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KONVITZ RECODIFICATION FILES

BOX 1 (Special Reserve)

  • Civil Procedure Law - Statutes (2 folders)
    New material for consideration by Liberian Commission
    September 4 - October 1962
  • Civil Procedure Law - Comments (2 folders)
    New material for consideration by Liberian Commission
    September 4 -October 1962
  • Civil Procedure Law - Comments (3 folders)
    1961 material review for 1962 meeting with Liberian Commission
    September 4 -October 1962
  • An Act to Amend the Labor Practices Law in Relation to the Rights and Duties of Labor Organizations and the Members There of - as passed by Liberian Legislature
  • Report on: Liberian Tax Law [February 1962]
  • Liberian Codification Project (2 folders)
    Civil Procedure Law - Statutes
    Commission Meeting, Ithaca, NY 11/6/61
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Civil Procedure Law - Comments
    Commission Meeting, Ithaca, NY 11/6/61
  • Civil Procedure Law - Statutes & Comments (2 folders)
    Chapters 9, 11, 13 & 16
    Sent to Liberia to be reconsidered by Liberian Commission
    September 4-October 1962
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Bill to repeal labor laws - March 1962
  • Labor Practices Law - Rights & Duties of Labor Organizations (2 folders)
    [Feb. 1962]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Memorandum: Labor Practices Law; Rights and Duties of Organizations, etc.
    S. Rosenzweig 1/21/63
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Labor Practices Law
    Workmen's Compensation (pp. 1-17)
  • Liberian Codification Project (2 folders)
    Labor Practices Law [May 1960]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Labor Practices Law [April 1960]

BOX 2 (Special Reserve)

  • Liberian Codification Project
    Labor Practices Law [April 1960]
  • Labor Practices Law (preliminary copy) with comments
    [2/8/60] M.R. Konvitz - Princeton
  • An act to amend the Labor Practices Law, the Penal Law & the Associations Law
    [2/4/64]
  • Liberian Codification Project - Comments (2 folders)
    Labor Practices Law [February 1960]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Labor Practices Law [April 1960]
  • Labor Practices Law (preliminary copy) with comments
    [2/8/60] M.R. Konvitz - Ithaca
  • The Legal and Judicial systems of Liberia
    December 8, 1959
  • Report on: Liberian Tax Law [February 1962]
  • Liberian Codification Project (5 folders)
    The Collection of Debts, Remedies under the Chattel Mortgage Act, and Fraudulent Checks [10/59]
  • Liberian Codification Project [July 1959]
    Stewarts' Report: Comparative Judicial Administration in Liberia and the U.S. (Institute of Judicial Administration)
  • Liberian Codification Project
    ILO Comments - Liberian Labor Bills [Fall 1960]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Commission: Civil Procedure Law [Sept. 4-Oct. 5, 1962]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Commission (proposed) to Study Civil Procedure Act [1961]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Building codes
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Juvenile Delinquency Study
  • Collection of Debts (Incomplete) 1959

BOX 3 (Special Reserve)

  • Customs Revenue Law
  • Final "Copy" Revenue and Finance Law
  • Liberian Code of Laws of 1956
    Supplement: 1958-59 through 1960-61
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Fire Prevention Code [March 1963]
  • Comments - May 1963 [Ithaca Copy]
    Liberian Code of Laws of 1956
    Supplement: 1958-59 through 1960-61
  • Liberian Codification Project - 2 Bills

    (1) An Act to Amend General Construction Law
    (2) An Act Adopting Civil Procedure Law, & Amending Other Titles [12/62]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Revenue & Finance Law (Preliminary Copy)
    October-November, 1965

BOX 8 (Special Reserve)

  • Revised Code of Laws
    VOL. III
  • Index: Commercial & Bankruptcy Law
  • Decedents Estate Law
  • Education Law

BOX 9 (Special Reserve)

  • Maritime Law
  • National Defense Law - Statutes [October 1967]
  • National Security Law, Welfare Law, and Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Law [November 1967]
  • Natural Resource Law [February 1977]
  • Patriotic Observances Law [January 1976]
  • Penal Law
  • Postal Services Law [October 1967] & Property Law [April 1975]
  • Public Authorities Law [February 1975] & Public Contracts Law [February 1968]
  • Public Health Law [March 1975]
  • Public Employment Law [April 1976] & Public Lands Law [July 1975]

BOX 10 (Rare Book Room)

