OMNIBUS BILL
\ˈɒmnɪbəs bˈɪl], \ˈɒmnɪbəs bˈɪl], \ˈɒ_m_n_ɪ_b_ə_s b_ˈɪ_l]\
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A bill submitted to Congress by Henry Clay, January 29, 1850, at the time of the application of California for admission to the Union. The bill provided for the admission of California with her free constitution; territorial governments in New Mexico and Utah without express restriction upon slavery; a territorial boundary line between Texas and New Mexico in favor of the former; a more effective fugitive slave law; and denial to Congress of power to interfere with the slave trade between slave States. After much cutting and amendment the bill was passed in July, 1850, as a series of acts.
By John Franklin Jameson
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