Louisiana:

ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ON MONDAY THE TWETIETH [sic] DAY OF NOVEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED & TWENTY-ONE.

New Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes, State Printer, 1821. 159, [1 blank] pp. Bound in later cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine titles [rubbed]. Light scattered foxing, front pastedown with a bookplate, several institutional rubberstamps, else Very Good.

"English and French on facing pages." [Jumonville]. With a List of Acts, an Index, and Resolutions. One of the Resolutions is a several-page report on the necessity for hospitals: "Navigators and traders from more northern latitudes," who arrive in New Orleans healthy, are frequently felled by the radically different climate. These are "principally boatmen from Kentucky, Ohio, and other states on the Ohio." It is hoped that their Governors will chip in to help provide the necessary medical attention to these men.
Jumonville 358. Item #29735

Price: $250.00