  • Liberian Codification Project: Agreements and Contracts
  • Liberian Codification Project: Financial Statement - monthly
  • Liberian Project: Quarterly Reports - 1965
  • Liberian Codification Project: Director's Quarterly Reports (June 1952 - November 16, 1955) - Liberian Finances, Lane's worksheets
  • Liberian Codification Project: Memoranda - miscellaneous
  • Liberian Codification Project: State Department (Oscar W. Meier, et al) 1952-53
  • Liberian Codification Project: Project II: Agreement (Official Signatures)
  • Liberian Codification Project: Contracts, Agreements, Estimates, Costs [Duplicates]
  • Liberian Codification Project: Minutes of Meetings - August - September 1955
  • Project Agreement (Tentative)
  • Liberian Supreme Court Opinions: November 1933
  • Annual Report on the Operation of the Interior Department for the Fiscal Year ending October 1, 1955 up to and including September 30, 1956 submitted to the 2nd regular session of the forty-third legislature of Liberia by Harrison Grigsby
  • Liberian Codification Project: Memorandum relating to methods for expediting collection of debts
  • Liberian Codification Project: [11/59]
    Proposed revision Liberian Code Permit Recovery Injuries? Expand Provisions Survived Actions for Personal Injuries
  • Civil Service Rules and Regulations
  • Treasury Laws and Regulations
  • Quarterly Report of the Magisterial Court for the Commonwealth District, City of Monrovia for the periods May 1, 1950 to November 30, 1950
  • Liberian Maritime Code as amended December 22, 1949
  • International Labor Office: Report on mission to Liberia undertaken by Alvin M. Rucker March to April 1951
  • Annual Report: Attorney General of Liberia
    October 1, 1963 to September 30, 1964
  • Liberian Codification Project:
    Proposed revision of law relating to survival of actions [December 1958]
  • Liberian Codification Project:
    "Proposed? to Execution of wills" [September 1958]
  • Liberian Codification Project:
    Some suggestions for revision of the Liberian Code [September 1958]
  • Proposed Bills, Comments, Parallel Reference Table
  • Liberian Codification Project:
    Comments - Redraft of laws of Liberian Legislature, 1956-67 [September 1958]
  • Liberian Codification Project:
    Bills and Staff Notes [Bond Copy]
  • Liberian Codification Project: [pp. 1-89]
    First supplement: Liberian Code of Laws - 1956
    I. Bill [September 1958]

BOX 12 (Rare Book Room)

  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1961-62
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1960-61 [Official] (2 folders)
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1960-61 [Unofficial]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Statutes enacted by Liberian Legislature
    (28 rec'd July 27, 1959)
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1950s
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1958-59; 1959-60
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1956-57; 1957-58
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia to 1940
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1940s
  • Legislative Acts - Liberia 1962-64
  • Annual Report of the Attorney General of the Republic of Liberia covering the period October 1, 1967 to September 30, 1968 to the Second Session of the 46th Legislature
  • Annual Report of James A. A. Pierre, Attorney General of Liberia, to the Honorable Legislature of the Republic of Liberia in the Third Session of the 45th 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 to the First Session of the 46th Legislature
  • Fire Safety Law

BOX 15 (Special Reserve)

  • Revised Code of Laws - 1969-1970
    VOLUME II
  • Agriculture Law
  • Aliens and Nationality Law
  • Associations Law
  • Banking Law - Title 6
  • Banking Law - November 1977
  • Commercial and Bankruptcy Law (Bankruptcy Only)
    VOLUME III
  • Domestic Relations Law
  • Education Law [October 1967]
  • Education Law - Draft and Comments [October 1967]
  • Education Law - An Act Adopting [October 1967]
  • Election Law

BOX 16 (Special Reserve)

  • Revised Code of Laws - 1969-1970
    VOLUME III (CONT'D)
  • Executive Law - Comments on Various Chapters [August 1907]
  • Foreign Relations Law
    VOLUME IV
  • General Business Law
  • General Construction Law
  • Judiciary Law [January 1968]
  • Labor Law - Draft [January 1967]
  • Legislative Law
  • Local Government Law - Draft and Comments [October 1967]
  • Local Government Law - Act Adopting [October 1967]

BOX 17 (Special Reserve)

  • Revised Code of Laws - 1969-1970
    VOLUME V
  • Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Law [November 1967]
  • Patriot Observances Law
  • Penal Law - Amendment to
  • Postal Service Law [October 1967]
  • Property Law
  • Public Authority Law
  • Public Contracts Law
  • Public Lands Law
  • Miscellaneous Laws:
    Act to Amend Civil Procedure Law in Relation to Mentally Disabled and Incompetents (Subchapter F) - Draft [November 1967]

