appendix assembly journal 1856 second (2 résultats)

Hardcover. Hardcover; leather spine over paper-covered boards. Three reports bound together. Includes: 1) Second Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the Year 1855, 548 pages; 2) Report of the Joint Select Committee of the Senate and Assembly, Appointed "To Investigate the Offices of the State Treasurer, The Secretary of State." , Reported. September 12, 1856, 175 pages; 3) Reply to the Investigating Committee to the Communication of Hon. Geo. B. Smith and Alexander T. Grey, 32 pages; 4) Report of Judiciary Committee. Investigate the Canvassing of Election Returns in the Election of Governor of the State of Wisconsin, 67 pages. Ex-library copy, with typical markings. Edgewear. The leather spine shows wear, with 1" loss at the spine head. Surface rubbing & some soil. The spine gilt is mostly faded away. The page edges are age-darkened. Just a bit of light foxing, and some age-darkening to the pages. Else pages are fairly clean. There are several sections to the Historical Society Report, including: Early History and Condition of Wisconsin; Early Times and Events in Wisconsin; Personal Narrative of Col. John Shaw.; Pioneer LIfe in Wisconsin; Further Strictures on Gov. Ford's History of the Black Hawk War; A Sketch of the Early History of Kenosha County.; Legend of the Red Banks; etc. ; 31B; 8" x 5-1/4".

Hardcover. Hardcover; leather spine over paper-covered boards. Six reports bound together. Includes: 1) Second Annual Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the Year 1855, 546 pages; 2) An Address to the Legislature in Behalf of the Insane of the State of Wisconsin, 32 pages; 3) Report of the Joint Select Committee of the Senate and Assembly, Appointed "To Investigate the Offices of the State Treasurer, The Secretary of State." , Reported. September 12, 1856, 175 pages; 4) Report of the Joint Select Committee of the Assembly. As Related to the Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement, 79 pages; 5) Amendment to Bill No. 396S (concerning the grant of public lands for the construction of railroads, 34 pages; 6) Reply to the Investigating Committee to the Communication of Hon. Geo. B. Smith and Alexander T. Grey, 32 pages; 7) Report of Judiciary Committee. Investigate the Canvassing of Election Returns in the Election of Governor of the State of Wisconsin, 67 pages. Ex-library copy, with typical markings. Edgewear. The leather spine shows wear. Surface rubbing & some soil. The spine gilt is mostly faded away. The fore-edge half of the front flyleaf has been torn away. The page edges are age-darkened. There is some foxing; mostly to the first and last couple of pages, but a bit on pages scattered here & there. Else the pages are fairly clean. ; 29D; 8" x 5-1/4".