ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIRST LEGISLATURE OF THE TERRITORY OF ORLEANS, BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS, ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF JANUARY... [1807].
New-Orleans: Bradford & Anderson, Printers to the Territory, 1807. ix, [1 blank], 207, [1 blank] pp [complete]. Continuously paginated, in alternating English and French. Several blank upper margins reinforced [occasionally obscuring a page number]. Light scattered spotting, rubberstamp on title page and in blank lower margin of another page. Good+, in later cloth [institutional bookplate on front pastedown].
These early statutes establish a judicial system, regulate the private emancipation of slaves, prohibit the emigration of Free Negroes and Mulattos into the Territory, and enact a variety of other laws and resolutions.
Jumonville 145. Thompson 1082. Item #31333
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