Contemporary quarter sheep and paper over boards [binding quite worn]. 240pp. Toned. With the contemporary ownership signature of Elisa Gridley. Good+.Evans 34975. Skeel 484.

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29th Cong., 2d Sess. HED119. 454pp. Disbound, Very Good.

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[6], 320 pp, a clean text. Bound in very worn quarter sheep and paper over boards [front board detached, spine flaked]. Good+FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 7984.

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76pp, disbound, else Very Good.Evans 16812. Hildeburn 4013.

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18mo. 92, 38, 22 pp. Original wood boards, covered with marbled paper; and quarter sheep [quite worn but a firm binding]. Text Very Good. Ownership signature of David B. Rogers of New Fairfield, 1826 Felcone says that Haweis authored the second and third items, and that all three were first published in London in 1796. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Felcone Bibliography 977. Evans 34312.

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[2], xii, [18- List of Subscribers], 316 [i.e., 318], [2- Bookseller Advertisements] pp. Bound in original sheep [lightly rubbed] with raised spine bands. Inner hinges cracked, lacking front free endpaper. Text lightly toned and foxed. Several chips and tears, each with small text loss, Good. "The source account, taken in the main from Brainerd’s private papers and diary" [Eberstadt]. Larned calls it a "religious classic...Brainerd's life was very short (1718-1747), and his missionary activity extended over only 4 years, but his memory is imperishable, thanks to the fact that Jonathan Edwards wrote his memoir, and no student of American church history can pass his life by."  "Brainerd died at the home of Edwards, to whose daughter he was engaged to be married" [Felcone].FIRST EDITION. Evans 6311. Howes E56. 110 Eberstadt 116. Felcone Collection 68. Field 486 [1793 edition]. Larned 2992 [later edition]. Not in Streeter Sale or Siebert Sale.

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[2], 254pp. Light to heavy foxing, one short closed tear repaired [no loss]. Bound in original calf; probably rebacked early in its life, with original spine laid down, and a probably new gilt-lettered morocco spine label. An attractive contemporary binding. Good+. The first American printing of the two titles together.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 28904.

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[4], 13-1439, lxxix pp. Disbound, closed tear [no loss] to last leaf, Good+. This reprint of the proceedings of the Tenth Congress includes material on Senator Smith, General Wilkinson, and their involvement in the Burr treason allegations. The Appendix [pages 386-788] is "a copy of the proceedings and of the evidence exhibited on the arraignment of Aaron Burr and others, before the circuit court of the United States held in Virginia."

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59, [1 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wrapper chipping, minor wear, Very Good. Chronicling the history of Friends' opposition to slavery.

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Broadside, 6" x 8.5". Color lithograph, printed on card stock. Features a portrait of President Hyppolite of Haiti within a gold decorative frame, with his country's flag to the right, with the caption, "Hyppolite, President of Hayti." Beneath the flag is stamped, "No. 2357." At the bottom left corner is printed, "N.Y. Recorder Souvenir." Two tiny closed tears at edges, else Fine.

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Pictorial broadside, oblong, 5.75" x 17". Beautiful full color lithograph advertisement featuring an elaborate scene of the "climax" engine expelling steam and hooked up to a thresher with several men working, an "economizer" engine sitting idle to the left, a background of several trees and hills, a small cottage, and a lake with a sailboat upon it. Near Fine.  Robert Whitelaw [1827-1920], a native of Scotland, opened the first foundry of the Whitelaw Company in 1856 in a town west of Woodstock, Ontario. He later moved the foundry to Woodstock, was a busy businessman, and active in community affairs. In 1874, the town offered Mr. Whitelaw to assist his planned expansion of the company; if the business remained in Woodstock for eight more years, the loan would be canceled. In addition to agricultural machinery such as steam engines and threshers, his factory made sawing machines, cheese making machines, castings and fire hydrants. Some time after the expansion, the Company became known as Whitelaw's Oxford Foundry and Engine Works.

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Folded folio sheet. 7, [1 blank] pp. Generously margined, Near Fine.  Root had written "one of the best overland journals," printed in Galesburg in 1850 [Howes R436]. Root's "new mode of clarifying Cane Juice" is accomplished "by means of native clay." Its use "will produce the cheapest and best results of any process now in use." Root explains his concoctions. OCLC records only three locations for this rare item.FIRST EDITION. 36 Decker 350. OCLC 9320531[2- Huntington, Knox College, 21608890 [1- UC Berkeley] [as of April 2013]. Not in Sabin, Eberstadt, Soliday.

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36pp. Stitched, untrimmed. Very Good.  One of Welch's contributions to his pamphlet war with Zephaniah Swift over the removal of Swift's friend Oliver Dodge from his pulpit. Welch denounces Swift's "rant and ribaldry." FIRST EDITION. Evans 31607. NAIP w013227. Trumbull 1608.

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126pp, frontis illustration of Picton's sadistic torture of Calderon. Disbound, else Very Good. "One of the most sensational court cases ever tried in England" [Weinstein]. A young servant, not yet fourteen years old, who was suspected of stealing from her employer, Louisa Calderon was the victim of Picton's instruction, in his own "bloody" handwriting: "Inflict the torture on Louisa Calderon." He caused a rope to be tied to her wrists; the rope passed through a pulley; she was repeatedly raised and lowered onto a sharp spike of wood. Naturally, this activity caused pain and serious injuries.  This pamphlet includes the prosecution's opening statement, the testimony of Louisa, her cross-examination by defense counsel; the evidence and closing statement by the defense, arguing to no avail that the law of Spain governed the case and that the evidence did not support a charge of torture under Spanish law. Picton was originally found guilty, but won a reversal on appeal and was acquitted on his retrial; he later died at Waterloo.Weinstein, Against the Tide 32. Sabin 62684. LCP Supp. 1717 [related, 36-page printing].

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Broadside, 8" x 6 5/8". A few fox spots, Very Good.  This rare broadside prints Percy's Recipe for "dying ten yards of Woollen sulled Cloth, seven-eights wide..." He employs allum, logwood, vinegar, soap, copperas; and explains in detail the directions for their use. NAIP locates this item only at the New York Public Library and the American Antiquarian Society; the Connecticut Historical Society also has a copy. "Subscribed by John Percy, in presence of us, Uriah Tracy, William Edmond. N.B. Any public Body, Town, Company, or private Individual, purchasing a Right of the above Schedule, cannot divulge it but under the Penalty of the Law." Uriah Tracy was a Litchfield lawyer and graduate of Yale and the Litchfield Law School. He was U.S. Speaker of the House in 1793. William Edmond was a Connecticut lawyer and sometime U.S. Congressman. John Percy was born in 1774 and is listed in the 1800 United States Federal Census as living in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut with his wife and child. He married Polly Pond in 1799. [Cothren: HISTORY OF ANCIENT WOODBURY, CONNECTICUT VOLUMES I & III.]Rink 1838. Not in Evans. Shipton & Mooney 49133. Bristol B11107. NAIP w022079 [2- MWA, NN].

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vii, [1], 127, [1] pp, in modern half morocco and marbled boards. Minor foxing, blank inner margin archival repair to title leaf [no loss]. Ink number stamp on verso of title page and page 1, very faint blindstamp on leaf N2. Else Very Good.  This lengthy document, the first edition, lists the Resolutions adopted by a Committee of Pennsylvania county representatives at a meeting beginning on July 15, 1774, and reports their instructions to a general assembly scheduled to meet thereafter. The Resolves profess allegiance to the Crown, but insist that the colonists are entitled to "the same rights and liberties" as native-born Englishmen. They reject the authority of Parliament to legislate for the colonies, and hold any such presumption of authority to be "unconstitutional."  The Instructions are a careful and detailed elaboration on the Resolutions. Although Dickinson later refused to sign the Declaration of Independence, this is an important work in establishing the doctrinal bases for the separation from England. Indeed, by October 1774 "Dickinson's view was adopted as the official American position by the first Continental Congress" [Bailyn, Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 223]. FIRST EDITION. Howes D326. Adams Controversy 74-28a, Independence 110a. Evans 13247. Hildeburn 3003.

