The Pacific Railway Acts of 1862 and 1864 granted federal support for the construction of the United States ' First Transcontinental Railroad, which was completed in 1869.

The non-canonical Acts of Paul and Thecla speak of the efficacy of prayer for the dead, so that they might be " translated to a state of happiness.

In early March Congress, led in part by Radical Republicans, passed the first in a series of four Reconstruction Acts, initially providing for the recognition of provisional governments to be established thereunder by the Southern states, on the condition that each state ratify the Fourteenth Amendment and assure suffrage for freedmen.

See the United Nations website for full text on " Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation ".

The author is traditionally identified as Luke the Evangelist ; see Authorship of Luke – Acts for details.

In fact, Fitzmyer believes that the preface of Luke should only be “ the starting point in the discussion of the aim of Luke-Acts .” Because the author ’ s intended purpose for the Book of Acts is not that straightforward, scholars have put forth four main claims to address this.

The magistrates even apologize to Paul and Silas for wrongfully putting them in prison ( Acts 16: 38-39 ).

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”

According to Richard I. Pervo, " Townsend's methodologically adventurous but ultimately cautious essay is another valuable lesson in the danger of establishing the date of Acts – or any work – by arguing for the earliest possible time of origin.

Many believe this group of texts comes from the original Book of Acts by looking at the Byzantine text for the whole of the New Testament.

One of the central themes of Acts, indeed of the New Testament ( see also Great Commission ) is the universality of Christianity — the idea that Jesus's teachings were for all humanity — Jews and Gentiles alike.

In Acts, attention is given to the religious persecution of the early Christians, as in the case of Stephen's martyrdom and the numerous examples are Paul's persecution for his preaching of Christianity.

The New Testament verses typically referenced are Matthew 26: 30 ; Acts 16: 25 ; Romans 15: 9 ; 1 Corinthians 14: 15 ; Ephesians 5: 19 ; Colossians 3: 16 ; Hebrews 2: 12, 13: 15 ; James 5: 13, which reveal a command for all Christians to sing.

Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.

While government authorities prepared lists of aliens for deportation, many aliens fled the country during the debate over the Alien and Sedition Acts, and Adams never signed a deportation order.

After the Starr Report was submitted to the House providing what it termed " substantial and credible information that President Clinton Committed Acts that May Constitute Grounds for an Impeachment ", the House began impeachment hearings against Clinton before the mid-term elections.

Bede also followed Eusebius in taking the Acts of the Apostles as the model for the overall work: where Eusebius used the Acts as the theme for his description of the development of the church, Bede made it the model for his history of the Anglo-Saxon church.

This panel met from 2006 through 2011 to attempt to implement the changes in the 2006 Act ( and later the 2007 and 2009 Acts ) where possible, and to attempt to alter the Acts where they were unworkable by providing expert advice to the Department in the drafting of new legislation amendments.

Following a successful referendum in 2011 on extending the law making powers of the National Assembly it is now able to make laws, known as Acts of the Assembly, on all matters in devolved subject areas, without needing the UK Parliament's agreement.

Following the referendum held in March 2011, in which the majority vote for the Assembly's law-making powers to be extended, Measures will be replaced by Acts of the Assembly.

In October 2011, Yeston's ballet Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in Three Acts premiered at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, with the Kansas City Ballet.

In April 2011 the Australian Government announced that Simpson would be one of a number of servicemen examined in an inquiry into " Unresolved Recognition for Past Acts of Naval and Military Gallantry and Valour.

*** Acts of Vengeance Omnibus ( hc, 744 pages, 2011, ISBN 0-7851-4464-1 ) includes:

Special exhibits have included David Rodgers Big Bugs ( 2005 ); The Holden Express Garden Railroad, created by artist Paul Busse ( 2007 ); Gnome and Garden, featuring 20 5 foot tall garden gnomes decorated by regional artists ( 2011 ) and Vanishing Acts: Trees Under Threat, a traveling exhibit created by the Morton Arboretum.

Her fifth book, Patriot Acts: What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic, was published on November 1, 2011.

Her fifth book, Patriot Acts — What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic, was published on November 1, 2011.