BOX 18 (Special Reserve)

  • Amendment to Civil Procedure Law - Change of Name [December 1967]
  • Liberian Codification Project (59-2069)
    Stewarts' Report: A Study of Court Administration [Spring 1959]
  • Liberian Codification Project [November 1964] (9 folders)
    Act: Creating National Port Authority & Amending Public Authorities Law
  • Port Authority Bill (extra copies)
  • Liberian Codification Project - 2 Bills (15 folders)
    (1) An Act to Amend General Construction Law
    (2) An Act Adopting Civil Procedure Law, & Amending Other Titles [12/62]
  • Hut Tax

BOX 19 Special Reserve)

  • VOLUME I
  • Constitution
    Amendments received by Project subsequent to May 8, 1972
    VOLUME II
  • Title 4: Aliens and Nationality Law
    3 published copies, on edited for printing
    Subsequent amendment and comment on section 21.30
    Index
  • Title 5: Associations Law
    1 published copy and one published copy of Business Corporation Act
    Index
  • Title 6: Banking Law
    National Bank of Liberia Act - one published copy with amendments
    Financial Institutions Act - one published copy with amendments
    One published copy of each of 3 acts from Executive Law relation to banks
    One copy edited for printing
    Index

BOX 20 (Special Reserve)

  • VOLUME II (CONT'D)
  • Title 7: Commercial & Bankruptcy Law
    1 draft copy undated, prepared for Legislature as of 3/29/72
    Amendment to General Business Law relating to bankruptcy, to be repealed
    Index to Commercial Code
    VOLUME III
  • Title 8: Decedents Estates Law
    1 official copy, edited for printing
    Copy published in Liberia never received
    Index
  • Title 9: Domestic Relations Law
    1 published copy
    1 copy edited for printing
    Index
  • Title 10: Education Law
    1 official copy, edited for printing
    1 copy of proposed amendments
    Index
    Copy of amendment
  • Title 11: Election Law
    2 draft copies (never enacted)
  • Title 12: Executive Law
    2 published copies, one with subsequent amendments
    1 copy prepared for printing
    Partial Index
  • Title 12: Executive Law (2nd envelope)
  • Title 13: Foreign Relations Law
    2 draft copies (never enacted)
    Amendments
    VOLUME IV
  • Title 14: General Business Law
    1 published copy
    1 copy edited for printing, containing subsequent amendments
    Copies of amendments
    Index

BOX 21 (Special Reserve)

  • VOLUME IV (CONT'D)
  • Title 15: General Construction Law
    2 copies of draft statute Project was informed had been enacted
    Index
  • Title 16: Insurance Law
    2 published copies
    1 copy edited for printing
    Index
  • Title 17: Judiciary Law
    1 published copy as originally enacted plus amendments received and added together with notice of amendments not received
    1 copy of original as presented to Legislature dated January 1969, together with letter of May 1, 1980 showing changes
    Copies of amendments and proposed amendments
  • Title 18: Labor Law
    2 copies of draft (never enacted)
    Set of Labor Conventions to which Liberia was signatory
    Amendments to statutes
    Comments on Project draft
  • Title 19: Legislature Law
    2 published copies with amendments received and notices of amendments
    Index
  • Title 20: Local Government Law
    1 official copy
    Amendments
    VOLUME V
  • Title 21: Maritime Law
    2 drafts dated October 1976 (never enacted)
    Liberian Maritime Law, published 1973
    Amendments
  • Title 22: National Defense Law
    Official copy of statute, enacted 1972
    Amendments
  • Title 22-A: National Social Security and Welfare Law
    1 official copy prepared in Liberia stated to have been approved July 9, 1975
    2 undated drafts revising official enactment, not enacted
    Amendment
  • Title 23: Natural Resources Law
    2 draft copies, not enacted
    Comments
    UN Report on Fisheries Management with memorandum
    Recent statutes
  • Title 24: Patent, Copyright, & Trademark Law
    2 draft copies stated to have been approved May 24, 1972. Published separately but Project did not receive copy
  • Title 25: Patriotic Observances Law
    1 draft copy (never enacted)

BOX 22 (Special Reserve)