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[4], 49, [3 blanks] pp. Modern boards, Very Good plus.  The Academy here seeks "to controvert the opinion of the College of Physicians, respecting the origin of our late Epidemic." This pamphlet includes Governor Mifflin's letter to Benjamin Rush, requesting the Academy's counsel, which is that the yellow fever is "the bilious remitting fever of warm climates excited to a higher degree of malignity by circumstances to be mentioned hereafter," i.e., "putrid exhalations from the streets," and putrefactions from several ocean-going vessels which had docked in Philadelphia. Public health measures are suggested. The College of Physicians' report is included; it argues that the yellow fever is essentially different from the bilious fever. FIRST EDITION. Evans 34352. Austin 7.

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16pp. Disbound, some margins foxed. Good+.  One of the earliest Brooklyn imprints, this is the famous Address in which General Lee first uttered the memorable phrase, 'First in War, First in Peace, and First in the Hearts of his Countrymen.' Kirk issued a second edition later in the year. Printing began in Brooklyn, at Kirk's press, in 1799. FIRST BROOKLYN EDITION. Evans 3799. Stillwell 135.

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[2], 16, [2 blanks] pp. Stitched, lightly tanned, Very Good.  Crumpler delivered this scarce speech at a time of strong Union sentiment in Ashe County, which in February would reject secession by an overwhelming margin. But when President Lincoln called for troops after the fall of Fort Sumter, the tide turned in this western North Carolina district. Crumpler enlisted as a Confederate Cavalry officer in July 1861 and died in 1862 from wounds suffered at Willis's Church, Virginia.  In this speech, however, he charges "that the dangers which now menace the Government are the result of a deliberate plot to destroy the Union," engineered by the Southern Rights Democrats, those "disunionists" who met "at Charleston, in the National Convention held there last spring." The Abolitionists, "a leprous spot upon our body politic," too bear a major share of responsibility: "With hearts full of treason to the spirit of the Constitution, they have, for years, been digging at the foundation of our Government." He passionately urges preservation of the Union, with compacts assuring protection to the South. FIRST EDITION. Thornton [Off'l Pubs.] 1705. As of April 2013, OCLC records facsimiles only. Not in LCP, Bartlett, Nevins.

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78pp. Disbound and lightly worn; some marginalia and underlining, slight printer's flaw which does not eliminate any letters. Errata on verso of title page. Good+.  This London edition was printed in the same year as the Philadelphia first American edition. Livingston, the pioneer of Codification in America, prepared this introduction "after having, about two years ago, lost by an accidental fire, his first manuscript and all his notes." "Should this introduction receive the public patronage" the Code of Prison Discipline will be published. Livingston's great purpose is to determine the optimal "manner in which confinement is to be inflicted as a punishment, or used as a means of detention... In preparing the plan now submitted, I kept in view, as the great objects to be attained-- restraint, example, and reformation."  Marvin writes of Livingston: "No single writer, except Jeremy Bentham, has written so much upon Codification, or as learnedly, as Livingston. His Codes are much admired for their philosophy, apparent practicability, and the characteristic wisdom of their provisions." Marke 455. Sabin 41617n. I Harv. Law Cat. 1187.

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36pp, folding plate frontis, full-page map. Institutional rubberstamps at base of title page verso. Original printed wrappers [light rubberstamp, discard stamp on front wrapper]. Otherwise, Very Good.  "Missouri Imprints Inventory No. 197 cites only one copy. This tract is probably the first description of Iron mines west of the Mississippi. The Iron Mountains were located in St. Francis and Madison Counties. A proposal is made to make iron rails for a railroad from the mountains to the Mississippi" [Decker]. AII [MO] 197 [1]. 37 Decker 214. Not in Eberstadt, Soliday, Graff.

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Two folio documents, entirely in manuscript:  The Complaint, [4] pp. April 13, 1812. One sheet, folded to 8" x 12 1/2". Light wear, old folds [couple of short fold splits, small archival repairs, no text loss]. Good+;  Deposition of John Sigler, and Deposition of Michael Hauser, "aged 52 years." [4] pp. December 30, 1813. One sheet, folded to 8" x 12 1/2". Light wear, Very Good. John Sigler, aged 47, testified in this deposition that "he knew the said Negro Harry from a small boy," and "took him to be a harty able young fellow to work" and "a sound Negro." Hauser testified to Harry's desire not to be separated from his wife and children; and, if he were sold, his hope that the buyer would also buy his wife and children. It was then "generally understood" that Brengle was to purchase Harry and his family for a total of. Later that evening, "in a jocular conversation" with Hauser, he further testified, French said that "Harry was an idle, lazy good for nothing fellow, and one of the most worthless on the farm, that he would not give 2/6 for said Harry." But Hauser states that, several months after the sale, Brengle told him that he was "satisfied with his purchase or words to that effect."

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[24]pp, as issued, disbound, toned, some edge and corner wear occasionally affecting several letters, else Good+. With a woodcut portrait on title page, identified at the Guthman Sotheby's Sale as that of General George Washington.  Evans writes: "Portrait of Washington?" The Almanac prints the "Continuation of the Heroic Poem, entitled America Invincible"; an Essay "On the Art of Printing"; and a solicitation by Russell and Hugh Clean "for all kinds of linen and cotton and linen rags, or sail-cloth."Evans 17434. Drake 3310. NAIP w035943.

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12 leaves, as issued. With the full-page woodcut of Washington preceding the title page, as described in the title. Disbound, some edge wear, affecting several letters. Good to Good+.  Evans attributed authorship to Rittenhouse; but NAIP says, "The actual author was Daniel George." This is one of the three Weatherwise almanacs printed in Boston for the year 1784. The woodcut illustration is captioned, 'Washington- Victory doth thy Trumpets sound, Who are with Laurals cover'd round!'  The firm of Norman and White produced six imprints in 1783 and 1784, according to NAIP, and then disappeared. Evans 18164. Drake 3337. NAIP w036459.

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[24]pp, as issued. Disbound, toned, some wear, Good to Good+. With a woodcut of an astronomer searching the heavens on title page, and a portrait of John Hancock at page [17].  The portrait of Hancock, Governor of Massachusetts, precedes the printing of the Preamble to the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution and the Declaration of Rights. The Massachusetts Constitution, drafted by John Adams, served as the model for many other State Constitutions and remains, with some amendments, in effect today. The continuation of "the Heroic Poem, entitled, America Invincible," is also printed. Evans 17070. Drake 3301.

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12 leaves, as issued. Portraits of Generals Washington and Gates on title page. Disbound, complete, moderately worn, Good.  These portraits of "The Glorious Washington and Gates" were frequently reproduced in histories of the period, including, for example, Volume VI of Winsor's Narrative and Critical History..., page 311. The Almanac also prints 'A Farewell to Boston', a poem "by a young Lady on her embarking on board the Ship Symmetry, December 8, 1775, in order to quit that Capital." Evans 15705. Drake 3274.

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Small 4to. [24] pp. Three portraits. Light spotting, light wear [two small holes] and dusting, Good+. This is one of two Boston editions; the other was printed for Ezekiel Russell. Our offering "is doubtless the pirated edition anticipated by Russell in his advertisement" in Boston's newspapers December 23, 1771. [NAIP] The three portraits are of a dwarf, on the title page; John Dickinson, with caption "The Patriotic American Farmer...Who with Attic Eloquence and Roman Spirit, hath asserted the Liberties of the British Colonies in America"; and Mrs. Catharine M'Caulay [small hole obliterates the 'Ca' in her first name].  These portraits "are copies or versions of the three cuts in Russell's edition of Ames, two of which were by Paul Revere. Evidently these versions are also by Revere, as an entry in his Day book for December 21, 1771, records a charge against Edes & Gill 'to engraving 3 plates for Ames almanack.' The evidence suggests that Edes & Gill secured a copy of Russell's edition on the day it appeared and ordered reproductions of the cuts from Revere" [NAIP].Drake 3205. Evans 11961. NAIP w022505.

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Eight pamphlets, comprising the following Occasional Papers of the Slater Fund: Nos. 18, 20, 20 [second edition], 21, 22, 23, 28, 29. Paginated variously, each between @15 and 70 pages. All with original printed wrappers, glossy text pages, usually with photo illustrations. An occasional wrapper is loosened, a couple of rubberstamps, overall Very Good or better. Printed, where stated, in Lynchburg or Charlottesville. The Slater Fund was established by the industrialist John F. Slater in 1882 to help educate former slaves in the South. Under the original direction of former U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, the fund's Trustees sponsored Papers such as these to report on relevant developments. The Papers offer valuable information on the social and economic status of Southern Negroes in the early 20th century. These Papers include a Suggested Course of Study for County Training Schools for Negroes in the South [1917]; the first and second editions of Reference List of Southern Colored Schools [1918, 1921; Report on Negro Universities and Colleges, by W.T.B. Williams [1922]; Early Effort for Industrial Education, by Benjamin Brawley [1923]; A Study of County Training Schools for Negroes in the South, by Leo Favrot; The Slater and Jeanes Funds, an Educator's Approach to a Difficult Social Problem, by Will W. Alexander of Dillard University [1934]; Public Secondary Schools for Negroes in the Southern States of the United States [1935].

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24pp. Disbound without wraps, several fox spots, else Very Good. Renowned for his groundbreaking work in establishing penal codes, Livingston explains here why capital punishment should be banished from the criminal justice system. "The exalted standing and character of the author", according to the introductory Note, require "the attention of the members of the General Assembly of this State, and to the citizens generally." Livingston rebuts the argument of deterrence: "The fear of death will rarely deter from the commission of great crimes." And even those who commit horrible crimes may be capable of rehabilitation-- indeed, some such crimes "are, sometimes, produced by a single error." Moreover, Livingston reminds his readers, if more persuasion is needed, of the Holy command, "Thou Shall not Kill."Cohen 3820. AI 51308 [4].

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[2] pp. 8" x 12 1/2". Written entirely in manuscript, and signed by James Raymond, Attorney for the State. Docketed, "State of Md vs. Negro Brooks

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Three manuscript documents:  ONE: Indictment of Jonathan: Folio sheet folded to 7 1/4" x 11 3/4". [2], [1 blank], [1- docket- "Indicted- pleads not guilty." With names of witnesses "sworn to testify upon this bill of Indictment to the Grand Jury."  TWO: Slave Jonathan: Special Court of Oyer & Terminer and General Gaol Delivery. [1] page, 8" x 4/3/4". Listing witnesses and signed by Clerk F.M. Mantz.  THREE: Slave Stephen: Special Court of Oyer & Terminer & General Gaol Delivery. [1] page, 8" x 4 1/2". Grand Jury Inquest presents "Negro Stephen" on a charge of murdering Owings, on information of named witnesses.The three all with light wear, Good+ or so.  Several other Negro Slaves were indicted and convicted for this incident. They were all hanged in January 1816, at the usual hanging spot, called the "Old Magazine" on the Harper's Ferry Road. [Scharf, History of Western Maryland...[2003], page 424].

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Manuscript folio sheet, punch-holes at top margin, pale blue paper. Folded to [3], [1 blank] pp. 8 1/2" x 14". Written in neat ink manuscript. Signed at the end by Sam. Skolfield, Recorder, and by appraisers Richard K. Massey and William Sowell, and witnesses William A. Bryan and James M. Elam. Very Good. The appraised value of the slaves varied from $150 ["Malvina a Girl aged 2 years"] to $450 ["Missy a Girl aged 12 years"] to [young men in their 20's, including, for example, "Ralph, a Negro man aged 28 years"]. Skolfield, born in Iberville Parish, served with the Louisiana Militia in the War of 1812, and died in East Baton Rouge Parish in 1866. Elam was a Baton Rouge lawyer, a Whig, and served under the command of Stephen Decatur in the War of 1812. William A. Bryan was editor of the Iberville South newspaper.

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Manuscript broadside, 8" x 13", docketed on verso. Old folds, light wear, else Very Good. "A certain Catharine Lewis was on the ninth day of May in the year of our Lord [1818] in all form of law bound as an apprentice to David Hines and his wife Jane until Catharine Lewis arrive to the age of sixteen...and that Catharine Lewis did unlawfully absent herself from David Hines and his wife. And the Jurors further present that Nancy Lewis a free Mulatto well knowing that the said Catharine Lewis had unlawfully absented herself from her said Master and Mistress, with force and arms at Frederick County did willingly and wittingly harbor and entertain the said Catharine Lewis for the space of twelve hours..." Signed by the Attorney of the fifth Judicial District, docketed on verso, "Witness for the State

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56pp, bound in later cloth. Light rubberstamp on title page and first text page, browned, Good+.  Mississippi's Constitution, the first after the 1832 revisions, comprises pages 1-29. It was enacted January 26, 1861, a little more than two weeks after Mississippi seceded. A constitutional provision prohibited the Legislature from emancipating slaves without the owners' consent, except for "distinguished service" to the State, in which case the owner would be compensated. FIRST EDITION. P&W 3291 [6]. Crandall 1658 [1]. Owen 744. Not in Marke, Harv. Law Cat.

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140pp, light to moderate foxing. Bound in original publisher's cloth [bit of chipping, front hinge starting]. Good+, with W.A. Leary's Bookseller Ticket on front pastedown.  This is the first edition of "the earliest of the three most important Supreme Court decisions on slavery" [Cover, Justice Accused 166] [the others being Dred Scott and Ableman v. Booth]. It is also the first Supreme Court case construing the Constitution's Fugitive Slave Clause [Article IV Section 2], requiring delivery to the master of his slave who had escaped into another State. With the arguments of counsel, it precedes even the official printing, a measure of public excitement. The case "rivals Dred Scott v. Sandford in historical importance" [Fehrenbacker, The Dred Scott Case 43].  Prigg was a Maryland professional slave-catcher. He seized Margaret Moran, an alleged fugitive, in Pennsylvania, and took her back to Maryland. He had not, as required by Pennsylvania law, obtained a State official's Certificate of Removal; indeed, a Pennsylvania court had refused to issue a Certificate. Pennsylvania indicted him for kidnapping; Maryland extradited him to Pennsylvania, where he was tried and convicted. The issue on appeal was the extent, if any, to which State requirements could alter the Federal constitutional provisions, as elaborated by Congress's Fugitive Slave Act of 1793.  Justice Story wrote the Opinion for the Court, Chief Justice Taney concurring, with only one dissent. The Court held that Congress had exclusive power to regulate the rendition of fugitive slaves. Pennsylvania's additional requirement of a Certificate of Removal was void. The Court also held that slave-catchers had a right of 'self-help': that is, they could seize alleged fugitives without judicial approval. But, the Court held, the federal government lacked power to compel State officials to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. These disparate conclusions increased already-heightened friction between Slave States-- thus emboldened to pursue self-help-- and Free States, thus encouraged to decline aid to slave-catchers. Finkelman 61-63. LCP 8466. Sabin 61207.

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Oval gem-sized tintype, @9/16" x 13/16", in embossed Carte de Visite mount. The photograph is a head and shoulder portrait of a uniformed member of the Hartford Cornet Band. His cap has the initials HCB surrounded by a laurel leaf appliqué. His jacket has cloth bars at the shoulders and metal buttons. Name of photographer "Treat" on verso. The tintype's size and style likely date it from 1860s-1870s. Very Good.  The Hartford Cornet Band of Connecticut, with J.F. Stratton as Captain, was organized and accepted as a Regimental Band in 1855 per Regimental Order No. 68, dated Hartford, Aug. 30, 1855, signed by S.A. Cooley, Colonel First Regiment, First Brigade, C.M. The Band rallied for Lincoln during his visit to Connecticut in March 1860, greeted him at the train station upon his arrival, furnished music before his speech on March 5th, and escorted him to his hotel for a post-speech reception. The Band merged into a Wide Awake marching unit and entered the Civil War in 1861. ["Abraham Lincoln and Connecticut," Abraham Lincoln's Classroom presented by The Lincoln Institute, American History Project of The Lehrman Institute; and Regimental Order, No. 68, accessible through the Wood Library Museum in PDF format.]