* Patriot Acts: What Americans Must Do to Save the Republic ( ISBN 978-1-4391-9492-8, 2011 ).

* Suspension of Disbelief, a play in Two Acts, 2011

Troupe 1576 had received a critic's choice superior rating in the 2011 District 8 Thespians One Acts festival, making them eligible to go to the Florida State Thespian State competition.

Bede's works included Commentary on Revelation, Commentary on the Catholic Epistles, Commentary on Acts, Reconsideration on the Books of Acts, On the Gospel of Mark, On the Gospel of Luke, and Homilies on the Gospels.

The Acts of the Apostles records the Council of Jerusalem, which addressed the question of observation of biblical law in the early Christian community which included Gentile converts.

Tertullian ( c. a. d. 160 – 225 ) wrote that when it was discovered that a church elder had composed a pseudonymous work, The Acts of Paul ( which included a purported Pauline letter, 3 Corinthians ), the offending elder “ was removed from his office ” ( On Baptism 17 ).

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

In 1987, he released Franks Wild Years ( subtitled " Un Operachi Romantico in Two Acts "), which included studio versions from Waits ' play of the same name.

This final Act of the British Parliament regarding Canada had a different name, since it renamed all of the unrepealed earlier British North America Acts, amended some of them, and repealed all others, patriated all remaining legislative and constitutional powers to Canada, and included the Constitution Act, 1982 as its schedule.

The chief political issues included opposition to the tax imposed by Congress to pay for the mobilization of the new army and the navy in the Quasi-War against France in 1798, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, by which Federalists were trying to stifle dissent, especially by Republican newspaper editors.

Early members of the WFL included Josephine Butler, leader of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts ; the Pankhursts ' friend Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy ; and Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch, daughter of US suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Acts with more conventional hard rock sounds included Andrew W. K., Beautiful Creatures and Buckcherry, whose breakthrough album 15 ( 2006 ) went platinum and spawned the single " Sorry " ( 2007 ), which made the Top 10 of the Billboard 100.

Descriptive titles began to be added to the enrolled Acts by the official clerks, as a reference aid ; over time, titles came to be included within the text of each bill.

Acts in this area included Gryphon, Gentle Giant and Third Ear Band.

The 1877 and 1878 Acts included a clause that:

Acts at the festival have included performances by Jan Garbarek and by Piirpauke.

In this period, British laws included various Test Acts to prevent governmental, judicial, and bureaucratic appointments from going to Roman Catholics.

In 1707, Acts of Union, ratifying the Treaty of Union that had been agreed the previous year, were passed by the parliaments of England and Scotland, thereby uniting the Kingdom of Scotland with the Kingdom of England ( which included the Principality of Wales ) into a new state with the name Great Britain.

Acts that played included The Prodigy, The Cranberries, Blur, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, Rage Against the Machine, Slayer, The Saw Doctors and Christy Moore.

The government had to fight smuggling, especially by American merchants, some of whose activities ( which included direct trade with the French, Spanish, Dutch, and Portuguese ) were classified as such by the Navigation Acts.

It was dissolved on 31 March 1934 ( Acts 1934, c. 187 ) The company was founded by Theodore Lyman Shaw, a member of a wealthy and prominent family from Wellesley, Massachusetts, whose ancestors included Civil War hero Robert Gould Shaw (" Robert Gould Shaw ," 1 ) Theodore Lyman Shaw was involved in a number of business projects, including the Marcus Lucius Quinn School of Music in Dorchester ; he also operated an advertising business ( Harvard University Class of 1905, 25th Anniversary Report, 575 ).

These Acts included the Boston Port Bill, the Massachusetts Government Act, and the Quartering Act.

The first three Acts all contained final date clauses beyond the annual renewal, this provision was not included in the 1989 Act.

Acts in 2007 have included Damien Rice, Foo Fighters, Kaiser Chiefs, Crowded House, Aerosmith, Damien Rice, The Who and Peter Gabriel.

Acts adopted here included the Northwest Ordinance, which set up what would later become the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, but more fundamentally prohibited slavery in these future states.

The series lasted 49 episodes ( called " Acts "), and also included two separate made-for-DVD specials, for a total of 51 acts.

Later Organic Acts have included: