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186589901New Orleans 1865. Very Good. 9p. Tied softcover pamphlet. No separate wrapper. 21 cm. Modest spotting and soil. Colonel N. B. Bartram 20th U. S. Colored Infantry was President of this General Court Martial which convened on May 29 1865 and before which 22 soldiers appeared all but 3 of whom served in various the United States Colored Infantry -- one of the exceptions served in the 18th New York Cavalry and the other two served in the 1st New Orleans Volunteers. Charges ranged from Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order and Military Discipline to Riotous and Mutinous Conduct. The sentence for the latter was that Private John F. Thompson be "confined at hard labor with ball and chain attached to his left leg weighing thirty-two 32 pounds chain two feet long . for the period of two years and forfeit . the whole of his monthly pay for and during the remaining and unexpired term of his enlistment." Two soldiers were found not guilty and two others facing multiple charges were found guilty of only some of the charges. All other soldiers were found guilty. An officer in the 1st New Orleans Volunteers was only given a reprimand after he used his sword to strike an enlisted man because of circumstances which are detailed at some length. Additionally page 7 includes the results of a separate military commision convened with Major M. Maloney as President on March 24 1865 to deal with three civilians -- all three were found not guilty. unknown
1838291492New Orleans 1838. unbound. very good. Rare autograph document signed: The Citizens Bank of Louisiana trades shares in the capitol stock of the bank for parcels of land and slaves. Folio 4 pages City and Parish of New Orleans Louisiana September 8th 1838 whereby Demey Kemp and wife who are wealthy land owners with many slaves enters into a contract with Victorin Patin President of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana to secure the sum of fifteen-hundred dollars the amount equal to fifteen shares in the Capital Stock of said bank with fifteen shares in an additional allowance of stock for the following described property to wit as adjudicated by Judge Samuel Leonard and certified by Theodore Seghers notary public in small part: ".that including four tracts or parcels of land in the Parish of St. Helena containing two-thousand and forty acres; a tract of land situated on the River Licksaw containing six-hundred acres. Likewise further: Demey Kemp declares that one of the Slaves therein mentioned and named Adelin aged nine years has died since appraisement; and he referred to the title papers in the possession of the said Bank to show from when the appraised property is derived; with the exception of twenty-eight slaves who were born on the property. A mortgage is granted by the said Demey Kemp . to secure fifteen additional shares allowerd on his subscription in the Capital Stock of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana. According to the Judge's certificate there is no mortgage in this office on the different described properties except the mortgage granted in the sum of two-hundred schares in the Capital Stock of said Bank . then this said . Demey Kemp will be recognized as a stockholder of the Citizens Bank of Louisiana for fifteen additional shares." This document has been certified by Justice Samuel Leonard on verso with his signature and embossed seal October 6th 1938. Condition: usual folds with light soiling and minor toning on the Court Filing page: Very good.<br/> <br/> Between 1831 and 1866 Citizens Bank of Louisiana currently owned by J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. accepted 13000 slaves as collateral on loans and repossessed 1250 enslaved individuals on loans that plantation owners defaulted on. Though this information is readily available through extensive historical research much of it financed by J.P. Morgan Chase and personally authorized by Jamie Dimon 2003-2005 this is the first document we have ever encountered whereby Citizens Bank of Louisiana is knowingly trading stock in their bank for slaves to shareholders.<br/> <br/> unknown
184697590Washington: Ritchie and Heiss printers 1846. 1846. Good. - Octavo 9 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover printed self-wraps. There is offsetting as well as scattered foxing to the front and rear cover pages with minor chipping to the front edge of the front cover page. 16 pages illustrated with a lithographic portrait of Isaac Morse by John Henry Bufford. There is a chip out from the top corner of the frontispiece. Ex-library de-acquisitioned from The New York Public Library's "Myers Collection" with a stamp on the verso of the front wrapper. The edges of the pages are lightly darkened with occasional minor foxing. Good. <p>First edition.<p>The MexicanAmerican War Apr 25 1846 Feb 2 1848 known in Mexico as the Intervención estadounidense en México was an armed conflict between the United States and Mexico that followed the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas which Mexico considered Mexican territory. Morse expounds in favor of the war: "If this war was what you say it is and waged wantonly sinfully by the President from mere personal vanity or a petty ambition for the sake of letting the world know who James K. Polk was - if for an end like this all the seas of blood and millions and millions of its treasure lavished all in violation of the constitution - if you make good this charge then has the President of the United States been guilty not of moral merely but of actual treason and that of the deepest dye; not through ignorance but with malice aforethought. If all this be true then has he damned himself indeed to a depth of infamy where the hand of resurrection can never reach him. If you can persuade the widow and orphans of the murdered Cross the gallant Watson the chivalric Ridgely and all the friends and relatives of the noble Ringgold and the other gallant spirits whose lives have been given as a bloody sacrifice to their country's honor that all this was done to glorify this administration and prove who James K. Polk was then sir is your Chief Magistrate guilty of 'conduct so basely mean in a public character that it is without precedent or pretence; an incendiary war upon society that nothing can excuse or palliate emanating from a refinement of beggarly villany made up between the venomous malignity of a serpent and the spiteful imbecility of an inferior reptile.'"<p>Isaac Edward Morse 1809-1866 was a Democratic politician from Louisiana who served in the House of Representatives from 1844-1851. He served as Louisiana's Attorney General from 1854-1856. President Franklin Pierce appointed him in 1856 to be a special commissioner to New Granada to negotiate safe passage of Americans across the Isthmus of Panama.<p>John Henry Bufford 1810-1870 was a Boston lithographer who often created his portraits after daguerreotypes. Among the artists he employed was Winslow Homer. Washington: Ritchie and Heiss, printers, 1846. paperback
1857ZB377738Washington: 1857. 5 pp issued as 34th Congress 3d Session SRC 363; light extractoion roughness at spine now in self wrappers and good; concerns private land claims in Missouri and Louisiana particularly the long gaps of time between their being recommended for confirmation and actually being confirmed by Congress. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: unknown
186737280New Orleans: Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office 1867. 60 25- advertisements 3 blanks pp. Original printed yellow wrappers some extremity chipping. Originally stitched now loosened. Illustration on rear wrapper: 'Front Entrance Gentilly Road. Several institutional stamps scattered foxing and dusting. The final 25 pages are advertisements from various commercial enterprises mostly from New Orleans. Good.<br /> <br /> The Report announces Louisiana's entry into the post-War New South displaying its "improvements" in agriculture and the "Mechanic Arts." The advertisements alone demonstrate impressively Louisiana's determined recovery from the War. <br /> Officers Directors and Committee Members are listed after the title page. The Fair's President was the merchant I.N. Marks. "As indicated by his name ISAAC N. MARKS is of Hebrew descent and is a distinguished representative of his highly favored race but contrary to the usual customs of that people he has adopted the Christian faith. This change in his creed is due to the independent manner of thought which has characterized him from his boyhood and has ever made him master of his personality in the domain of both his sentiments and business. Mr. Marks is a native of South Carolina having been born at Charleston on the 5th of May 1817. At the age of nineteen he came to New Orleans and linked his career with that of his adopted city then lacking much of the greatness and grandeur which to-day places her a queen among cities" online 'Genealogy Trails History Group Orleans Parish <br /> The pamphlet records Louisiana's first Fair after the War's end in late November 1866. An essay explains its establishment and inauguration in late November 1866. "The mellow light of an Indian Summer's sun shone down." The various exhibits are listed followed by Marks's Address lamenting the "long and disastrous war leaving in its desolated path ruin upon every side; agriculture paralyzed; commerce languishing; a well-regulated labor system grown venerable in its usefulness and its humane tendencies suddenly and violently destroyed." Other Addresses call for immigration manufactures agricultural improvements and modernization.<br /> Not in Thompson which records later fairs of this Association. OCLC 24446596 1- Historic New Orleans Collection as of December 2020 but not collating the 25-page advertisement section. Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office unknown
184841984New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the "Louisiana Courier". 1848. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo; 75 75 pages; Early twentieth century full tan buckram red label lettered in gilt on spine. This copy was once the property of the Library of Congress with small paper label mounted to the front cover the LC engraved bookplate mounted to the front paste down endpaper tiny rubber stamps at the foot of both the English and French title pages "L.C. copy 2" pencil notes at the top of the French title page and the Library of Congress Surplus-Duplicate stamp in blue ink on the rear free endpaper -- which makes this copy legal to buy sell and own. An excellent copy with these minor library marks and four lower corners neatly folded up which had been left "long" by accident of the binder's plow. OCLC Number: 65113311 Two locations only: Yale and Univ. Minnesota Law Library. Louisiana had been admitted to the U. S. as a state on April 30 1812 the ninth anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. A second state constitution was adopted in 1845 hence the reference here to the "Second Legislature" of the state. Of particular note among the Acts published in these pages was an act to pay for the free public schools 184647 & 48 which had been called for in the new constitution and another act to provide for land for the building of the public schools. Slaves and slavery always a contentious issue received attention here. The legislators decreed that children born to Slaves who had been imprisoned in the Penitentiary would become State property to be sold at age ten for cash which was to be paid to the State Treasurer the funds dedicated to support the Public Schools. Various improvement to the bayous rivers and harbors of the state were comissioned with construction of roads and levees and a toll bridge on the bayou Ramos. The single longest and most detailed act provides for the acquisition of a right-of-way and construction of a "rail road from the parish of St. Landry to the Mississippi river." There is much of interest relating to New Orleans including a Law Library for the city's Bar Association and the detailed and specific extention of the "sole and exclusive privilege of introducing and vending gas-lights to the city of Lafayette . to James H. Caldwell for twenty years. This was the Faubourg Lafayette including the Garden District now incorporated into New Orleans as the 10th and 11th Wards. Modern developments were taken into account including the provision that operators of the magnetic telegraph "might not transmit messages which can in any manner tend to defeat the ends of justice." There was an act to pay handsomely: $600 the electors of the State in the recent Presidential election of 1848 -- in which they cast their votes for the first and only U.S. President to have been from Louisiana: Zachary Taylor. With the English and French text of all laws and acts given on facing pages as was usual for most of the early official publications of Louisiana. Now a rare book. . Printed at the Office of the "Louisiana Courier" hardcover
1897034853New Orleans: Selbstverlage 1897. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: iv 136 folding table at back. Spine neatly repaired some edge wear to covers. Text in German. 9.25" x 6" The author of this history of the German society in New Orleans Louisiana has been described by scholars as the leader and "standard-bearer of culture for the German community of New Orleans. Selbstverlage unknown
1840ZB331631Washington: Blair & Rives printers 1840. 2 pp issued as 26th Congress 1st Session S 274; one sheet with extraction roughness at spine and small chip at top margin but no loss; they would like the mail to go by steamboat rather than by land. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: Blair & Rives, printers unknown
183947367New Orleans: Printed by D. Felt & Co 1839. Very Good -. New Orleans: Printed by D. Felt & Co. 1839. First Edition. Octavo; removed; 20pp. Front and rear wraps detached but present; light edgewear and minor staining; brief pencil notes at lead of text; Good to Very Good. Uncommon New Orleans imprint on the subject of foreign naturalization. <br /> <br /> Sabin 42185. Printed by D. Felt & Co unknown
180425033Washington 1804. 6 2 blank pp. Disbound and lightly toned. Very Good. <br /> <br /> The Senate proposed these Amendments to the House Bill providing for extension of the laws of the United States to the Louisiana Territory purchased from France forming a part of the earliest legislation concerning this newly acquired expanse. <br /> AI 7428 1- DLC. OCLC locates three copies AAS Yale Cambridge under two accession numbers. Not in BEAL. unknown