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xxiii, [1 blank], 1057, [1 errata] pp. Some toning. Bound in institutional buckram, rubberstamp on title page, else Very Good. The first and only Confederate printing of the Code of Georgia. Certainly one of the largest books printed in the Confederacy, it contains the Ordinance of Secession, the Constitution of the State of Georgia, and the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. De Renne 618. Parrish & Willingham 2787. Crandall 1531. I Harv. Law Cat. 750.

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Small broadsides, from 3.75" x 6" to 5.5" x 8.5", most printed on white paper, a few on blue. Occasional light scattered foxing, light toning, minor wear. Very Good. The Brooklyn City Guard was formed in August 1842, as a volunteer military company. A light artillery unit, it was celebrated by Brooklynites as a fashionable military outfit known for its drills, parades, and balls. Songs-- "The Brooklyn City Guard Quick Step" and "Olney's Quick Step"-- were composed in the Guard's honor. The Guard remained an independent organization until 1847, when it joined the 13th New York Regiment. James N. Olney was the first Captain, a position he held for several years; he then moved to California during the Gold Rush, where he became a leader of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee; he would command the 2nd California Regiment in the Civil War. [Howard: THE EAGLE AND BROOKLYN... VOL. 2. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle: 1893. Page 837.] The Orders include matters such as drills and parades, upcoming inspections, adoption of regulations, funeral announcements, appointments of officers, and planned excursions.

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Original printed wrappers, stitched. 53, [1 blank] pp. Very Good.  Lord argues that "a uniform National currency is indispensable to the interests and welfare of the people." Congress ought to make Treasury notes legal tender. Lord had a roller-coaster career. Initially quite successful in business, he founded the Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, the New York Sunday School Society, the University of the City of New York and Auburn Theological Seminary, and was the first president of the New York & Erie Railroad. But he lost everything during the Panic of 1857. During the Civil War years, when he wrote this pamphlet, he was forced to depend on the kindness of relatives for his support. DAB's sketch of Lord's life notes that this pamphlet attracted the attention of the Lincoln Administration; William Seward consulted with him on national fiscal policy.FIRST EDITION. Sabin 42024.

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Original printed glossy wrappers [light fading to lettering]. Stitched. 10, [2 blanks] pp. Near Fine. Founded in 1847 as the Rock Island and LaSalle Rail Road Company, the Chicago and Rock Island reincorporated in 1851 and adopted these bylaws in 1858. In 1880, the Company was reorganized as the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway. 131 Eberstadt 354.

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54pp, disbound and foxed. Good+. Romaine scolds Calhoun for being the "unequaled advocate" of the "anti-federal germ." Romaine warns against the notion that the States are Sovereign-- this is "a solecism in language and false in fact, to call that Sovereign, which is subject to the control of another." Undertaking a careful discussion of the foundations of the Union, Romaine exposes the fallacy of Nullification and State Sovereignty. Cohen 6312. II Turnbull 286. AI 14553 [5].

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93pp, stitched, gathered signatures. Lightly toned, minor edge wear, else Very Good.  First Lieut. Morton of the Corps of Engineers reviews the topography of the harbor, and the history of maritime battles, in his report to Secretary Floyd. Sabin 51003.

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32pp, disbound [with later stitching], light wear, else Very Good. The New York minister preaches an early and "ardent" July 4th sermon, celebrating American independence and the thriving American republic.FIRST EDITION. Evans 27525.

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104pp, foxed, untimmed with wide margins [margins lightly to moderately foxed], bound in contemporary cloth with spine label. Good+.  The talented and versatile Dix, distinguished for his probity "and an amount of learning remarkable in politics" [DAB], wrote this study when he was not yet thirty years old. Here he traces the City's "origin in commercial interests," from the Dutch West India Company's early 17th century explorations; its rise to pre-eminence as "a general mart for the exchange of foreign and domestic productions;" the development of its municipal government, including criticism of the power of police judges to commit to jail any vagrant or disorderly person without trial by jury; population growth and characteristics, observing "that natives of almost every country in the world may be found in the streets and counting-houses;" real and personal property, canals, natural resources, and commercial activity. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 20340. AI 28710. II Appleton 184. Not in Rink, Eberstadt or Decker.

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ILLUSTRATED WITH NUMEROUS ETCHINGS, AND A PLAN SHOWING THE STATE OF THE RUINS, TO WHICH IS ADDED A LIST OF NAMES OF THE PERSONS BURNT OUT, AND OF REMOVALS, FORMING A CONCISE BUT USEFUL SUPPLEMENT TO THE NEW-YORK DIRECTORY, &C. &C. &C. [New York: C. Foster. 1835]. Stitched, 54pp, four full-page sketches of the Exchange and the Old Slip, but LACKS the map. Scattered light foxing. Very Good.  This is an account of the "Great Fire of 1835," in which [on December 16] 674 buildings were destroyed in the area of Wall, Broad, and South Streets. "Some New Yorkers attributed the severity of the fire of 1835 to the negligence of the volunteer companies," which [under the influence of Tammany Hall] played a powerful role in city politics." Encyclopedia of New York City 410. This printing includes, in addition to the sketches, a list of the Pearl, Water, Front, South, and Wall Street buildings, occupants, and nature of businesses lost in the fire; as well as those in the Merchants' Exchange, Phoenix Buildings, Exchange Place, William Street, and elsewhere. Also included is an alphabetical Directory of Removals. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 25201.

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Original printed brown wrappers [entitled, 'Ex Post Facto Laws by Judicial Legislation!!'], stitched. 40pp. Light wear, Very Good. Presentation inscription on front wrapper to Whiting Griswold, and addressed to him on plain rear wrapper. Griswold was from Greenfield, Massachusetts, active in public affairs, would become active in the Republican Party, and was a Republican elector in the 1864 elections. The Statement is an impassioned protest against the "usurpation of power" by the Massachusetts Supreme Court which, the author claims, affirmed the conviction of a man for selling liquor in violation of a statute which had been repealed. "Where is the authority to be found which gives the Supreme Court the power to REVIVE and clothe with constitutional authority, a repealed law?" The Court had reasoned that the "repeal by implication" of a law revived its predecessor statute. Junius expresses his outrage. Cohen 9738. Sabin 36921. OCLC 46326401 [2- Yale, Newberry] [as of March 2013].

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Original printed wrappers [lightly foxed], stitched. 108pp. Front free endpaper foxed, else light occasional foxing, minor wear. Very Good. Reverend Cheever, opposing O'Sullivan's arguments, justifies capital punishment as an ordinance promulgated by God to correct the consequences of "the divine lenity in the case of Cain." When given the "assurance that his own life would not be taken," men are more likely to commit murder. Indeed, "the crime of murder had become frightfully common, the earth being filled with violence." The "Divine Legislator" thus made "a covenant with Noah and his posterity" to correct this evil by imposition of capital punishment.Cohen 3800. AI 43-1030 [5].

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vi, 238 pp Original full sheep [some rubbing]. Light to moderate foxing, heavy spotting at pages 146-147; leaf 87-88 bound out of sequence between pages 92/93. Front free endpaper excised; subsequent blank with neat rectangular excision from top half. Presentation copy from Reverend William Meade, the compiler of this work, the future Episcopal Bishop of Virginia, and a founder of the Colonization Society. Two contemporary inscriptions dated 1824 and 1827. Good.  Bacon, who had been Minister of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Maryland, published these sermons in London in 1749-1750, including two which he had preached to a congregation of Maryland slaves. Bishop Meade, persuaded that slaves required religious instruction, arranged for their publication in 1813. He also caused to be published here a variety of other material for that purpose: the most interesting of these is a piece entitled 'A Dialogue,' which includes an early appearance of the character of 'Sambo'.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. LCP 762. Haynes 860. 133 Eberstadt 928. Not in Sabin, Work, Blockson.

