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Civil registration rules classify births and deaths

📅 18 June 1851

Decree no. 798, also dated 18 June 1851, set rules for registering births and deaths. In a slaveholding society, recording a child’s status could help reproduce an owner’s claim across generations....

Land regulations establish a system for registering public lands

📅 30 January 1854

Decree no. 1,318 of 30 January 1854 regulated implementation of the 1850 Land Law, including procedures for identifying and registering land. The system relied heavily on declarations by occupants and...

A new registration decree governs enslaved people and freeborn children

📅 1 December 1871

Decree no. 4,835 of 1 December 1871 regulated a special register of enslaved people and children legally classified as freeborn under the September law. Registration could help administer a gradual...