  • VOLUME V (CONT'D)
  • Title 26: Penal Law
    2 official copies stated to have been published April 3, 1978
    1 copy of Project draft, as proposed
    Amendments
  • Title 27: Postal Service Law
    1 official copy, approved February 2, 1973
    Amendment
  • Title 28: Private Wrongs Law
    1 published copy
  • Title 29: Property Law
    3 copies of Registration of Land Act published memoranda related to proposed amendments
    2 draft copies of other parts of title (never enacted)
  • Title 30: Public Authorities Law
    Current laws
    2 copies of draft of June 1978
    Comments on draft
  • Title 31: Public Contracts Law
    3 official copies
  • Title 32: Public Employment Law
    2 drafts of proposed Public Employment Law published enactment creating Civil Service agency in Executive Law
    Acts relating to pensions for public employees
  • Title 33: Public Health Law
    2 draft copies; Project was informed this had been enacted
    Act establishing research institute
  • Title 34: Public Lands Law
    2 draft copies (never enacted)
    Act relating to acquisition of agricultural land
  • Title 35: Public Safety Law
    Subsequent amendments
  • List of bills passed by Legislature and signed by President:
    1964-65; 1965-66; 1966-67; 198-69; 1969-70; 1970-71; 1971-72; 1972-73; 1974-75; 1978

BOX 23 (Rare Book Room)

  • Statute Laws of the Republic of Liberia 1847-57, p. 88-167
  • Statute Laws of the Republic of Liberia 1847-57, p. 168-239
  • Revised Statutes of the Republic of Liberia Volume I 1848-1911
  • Acts passed during the session December 1859; December 1860; December 1861
  • Revised Statutes of the Republic of Liberia Volume I section 567-1098
  • Revised Statutes of the Republic of Liberia Volume II 1848-1911
  • Acts passed during the session 1857-58
  • Acts passed during the session 1862-63; 1863-64; 1864-65; 1865-66
  • Acts passed during the session 1866-67; 1867-68
  • Acts passed during the session 1868-69; 1869-70
  • Acts passed during the session 1871-72; 1872-73; 1873-74
  • Acts passed during the session 1874-75; 1875-76

BOX 24 (Rare Book Room)

  • Acts passed during the session 1904-05; 1905-06
  • Acts passed during the session 1902-03; 1903-04
  • Acts passed during the session 1897-98; 1898-99; 1899-1900
  • Acts passed during the session 1882-83; 1883-84; 1884-85; 1885-86; 1886-87
  • Acts passed during the session 1895-96; 1896-97
  • Acts passed during the session 1888-89; 1889-90; 1890-91
  • Acts passed during the session 1900-01; 1901-02
  • Acts passed during the session 1879-80; 1880-81
  • Acts passed during the session 1891-92; 1892-93; 1893-94; 1894-95
  • Acts passed during the session 1876-77; 1877-78; 1878-79

BOX 25 (Rare Book Room)

  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1906-07; 1907-08
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1908-09; 1909-10
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1910-11
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1911-12
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1912-13; 1913-14
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1914; 1915
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1915-16; 1916; 1917-18
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1917; 1918-19; 1919-20
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1920; 1920-21; 1921-22
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1922-23
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1923-24
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1924-25

BOX 26 (Rare Book Room)

  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1942-43; 1944-45
    Public Acts of the Thirty-Ninth Legislature of the Republic of Liberia - Extraordinary Session 1943
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1934
    Public Acts of the Thirty-Ninth Legislature of the Republic of Liberia - Extraordinary Session 1935
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1935-36
    Public Acts of the Thirty-Ninth Legislature of the Republic of Liberia - Extraordinary Session 1936
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1932-33; 1933-34
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1939-40
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1937
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1938
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1946-47
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1940; 1941-42
  • Acts Passed by the Legislature of the Republic of Liberia during the session 1947-48
  • Rules and Regulations for the Circuit Courts of the Republic of Liberia [July 1912]
    Edited by James A. Toliver (Chief Justice of Liberia)

BOX 27 (Special Reserve)

  • Liberian Codification Project
    Firestone Company
  • Liberian Codification Project
    ILR School: Administrative Assistant [2nd agreement]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Miscellaneous Correspondence
  • Liberian Codification Project - [Staff]
    Anna E. Lane
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Ruff, Charles [temporary employee]
  • Liberian Codification Project - [Staff]
    Bancroft, David
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Travel, etc.