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64pp. Bound in modern leather. Mild wear. An attractive copy, Very Good.  "First published in 1756. Late in 1759 the Society of Friends in Philadelphia ordered the publication of this piece in an edition of 4000 copies" [Miller]. An Irish Quaker and Dublin physician, Rutty wrote books on Ireland, religion, and natural history. "Rutty, an orthodox Quaker, the historian of Irish Quakerism, deprecated the worldliness of his co-religionists, and their contemporary neglect of the Holy Bible, and the historical facts of revelation." Richard S. Harrison, DR. JOHN RUTTY OF DUBLIN: A QUAKER POLYMATH IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT [2011].  His well-known tendency minutely to dissect his own faults, and those of others, is suggested by the chapter headings of this book: Sect I. Of Recreations, Sect II. Of Superfluities in Meats, Drinks, Apparel and Furniture. Sect III. Of Superfluity in Trading. Sect IV. Of the vain Honours of this World. Sect V. Of the Payment of Tythes. Sect VI. Of the Observation of the Days, called Holy-days.FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Evans 8486. Miller 719. Hildeburn 1642.

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362pp. Original brown pebbled cloth with gilt title on front board and spine. Bookplate of 'Mr. W. Emlen Roosevelt

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Original publisher's cloth [gilt spine lettering dulled]. [8], 181, [1 blank], [9], [1 blank] pp. Folding color 'Map of the Great West,' [from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean]. Ownership inscription of well known 19th century horticulturist and Harvard graduate Henry Winthrop Sargent: "H.W. Sargent, Fishkill on Hudson. Nov. 1869." Very Good plus. The copyright was entered in 1866; the advertisement for the Holladay Overland Mail and Express Company is dated April 1866, the latest stated date in the book. An 1865 printing has a slightly different title. Advertisements for merchandise useful to the traveler, miner, or emigrant precede the title page, and follow page 181. A descriptions of each State and Territoriy West of the Mississippi is included, with information about rail, steam, and stage routes, tables of distances; a table of contents and list of advertisers are included. The book's owner, Henry Winthrop Sargent, was a well-known horticulturist. The Sargent Weeping Hemlock is named after him.Howes H56. Graff 1726. Wagner-Camp 417 and Streeter Sale 3075 [1865 ed.].

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[1], iii, 43, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, toned with light foxing, Good+.  Stock, who dedicates this pamphlet to Benjamin Rush, was an Englishman who also wrote theatrical criticisms for the Port Folio in 1801-1803. He later wrote Medical Collections on the Effect of Cold as a Remedy [London: 1806]; and Memoir of Thomas Beddoes [Bristol: 1811]. See, Ellis: Joseph Dennie and his Circle, University of Texas Studies in English No. 3 [1915], page 159. Like most academic production, this learned Essay is abundantly footnoted. Evans 32883. Austin 1829.

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Pages [145]-160 [as issued]. Stitched in original printed wrappers with wrapper title [as issued]. Volume I, No. X, for October, 1833. Generously margined, untrimmed. Wrappers chipped at extremities, Very Good.  This issue is devoted entirely to "slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia."Dumond 3. Lomazow 279. Sabin 81731.

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64pp, stitched in original printed wrappers. Wrappers a bit edge-chipped, else a clean and Very Good text.  Seward was counsel to Fitch, allegedly the "chief conspirator" in a plot to sabotage the Michigan Central Railroad, whose newly built and unfenced line had killed cattle and other livestock grazing onto the Road's right-of-way. "The railroad, instead of trying to mitigate the controversy, acted in a high-handed manner," and brought suit after the burning of its freight house in Detroit. [Greenly]. Fitch and others, arrested for the crime, were denied bail; he died in jail during his trial. This piece presents Seward's compelling jury argument; it was also printed in Detroit in the same year.Cohen 12146. Not in Sabin or Eberstadt.

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73, [1 blank], 19, [1 blank], 2 pp. One rubberstamp on blank portion of title page, mild wear, Very Good.[bound with] REPORTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, PASSED AT THE ANNUAL SESSION OF 1850. Columbia, S.C.: Steam-Power Press of I.C. Morgan. 1850. 245, [1 blank], 7. [1 blank] 2 pp. Clean text, mild lower corner creasing, Near Fine.[bound with] JOURNAL OF THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AT ITS ANNUAL SESSION, COMMENCING NOV. 25, 1850. Columbia, S.C.: A.S. Johnston, Printer to the Senate. 1850. 239, [1 blank] pp. Near Fine.[bound with] JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA; BEING THE ANNUAL SESSION OF 1850. Columbia, S.C.: I.C. Morgan. 1850. 280, [2], 37, [1 blank] pp. Near Fine.The four imprints bound together in contemporary quarter sheep [chipped and worn] and cloth, hinges starting. These four separate imprints track the actions of the South Carolina legislature during the pivotal year 1850. In addition to incorporating Furman University and passing a variety of other laws, the Legislature expressed its outrage at the Compromise of 1850 by calling for the appointment of delegates to a Southern Congress, and for a Convention of the People, for the purpose "if possible of restoring the Constitutional rights of the South" and "with the view and intention of arresting further aggressions." In similar vein, an Act "to provide for the defence of the State" was passed. Also printed are various Department reports, doings of the Bank of South Carolina and South Carolina College, the State Debt to the Catawba Indians, a Tribute to John C. Calhoun, laments for the subversion of the U.S. Constitution by the forces of Consolidation.III Turnbull 84 [first item].

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4 vols.: port. frontis, vi, [1], [blank], 590; port. frontis, [4], 493; port. frontis, [4], 519; port. frontis, [4], 516, [8] [index], [10] [subscriber list], [1] [directions to binder]. Plates: vol. I- two [of 2]; vol. II- two [of 2]; vol. III- five [with the hand-colored tobacco plant; the Directions call additionally for a Plan of Washington, but this is normally present only with the Atlas, and is not included here]; vol. IV- sixteen [of 16]. The Directions to Binder collate the plates. Two rubberstamps on the title page of each of the first three volumes, one rubberstamp on title page of fourth volume; occasional rubberstamp elsewhere. Else Very Good, in attractive modern quarter morocco with gilt spine lettering and marbled boards.  Howes calls this the "best" edition. An Atlas for the work was issued, but it is "exceedingly rare" [Jenkins] and not present here. With the historic engraving of a Tobacco Plant, the first hand-colored plate published in a book about America, along with fine engravings of George Washington (first frontispiece), Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, William Winterbotham, Towns in Kentucky, Birds (Whooping Crane, Baltimore Oriole, Avocet), Animals (Bison, Elk, Alligator, Cougars, Armadillo). An abundance of historical information on early America: State Constitutions, colonists, the Revolutionary War, histories of States, population data [which includes the number of slaves in States, including Northern States]. There is also historic numismatic and currency content, as well as much on exports (whaling, sperm oil and whale bones, &c., spirits and rum and more), and much natural history informationHowes W581. Evans 31647. III Jenkins 711.

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Original sheep [lightly rubbed, a sturdy binding], with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. xviii, [17]-932 pp [as issued]. Institutional bookplate on front pastedown, light blindstamp, else clean and Very Good. With table of contents and index, and a variety of statutes, including detailed regulation of slaves and free Negroes, the Militia, civil and criminal procedure, incorporations, other matters. AI 51716 [5]. Babbitt 268.

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Modern buckram. xliv, [2], 768 pp [as issued]. Clean and Very Good, except for an institutional rubberstamp on title page. With detailed regulations concerning slavery and Free Negroes, this Digest includes a complete index of all the subjects encompassed. Clay was an early settler of the Mississippi Territory, in the Huntsville area, before Alabama was excised from the Territory. He served in the Territorial Legislature and at the Alabama 1819 Constitutional Convention, and became that State's first Chief Justice at the age of 29. He later served as Governor and U.S. Senator. He was the father of Clement Claiborne Clay, who would be Alabama's Senator in the 1850's and a leading advocate of Southern Rights in the Territories. FIRST EDITION. Ellison 473. Owen 865. I Harv. Law Cat. 24. Cohen 5621.

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Modern buckram. xxxiv, [7]-1066 pp. Rubberstamp on title page, tape repair to last leaf [no loss], else Very Good. This is the first Digest of Alabama laws. It is organized alphabetically by subject, with detailed regulations concerning slavery, Free Negroes, and "Mulattoes." It includes a complete index of all the subjects encompassed. Toulmin had been a Territorial Judge in Alabama and Mississippi; earlier, he had been Kentucky's Secretary of State. "By any standard, his 1823 Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama is an impressive compilation. Nearly a thousand pages, it encompasses statutes of the Mississippi and Alabama territories as well as the acts of the Alabama state legislature. It is unmatched as a historical document of the Old Southwest and illustrates well how Toulmin shaped the public institutions of the wild frontier" [Encyclopedia of Alabama]. Cohen 5616. Babbitt 8.

