United States House Committee on Freedmen's Affairs

The Committee on Freedmen's Affairs was a select committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. == History == The committee was established on December 6, 1865, with the mandate that "so much of the President's message as relates to freedmen shall be referred; and all reports and papers concerning freedmen shall be referred to them, with the liberty to report by bill or otherwise."At the opening of the second session of the same Congress (39th), the committee was continued as a standing committee with the same jurisdiction.

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