana Revised Laws of 1831 publish the 13th Article on pg. 20.

  July 4, 1831

James Monroe dies in New York, NY, rejoining both Jefferson and Adams on this significant day in history.

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1833

Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and the Northwest Territories publish the 13th Amendment.

Justice Joseph Story of the U.S. Supreme Court publishes "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States", which shows only the first twelve amendments as adopted. The document is heavily relied upon by judges and attorneys everywhere. There has been no complete printing of the United States Statutes since 1815.

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1834

September 15, 1834

Former Senator, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, and presidential candidate William H. Crawford of Georgia dies.

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1835

Ohio, Missouri, and Connecticut publish the 13th Amendment.

Benjamin Watkins Leigh, editor and revisor of the 1819 Virginia codes, is elected Senator for Virginia.

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1836

June 28, 1836

James Madison dies at Montpelier, Virginia.

Senator Benjamin Watkins Leigh of Virginia leaves office.

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1837

March 4, 1837

Martin Van Buren becomes President. A trained attorney, he serves as Senator from New York in 1821, Secretary of State in 1827, Vice President in 1832.

Georgia again publishes the 13th Amendment.

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1838

The TONA appears in the State law book of Louisiana in 1838 in two separate printings. 

Connecticut, which had refused to ratify the 13th Amendment, publishes the amendment.

Florida publishes the 13th Amendment.

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1839

Missisppi, Iowa, Illinois, Connecticut, and the Wisconsin Territory publish the 13th Amendment.

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