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Attractive contemporary sheep [a hinge just starting], with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels. 488, LXVIII pp. Institutional stamp on front pastedown, light blindstamp on title page, marginal rubberstamps on title page and a couple of other blank margins, margin chip to last leaf without text loss. Else clean text and Near Fine.  The first laws of the Washington Territory, providing a picture of the concerns and activities of this new western territory.II Harv. Law Cat. 874. Babbitt 601. Not in Cohen.

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396pp. Several light rubberstamps, some leaves lightly toned. Bound in later cloth [some spotting], with morocco spine titles and gilt institution name at base of spine, Good+. These are the first State laws. As a condition of Michigan's admission to the Union as a State, it had to settle its boundary with Ohio and the dispute which had erupted into the so-called Toledo War. This Legislature enacted a bill complying with this requirement. A List of Acts and an Index are included.AII [Michigan] 304. Babbitt 248.

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[5], 4-154, [6], [1 errata], [1 blank] pp. Disbound, loosening, else Very Good. Jonathan Williams was the Translator of this detailed essay on the alteration, manufacture, and fabrication of field pieces; gun carriages, cartridges, etc. There are two states of Gathering A: in this copy, the last word of the second line on page [4] is 'English.' A second volume, consisting of plates, is apparently a separate imprint and not offered here. AAS's copy is also unaccompanied by the volume of plates. Evans 38467. Rink 2177. Sowerby- Jefferson Library 1161. NAIP w028358 [10].

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Small broadside ticket, 3" x 4.5". Woodcut illustration of the Democratic party logo featuring Andrew Jackson's portrait next to a hickory tree and harp, all beneath a banner which reads "Jackson and Liberty." Moderately tanned and spotted, about Good+. The Maryland State Archives lists these eight men as Democratic electors in the 1852 presidential election. Franklin Pierce and William R. King, the Democratic candidates, received Maryland's eight electoral votes and won the election.

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4.25" x 5.5". Original stiff paper wrappers with gilt lettering [light edgewear], folded. Inside the wrappers is a meter rule that folds out to 40" long. On the recto are illustrations of two rulers, side by side, measuring 36" and 100cm in length. Beneath the rulers are explanations of the metric system and its units, as well as several tables of measures. Very Good.  The verso has an advertisement for the Centennial Exhibition at Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, from May 10 to November 10, 1876. Several pictures of the Centennial Buildings and the commemorative medal are included, with some facts about the Exposition and featured buildings. OCLC 48248333 [2-Yale Univ., Hagley Mus. & Libr.] [as of March 2013].

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11, [1 blank] pp. Caption title [as issued], disbound. Signed in type by D.W. Perley, Attorney for Respondents. Very Good.  Perley's memorandum rebuts claims that San Francisco has no duty to pay a debt due his client.

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iv, 919, [1 errata] pp, disbound. Moderately foxed, institutional rubberstamp on title page and page 79. Minor wear to blank outer corners and edges. Good+.  The Preface tells the story of the Convention, "an assembly of men which has scarcely ever been surpassed in the United States. Some have even held it to be equal to the celebrated Convention, which met in Virginia in the year 1788, to pass upon the Federal Constitution." Presidents Madison and Monroe participated. This volume presents the complete proceedings: "not a resolution, nor projet, nor vote has been designedly overlooked: Scarcely a Debate, which is not attempted to be sketched." II Swem 10154. II Harv. Law Cat. 848. AI 5292 [4].

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64pp. Original printed wrappers [scattered foxing, a few chips, large tear at top corner of rear wrap [no text loss]. Top edge of text chewed in blank upper margin, beginning at page 17and continuing through to final page. Text foxed, a few pencil notations. Good.  Benjamin Coleman Smith [1800-1861] was born in Windsor, Vermont. He graduated Auburn Theological Seminary in 1828 and was ordained in Windsor on June 22, 1836. He was the chaplain of Auburn Prison for twelve years and Pastor of the Prattsburgh Church from 1844-59. [GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL CATALOGUE OF AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 1818-1918, Page 34.]  In July of 1856, the Presbytery commenced "a rush, arbitrary and relentless prosecution" against Smith, who had allegedly misrepresented the subject of a sermon, and slandered the Presbytery. The outraged Smith presents his side of the story in this pamphlet. The presbytery met for trial on Aug. 31, 1857, but the case was settled with both the presbytery and Smith confessing to "needless mistrust and haste." [Miller: THE HISTORY OF THE PRESBYTERY OF STEUBEN. Angelica, NY: 1897. Page 9.] OCLC locates seven copies under two accession numbers, as of May 2013.

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Later cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gilt institution stamp at spine base, bookplate. 74pp, lightly spotted. Good+.  With the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, including the proposed 13th on titles of nobility. The Session emphasized incorporations and territorial roads. An index is included.

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viii, [2], 516 pp. Modern buckram, with title stamped on spine. Blank edge repair to title leaf, scattered text toning, Very Good. With some learned manuscript side margin notes. A scarce, early territorial imprint, with an elaborate table of contents and statutes on establishing a temporary government for the Territory, civil and criminal procedures, counties, taxes, etc. FIRST EDITION. AII [Idaho] 32. Babbitt 98.

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Original printed wrappers [lightly chipped], stitched, 15pp. Clean text, Good+. Amicus issues a powerful dissent from President Andrew Johnson's policy of Reconstruction, particularly his single-handed assumption of power and his issuance of wholesale pardons to former Confederates. Johnson, who had attracted Lincoln's attention for his bravery as wartime Union Governor of Tennessee, did not dislike slavery nearly so much as he resented upper-class plantation owners, who had mocked his lowly upbringing. Once these men groveled at his feet for pardons, Johnson became putty in their hands. Amicus argues that Congress has the power to determine the requirements for readmission of States to the Union, and that Johnson's issuance of pardons before conviction of crime is unconstitutional. Johnson has unconstitutionally "undertaken to carry out the laws respecting Treason, and to wash the bloody hands of conquered rebels, whether repentant or not, and to place them upon a par with loyal citizens-- the survivors of the many thousands who have been maltreated and murdered, or inhumanly starved to death by the agents of these same States who had confederated together and levied war against the United States!"FIRST EDITION. Bartlett 4014.

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4to. Original printed yellow wrappers [dirty, edge-worn], stitched [loosening]. Eleven hand-colored maps, including North America, the United States , New England, Middle States with part of the Southern States, Ohio and Indiana. Covers worn, maps Very Good. The maps are dated 1828-1830. Mexico includes all of California and today's American Southwest; the Oregon and Missouri Territories encompass all of today's Northwest and Upper Midwest; Texas and Arkansas Territories are shown with their then-boundaries.

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Later cloth, [gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gilt institution bookplate and name stamped on spine]. 952, 46, [2], 91, [1blank] pp. Lightly toned, a couple of light rubberstamps, else Very Good.  General and Special Laws are included. Joint Memorials complain about the Umatilla Indians, who are ruining their reservation; their title should be extinguished and the land opened to settlers. The Supreme Court decisions from the September Term 1870, through the December Term 1874, are printed.Babbitt 412.

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177, xiii, [1 blank] pp. One rubberstamp on first title page, text lightly spotted, hole at last leaf affecting several words in the Index, a few leaves trimmed closely and shaving a few letters. Good+. [bound with] LAWS OF THE STATE OF INDIANA, PASSED AND PUBLISHED, AT THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, HELD AT CORYDON... [1822]. Corydon: Carpenter and Douglass. 1823. 165, vi, viii, [1 blank] pp. Very Good. Bound together in modern buckram, with title stamped on spine. Two early Indiana imprints, in very nice condition. These early Statehood laws enact a detailed regulation of the judicial system and civil procedure; define crimes and regulate impeachments; prohibit immoral practices, i.e., breaking the Sabbath; organize Counties, and treat a variety of other subjects. Byrd & Peckham 134, 158. Babbitt 113.

