LAWS ENACTED IN THE SECOND SITTING OF THE NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHICH COMMENCED AT PHILADELPHIA, ON THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY, [1785].

[Philadelphia: William Bradford, 1785]. Folio. Caption title, as issued. [417]-587, [1 blank], iv [Table of Acts] pp. Bound in modern buckram. Two rubberstamps on title page, scattered foxing, printer's flaw on page 450 costs a few letters. Good+.

This busy Post-Revolutionary session protected the right of habeas corpus, arranged for bounty lands to Revolutionary War soldiers, accorded James Rumsey the exclusive right to construct and navigate his "new invented boats," donated property for the site of the American Philosophical Society, enacted relief for creditors owed money by debtors attainted of treason, authorized appointment of commissioners to settle the boundary with New York along the Delaware River, and did a lot of other stuff.
Evans 19160. NAIP w020618 [4]. Item #32602

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