Front title: ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Rear title: THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. VIII. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. (Insurrection Act, slave import ban, Native Americans treaties, etc.)

Edité par Washington City [Washington DC]: [no publisher/printer specified but probably A. & G. Way - United States Congress], 1807.

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Title (without imprint) bound-in at front: ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Title (with place and year imprint) bound-in at rear: THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. VIII. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. Collates as [front cover], [front title], 219-352, i-iv, 1-29, [3], [rear title], [rfep], [rear cover] - this collation matches OCLC citations so evidently as issued. Stitch-bound paperback: H 20.75cm x L 12.75cm. Contemporary blue paper covers soiled, stained, and chipped; white paper spine torn and chipped with front cover and spine separated from text block but rear cover still attached. Boldly written in antiquarian ink on front cover is "Secretary's office" followed by lighter ink writing "Levin Wailes | 18th April 1810" followed by second signature "Levin Wailes" in even lighter ink but with similar flourish; other old faded ink writing to front cover as well. Surface chipping to rear cover paper causes loss to antiquarian ink signature "Thomas ?" followed by old ink note "The role" (presumably the start of a longer statement) which by a different hand than the Thomas signature immediately above it. Front title also has "Secretary's Office" by same hand as front cover followed by "Levin Wales | April 18th AD 1819" with same flourish as front cover; towards bottom of title is same date repeated but by a different hand. Varied toning/foxing, soiling, and stains to interior leaves along with creased/curled corners. Interior stitching still firm. *** Acts, proclamations, etc. confirmed by President Thomas Jefferson, Speaker of the House of Representatives Nathaniel Macon, and/or Vice President of the US and President of the Senate George Clinton - President of the Senate, pro tempore Samuel Smith plus Secretary of State James Madison and others. "An Act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States . . . " on pages 262-272. "An Act making compensation to Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, and their companions" on pages 294-295. "An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect a treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians; and to establish a land office in the Mississippi territory" on pages 301-302. "An Act authorising the employment of the land and naval forces of the United States, in cases of insurrections" (aka The Insurrection Act) on page 311. "An Act making appropriations for carrying into effect certain treaties with the Cherokee and Piankeshaw tribes of Indians" on pages 312-313. Presidential Proclamations regarding the Piankeshaw (page 338-341, the Chickasaw nation (pages 342-346), and the Cherokee nation (pages 347-352). Pages i-iv are Table of Contents; pages 1-29 are Index. ***** WITH A PARTICULARLY SIGNIFICANT MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATION. Levin Covington Wailes settled at Washington, Mississippi Territory, in 1807 and soon received land surveying commissions including plotting the northern boundary of the Choctaw lands ceded by the 1805 Treaty of Mount Dexter. From 1810 to 1822 Wailes was registrar of the federal land office at Opelousas, Louisiana Territory before returning in 1822 to Natchez where he was surveyor general of public lands south of Tennessee. The Wailes family hosted boarders at their plantation home including John James Audubon who painted several family portraits. Most prominent of the Wailes' nine children was Benjamin Leonard Covington Wailes (1797-1862) who served as state geologist and was professor of geology and agriculture at the University of Mississippi. Although with no markings as such, this book was acquired from the estate of Vicksburg, Mississippi attorney Lucius Bryan Dabney Sr., 1893-1967, whose insightful, ardent, and voluminous accumulation of Mississippi Valley-related books and papers is preserved as the Natchez Trace Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.…

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Front title: ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. Rear title: THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. VOL. VIII. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. (Insurrection Act, slave import ban, Native Americans treaties, etc.)
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United States Ninth Congress [9th Congress: U.S. House of Representatives; U.S. Senate]. Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826; Samuel Smith, 1752-1839; Nathaniel Macon, 1757-1837. Levin Covington Wailes, 1768-1847; Lucius Bryan Dabney Sr., 1893-1967 (past owners).
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Washington City [Washington DC]: [no publisher/printer specified but probably A. & G. Way - United States Congress], 1807.
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