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24pp, stitched, some dusting. Else Very Good. The Civil War was especially bitter in Tennessee, and its aftermath reflected the continuing strife. The Convention sought to "place the Republican army of Tennessee in condition to make a bold and successful resistance to the rapid and unblushing efforts of a rebel Democracy to strike down all that remains to protect those who loved and dared help maintain the Union when it was in danger." The Convention urges all Union Men "in every county to defeat the nefarious schemes of a horde of States Rights Democrats." The Rebels continue "subverting all that is left of Republicanism in the Constitution and laws of the State."  Speakers denounce the Klan, "a vast secret organization...nightly riding over the country in masks and shrouds, butchering, in cold blood, at the hour of midnight, the unoffending citizens, and such acts either suppressed or grossly misrepresented and directly or indirectly justified." Allen 7270. OCLC records six locations, only one of which is in Tennessee [Knox County Public Library], under two accession numbers, as of March 2013.

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Broadside, 5" x 13". Light spotting and wear, two short closed margin tears. Good+. This pro-Temperance broadside rebuts the canard that the Sons of Temperance are the prime force behind enactment of the Maine Liquor Law. "Men of all denominations and parties are firm supporters of this law; look everywhere, and you find it depends not alone upon the Sons of Temperance." The broadside also denies "that this law makes the man who buys liquor a criminal. An absolute falsehood-- not one word of truth in it." Opponents of the law are "lying." Indeed, "DROWNING MEN CATCH AT STRAWS. BUT THE HAND-WRITING IS UPON THE WALL. A Prohibitory Liquor Law must and will be enacted."Not located on OCLC or the AAS web site, or in Williamson or Sabin.

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xvi, 149, [1 blank pp. [bound with] SESSION LAWS OF WYOMING TERRITORY, PASSED BY THE SIXTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY. CONVENED AT CHEYENNE, NOVEMBER 4, 1879. Cheyenne, Wyo.: Leader Steam Book and Job Print. 1879. viii, 185 pp, with tipped-in errata slip. Bound together in contemporary calf, front hinge starting. Morocco spine labels chipped, several institutional rubberstamps and a binder stamp. Else a clean text, Very Good.  With Lists of Federal and Territorial Officers, a Table of Contents, and a detailed Index.AII 37, 49. Babbitt 617.

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288pp. Bound in original half sheep and marbled boards with morocco spine label [lightly rubbed, front hinge detaching]. Several institutional stamps, and bookplate on front pastedown, else Very Good. With Compliments Slip of G.W. French, Secretary Wyoming Territory The laws treat a variety of subjects, including Brands, Criminal Procedure, Prohibition of gambling on railroads, organization of school districts, and much else. With Lists of Federal and Territorial Officers, a Table of Contents, and a detailed Index. "Besides the Organic Act, this volume contains the 'Act to Incorporate the City of Laramie,' and much other interesting legislation including branding, herding. etc." Eberstadt. 135 Eberstadt 961. AII 16. Babbitt 617.

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ix, [1 blank], 169 pp. A couple of light rubberstamps, light wear, else Very Good in later cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gilt institution's name stamped at base of spine, bookplate on front pastedown.  The Session enacted statutes on punishments for prison breaks, taxation, penitentiary regulations, railroads, common schools, as well as a variety of other subjects. Babbitt 280.

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99, [1] pp. A couple of light rubberstamps, else clean text and Very Good, bound in later cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, bookplate on front pastedown.  This early territorial imprint established the foundations of the taxing system, procedures for funding the debt, and procedures for incorporations, and enacted a variety of other Acts and Memorials. Babbitt 280.

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156pp. A couple of light rubberstamps, else clean text and Very Good.[bound with] LAWS, MEMORIALS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE TERRITORY OF MONTANA, PASSED AT THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, BEGUN AT VIRGINIA CITY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1869, AND CONCLUDED JANUARY 7, 1870... Herald, Helena, M.T. Robert E. Fisk, Public Printer. 1870. 163, [1 blank] pp. Original printed green wrappers. A couple of light rubberstamps, else Very Good. Bound together in later cloth, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gilt institution's name stamped at base of spine, bookplate on front pastedown.  The Organic Act of the Territory of Montana is printed, along with Acts concerning public lands, mining, civil and criminal procedure, territorial boundaries, irrigation and agriculture, cattle, and other subjects. Memorials seek a branch mint, removal of the Flat Head Indians from the Bitter Root Valley in Missoula County, and funding for the newly established Montana Historical Society.Babbitt 280, 280.

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Modern buckram, institutional bookplate, gilt name of institution on spine, gilt-lettered morocco spine label. 40, 5, 2, 6, [1] pp. Excessively rubberstamped, tape repair [no loss], Good. The first State laws, with "an act to provide for the public printing, including detailed controls that contrast strikingly with the somewhat loose practices of the territorial period" [Belknap]. Like other forward-looking Western States, Oregon provides here for separate property rights of married women. Belknap 436.

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Modern buckram [gilt-lettered morocco spine label, gilt institution bookplate and name stamped on spine]. 84, 100, [1 errata], [1 blank], 4, 3, [1 blank] pp. Several rubberstamps, a crude tape repair [no loss]. Good+. General and Special Laws are included, and Territorial Officers and elected representatives listed. The most significant, reflecting the view "that a necessity now exists for the formation of a State government," is an Act, printed at pages 7-14 of the first part, "to take the sense of the people relative to the formation of a State Government." Recent discovery of "rich deposits of gold" and other valuable minerals makes Statehood imperative, especially to thwart "a movement" to restrict the Oregon Territory and create a new Territory in the vicinity of the gold strikes. Belknap 239.

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xvii, [3], 415 pp. Bound in later buckram, with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Gilt-lettered institution's name at base of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, a couple of light rubberstamps, else a clean text; lacking the free endpapers, last leaf loose. Good+.  Territorial Officers and Representatives are listed. Like other Western territories and states, Arizona was at the forefront of women's rights, here assuring that a married woman's rents and profits were her separate property. The Legislature establishes a public school system, and expresses thanks to General Crook for his success in the "Indian campaign." Babbitt, page 13.

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[10], 311, [1 blank] pp. Bound in later buckram, with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. Gilt-lettered institution's name at base of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, a couple of light rubberstamps. Else Very Good.  Territorial Officers and Representatives are listed. Do not get caught "dealing, playing or practicing of the confidence game, or of the game called top and bottom swindle, three card monte, bunko, or of any similar play, game, or practice"-- you'll be found guilty of a felony.AII 79. Babbitt, page 13.

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xiv, [2], 160pp, with tipped-in errata slip after page 146. Bound in later buckram, with gilt-lettered morocco spine label; gilt-lettered institution's name at base of spine, bookplate on front pastedown, a couple of light rubberstamps. Lacking the free endpapers. Good+.  Territorial Officers and Representatives are listed. Babbitt's Hand-List of Legislative Session collates identically with our copy, and with the copy at the University of Minnesota Law Library. American Imprints Inventory calls for 170 pages. AII 48. OCLC 368018339 [U MN Law Lib.]. Babbitt, page 13.

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238pp. [bound with] .ACTS... NINTH LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF ARIZONA... A.D. 1877, AT TUCSON. Tucson: Arizona Citizen. 1877. xii, [1], 132pp. Bound together in later cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine labels; gilt-lettered institution's name at base of spine, and bookplate on front pastedown. Text clean, bright, Near Fine.  Two early Session laws. The Eighth also prints the Rules of the territorial Supreme Court, U.S. Mining Laws, and Treaties with Mexico. Territorial Officers and Representatives are listed. Resolutions of thanks are issued to General Crook, for ridding Arizona of "hordes of hostile Indians." But a Memorial seeks help in subduing the Pima and Maricopa tribes, which cause much "trouble and annoyance along the highways of the Territory."AII 40, 44.

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352pp. Disbound, faint rubberstamp, light to moderate foxing, Good+.  A busy and productive session treating a variety of subjects.DeRenne 517.

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235, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, faint rubberstamp, light to moderate foxing, Good+.  Several Acts issue pardons to persons convicted of murder.DeRenne 503.

