Niles' Weekly Register, March 19, 1825: Publication of the Maryland Jew Bill

Newspaper issue of Niles' Weekly Register, dated March 19, 1825. This issue contains the first non-governmental publication of the final Maryland Jew Bill, which passed the Maryland Legislature and became law upon passage by the Assembly on January 5, 1826. The main content is a page 2 report from "Maryland" detailing three acts passed by the legislature. The most significant is the Jew Bill, which had been debated for many years before its approval in 1825. The bill's text requires citizens professing the Jewish religion appointed to office or public trust to make and subscribe a declaration of belief in a future state of reward and punishment, replacing the existing constitutional declaration.

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