BOX 27.1 (Special Reserve)

  • Liberian Codification Project
    Civil Procedure Law [62-2395, 2396]
    Chapter 64: Arbitration
  • Liberian Codification Project (9 folders)
    Civil Procedure Law - Comments
    [Commission Meeting, Ithaca, NY, 11/6/61]
  • Civil Procedure Law (6 folders)
    1961 material rev. for 1962 meeting with Liberian Commission [September 4-October 1962]
  • Liberian Codification Project
    Civil Procedure Law [62-2778]
    Table of Contents - September 1962

BOX 28 (Special Reserve)

  • Cornell: Liberian Codification Project - Comments on Civil Procedure Law (3 folders)

BOX 28.1 (Special Reserve)

  • Liberian Law Journal
    Volume 1 - Volume 6 No. 1
  • Citations to the Liberian Law Reports and Opinions in the term reports of the Supreme Court of Liberia
  • Session Laws:
    1958-59; 1959-60; 1960-61;1961-62; 1962-63; Extra 1963; 1963-64; 1964-65; 1967; 1971-72

BOX 29 (Special Reserve)

  • Constitution of the Republic of Liberia as Amended through May 1955
  • Titles 1-37:
    1) Aborigines
    2) Agriculture
    3) Aliens and Nationality
    4) Associations
    5) Banking & Insurance
    6) Civil Procedure
    7) Commercial
    8) Criminal Procedure
    9) Decedents
    10) Domestic Relations
    11) Education
    12) Elections
    13) Executive
    14) Foreign Relations
    15) General Business
    16) General Construction
    17) Injuries
    18) Judiciary
    19) Labor
    20) Legislative
    21) Local Government
    22) Maritime
    23) National Defense
    24) Natural Resources
    25) Patent, Copyright & Trademark
    26) Patriotic Observances
    27) Penal
    28) Postal Services
    29) Property
    30) Public Employment
    31) Public Health & Safety
    32) Public Lands
    33) Public Welfare
    34) Public Works
    35) Revenues & Finance
    36) Transportation & Communications
    37) Vehicle & Traffic

BOX 29.1 (Special Reserve)

  • General Info about Liberia
  • Session Laws:
    1943-44; 1944-45; 1945-46; 1946-47; 1947-48; 1948-49; 1949-50; Extra 1950; 1950-51; Extra 1951; 1951-52; 1952-53; 1953-54; Extra 1954; 1954-55; Extra March 1955; Extra June 1955; 1955-56; 1956-57; 1957-58
  • Executive Orders:
    Number 5 - July 11, 1958
    Number 6 - July 14, 1958

BOX 30 (Special Reserve)

  • Bibliographic Introduction to Legal History and Ethnology: Liberia (1966)
  • Liberian Studies Journal
    Volume I-II
  • Labor Law Materials
    ILO Reports: Minimum wage, Living and working conditions of indigenous peoples, Labor legislation in agriculture, Labor code - French territory, Extract from Nigerian Factories Act (1955)
  • Labor Law Materials
    Labor statistics, Holidays, Guide for labor inspections, Protection of wages, Conventions, Miscellaneous
  • Miscellaneous Laws, Regulations, Orders
    Consular Service Regulations - 1922
    Customs Tariff - 1935
    Customs Tariff - 1940
    Customs Regulations [Freeport, Executive Order No. 5] - 1948
    Moroura Freeport Regulations and Tariff Dues & Charges - 1948
    Criminal Code - 1919
    Internal Revenue Code - 1956
    International Trust Code of Liberia - 1948
    Liberian Corporation Law - 1948-51
    Maritime Code - 1949
    Maritime Law - 1958-64, 1969
    Minimum Wage Act - 1943
    Proposed Rules for Circuit Courts - 1953
    Rules of Courts

BOX 31 (Special Reserve)

  • Annual Survey of African Law
    Edited by Neville Rubin & Eugene Cotran
    Volume V-VII (1971-73)
  • His Challenge to Mankind: A Political Portrait of William R. Tolbert
    By Robert A. Smith
  • The Criminal Law and Procedure of Lagos, Eastern Nigeria and Western Nigeria
    By Sir Lionel Brett & Ian McLean
  • Liberian Law Reports
    Volume 2
  • The Political and Legislative History of Liberia
    Volume I-II

BOX 31.1 (Rare Book Room)

  • Acts passed during the session 1931-32
    Acts passed during the extraordinary session 1932
  • Acts passed during the session 1929; 1930-31
    Acts passed during the extraordinary session 1931
  • Acts passed during the session 1928
    Acts passed during the extraordinary session 1928
  • Acts passed during the session 1927-28
  • Acts passed during the session 1926
  • Acts passed during the session 1925-26
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