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[1-title], [1], [1-contents], [1 blank], [9]-124pp [as issued]. Disbound, light blindstamp on title page, else Very Good. Slip of paper bound in after title page with manuscript notations. Ink signature of Robert C. Winthrop, Representative from Massachusetts and later Speaker of the House, at top margin of title page.  This is one of Gallatin's pamphlets that established his reputation as a sophisticated antebellum American writer on banking. Seldom seen on the market, it is a critique of the American currency and banking system, with a program for reform. Gallatin had led the successful effort by New York bankers to resume specie payments after the Panic of 1837. But in October 1839 the U.S. Bank of Pennsylvania again suspended specie payments; banks followed suit everywhere except in New England, New York, and New Jersey. In 1841 specie payments still had not resumed in Philadelphia and in many other parts of the country. The benefits of a paper currency, says Gallatin, are overestimated. The substitution of paper for specie currency is permissible only if it convertible on demand into an equal amount of specie. Because specie payments are widely suspended, bank notes are severely depreciated, especially because banks historically offer loans and discounts imprudently. Thus "the present situation of the currency in the United States is worse than that of any other country.,,,[T]o have no issue of paper would be preferable to the current state of things" (p. 24). AI 41-2058 [5]. Sabin 26397.

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62, [2 blank] pp. Disbound with light dusting, else Very Good.  Williams is a strong proponent of a new national bank and a harsh critic of existing local banks, which have failed to provide a sound and uniform currency. He rejects a metallic currency as simply "not practicable," and analyzes at length the weaknesses of local state-chartered banks: repeated charter violations, suspensions, failures; state banks' heterogeneous note issues, which are not uniform in value or appearance. He explains his plan for a national bank, chartered for forty years, with checks and balances designed to avoid abuses and cronyism. Its initial capital of $50 million [$10 million of which would be subscribed by the government] would be enhanced by million of stock sales annually, with preference given to shareholders of the existing state-charted banks.  The author makes reference (p. 49) to recent Whig victories, suggesting that this pamphlet was written late in 1840. Williams must have been gratified when Henry Clay and the Whigs voted for a national bank, but crushed when President Tyler vetoed the measure.AI 40-7056 [6]. Sabin 104231.

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36pp, illustrations, color plate illustration. Original illustrated tan wrappers, printed with red ink [light wear, spine eroded], stapled as issued. Many illustrations of different stitches and designs, detailed full color plate illustration of embroidered flower [caption: Plate XXVIII. Sweet Pea. Linen Design 1329.] Light scattered foxing. Good+.

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358pp, bound in later buckram cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine title, gilt-stamped name of institution at spine base, bookplate on front pastedown. Perforation stamp on title page, light to moderate wear, repairs to a couple of leaves, Good only.  De Renne notes that the imprint date of 1838 was erroneous; and that the correct date of printing was 1833. Much material on schools, banks, counties, Indian tribes, incorporations, towns and other matters. Numerous resolutions deal with lotteries, Cherokees, the penitentiary, and call for a Southern Convention to denounce Nullification but also to assert the rights of the South. De Renne 432.

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40, [ii Index] pp, bound in later buckram. Blank corner of title page torn and repaired, institutional rubberstamps. Else Good+.  The Session was called to enact a Statute on the distribution of lands acquired by Georgia pursuant to the Creek Indian Treaty with the United States, and to create a Lottery for that purpose. Another Statute rewards Austin Dabney, "a Freeman of colour," for his bravery during the American Revolution. According to De Renne, this copy has the original edition's title page, but the text apparently consists of the 1908 reprint. DeRenne 376.

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XVIII, [2], 415, [1] pp. Bound in later legal buckram [title and institutional stamp on spine]. Light rubberstamp on title page, otherwise a clean and Fine copy. Memorial 1 on page 347 is an exceedingly interesting and significant Custer item. It informs "that General Custer has explored the Black Hills, and reports the finding of gold in every locality where the miners prospected." The Memorial petitions Congress and the President to open the Black Hills for settlement, to "abrogate" the Treaty which granted the Black Hills to the Sioux, and "to extinguish the Indian title." After all, the Treaty has already been "numberless times violated by the Sioux Indians." The Treaty "prevents white men from acquiring homesteads, pre-emptions or mining rights within the great Sioux reservation." This petition contributed to Custer's disastrous expedition. Custer and the 7th Calvary had arrived in the Black Hills on July 22, 1874. The unit searched for a suitable fort; civilians successfully prospected for gold; the astonishing riches were duly reported. In late 1875 the Sioux rejected President Grant's offer to purchase the Black Hills; Grant and his cabinet then refused to bar white settlers from the Hills. A mass gold rush ensued; it antagonized the Sioux Indians and erupted into the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877, whose highlight, of course, was Custer's Last Stand.  Memorial 2 requests a division of the Dakota Territory and asks that a new territory be carved out of the northern part. A detailed Index and Table of Contents are included.Allen 117.

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Bound in modern buckram, with title stamped on spine. CLXIX, [4], 702 pp. One light rubberstamp, else a clean and Fine text.   Organized alphabetically by subject, the Compiled Laws are preceded by the Treaty of Cession of the Louisiana Territory and the Organic Act of Dakota [Wyoming was a part of the Louisiana Purchase, and was originally included in the Dakota Territory]; the Organic Act of Wyoming, the Union Pacific Land Grant; the Sioux and Shoshone Treaties; the Public Lands Circular, on homesteading; the Military Bounty Lands statute; Mining Laws: Coal Lands; and other statutes having particular reference to the Wyoming Territory. The Compiled Laws end with an unusually detailed Index. AII [WY] 29. II Harv. Law Cat. 970.

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4to. [17]-32pp [as issued], illustrations. Original blue illustrated wrappers [minor foxing], stitched. Interior pages quite clean. Very Good.  Carrie Filkins Young [1828-1911] was born in New York and later moved west to California. She was a practicing physician and public speaker on subjects ranging from health to temperance to women's suffrage. She is said to have lectured with Susan B. Anthony in the mid-1850s. Young was the editor of Woman's Pacific Coast Journal in the early 1870s, and from 1882 to 1885 edited Life Crystals with her son Robert E. Bush and several female corresponding editors. This issue includes articles such as: "But, After All, What Can I Do?" from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; "Vitality of the Young," "Fever," "The Christ-Love," "Scrofula," "Typhoid Fever," and much more.

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Bound in contemporary calf [hinges starting, chipped at base of spine, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels]. Light rubberstamp and bookplate. xvi, 784 pp. Text clean, bright, Very Good. "This compilation was for some time considered the first book printed in Wyoming; it is certainly the earliest official book printing" [Streeter]. "In addition to the historical importance attaching to the contents of the volume, this is one of the first books printed in the territory" [Eberstadt]. The Preface notes of this historic First Session, "Among other acts, a law was passed enfranchizing women; thus, by a single step, placing the youngest territory on earth in the vanguard of civilization and progress." The Preface also describes Wyoming's enviable natural resources and "extraordinary facilities" for stock grazing and agriculture. The Laws treat the entire range of civil and criminal procedure, and the other constituents of territorial governance. Streeter Sale 2235. 135 Eberstadt 957. AII [Wyoming] 6.

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12mo. [32]pp, stitched, illustrations. Woodcut illustration on front wrap. Very Good.  This almanac includes the results of the election of 1864-- the re-election of Abraham Lincoln-- and a list of Connecticut's state officers and many ads for local businesses.

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243, [1 blank] pp. Disbound, else Near Fine.  With Table of Contents and Index. Among the Session's more interesting achievements was an Act prohibiting the "emigration and settlement of Free Negroes, or Free Persons of Color, into this State;" an Act placing the State Bank of Arkansas in liquidation and forbidding it to issue any notes; similarly, an Act liquidating the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas; the abolition of imprisonment for debt; an Act establishing Common Schools; and an Act punishing anyone who attempts to entice away a slave. Resolutions seek the aid of the national government in protecting the frontier against marauding Indians.Allen 107.

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iv, 144, xii pp. Disbound, rubberstamp on blank portion of title page, else a clean and Very Good copy.  With Table of Contents and Index. This early Session passed laws creating and regulating banks, turnpike companies, corporations, railroads; created Senatorial Districts and apportioned representatives; enacted a variety of laws concerning the judiciary, as well as many other matters, including one statute encouraging the killing of wolves.Allen 71.

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