189578199New Orleans: Louisiana Historical Society. Very Good. 1895. Hardcover. Ex-library in 10 volumes in 5 bound in maroon library buckram measuring 8 3/4 x 6 inches - bright contents with several illustrations. . Louisiana Historical Society hardcover
180428737Paris: Ballard 1804. viii 18 31-176pp. plus folding table. Library label on front cover from Shwartz Historical Library. Minor rubbing and edge wear. Bookplate on front pastedown. Loss to portions of thirteen leaves affecting some text reinforced with tape dust-soiling to titlepage dampstaining to some leaves toward the end of the text. Lacking pp.19-30. Later 19th-century marbled wrappers.<br/> <br/> An extraordinarily rare account of travels in Louisiana the Mississippi Valley and the Illinois-Ohio country especially interesting in that the travels practically coincide with the Louisiana Purchase: a battered copy of a great rarity.<br/> <br/> An extraordinarily rare account of travels in Louisiana the Mississippi Valley and the Illinois-Ohio country especially interesting in that the travels practically coincide with the Louisiana Purchase. The work has been attributed to either Wante or G. Boucher de la Richardiere. "The author - whoever he was - travelled extensively throughout the lower Mississippi Valley" Howes. "There is also much on the Illinois-Ohio country but the body of the work has to do with the Louisiana Cession" Eberstadt. Incomplete but quite rare as Howes accorded it a "b" rating. The great Simon Shwartz library of Louisiana material had a copy sold for $15 in 1926 in blue morocco with an inked name on the titlepage. This is perhaps an additional Shwartz copy not auctioned at the time. The only other copy we can find any record of selling is the one listed by the Eberstadts in 1953.<br/> <br/> Eberstadt 132:412; Howes W87 "b."; Sabin 101246; Shwartz Sale 622. Ballard unknown
185329853Providence RI: Printed at the Office of the Watchman 1853. 55 1 pp. Disbound with an old adhesion to small portion of title page else Very Good. <br /> <br /> Why this was printed in Providence is a mystery. The Grand Secretary was ordered to publish three hundred copies. This is a scarce record of Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various issues such as the issue of certain groups illegitimately claiming that they are Masons. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> OCLC 647907248 1- AAS as of January 2013. Printed at the Office of the Watchman unknown
185829858New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office 1858. 117 1 blank 5 1 blank 5 1 pp. Disbound. Several paragraphs carefully excised for an unknown reason at pages 15-18. Else Good. <br /> <br /> This title is bound with the PROCEEDINGS OF THE GRAND COUNCIL OF R. AND S. MASTERS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AT THE THIRD ASSEMBLY. The pagination is continuous. <br /> Jumonville 2731 second title paginated 101-117. Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office unknown
185629857New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office 1856. 71 1 pp. Disbound. At pages 35-38 several paragraphs have been carefully excised for an unknown reason. Otherwise Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various and sometimes abstruse Masonic issues. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Not located on OCLC. Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office unknown
185529854New Orleans: Printed by Sherman Wharton & Co. 1855. 51 5 pp. Disbound with some loosening top outer corner of first two leaves chipped. Else Very Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches doings at the various subordinate Chapters. With Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Not located on OCLC as of January 2013. Printed by Sherman, Wharton & Co. unknown
185429852New Orleans: Printed at the Office of the Picayune 1854. 64pp. Disbound with some light inner margin wear else Very Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various issues: "Whether any of the Chapter Degrees may be conferred on persons maimed or otherwise imperfect in body" for example. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions.<br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. OCLC 29194707 1- LA State Lib. as of January 2013. Printed at the Office of the Picayune unknown
185729855New Orleans: Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office 1857. 96pp. Disbound with some light toning bit of loosening and an archivally repaired closed tear at leaf 81-82 no loss. Good. <br /> <br /> A scarce record of these Proceedings with lists of participants speeches and discussion of various and sometimes abstruse Masonic issues. Doings at the various subordinate Chapters are duly reported. With the Constitution Edicts and Resolutions. <br /> Not in Jumonville or Thompson. Not located on OCLC. Printed at the Bulletin Book and Job Office unknown
184031830New Orleans one Donaldson 1840. The Acts are in both English and French on facing pages. Bindings vary: disbound modern buckram modern cloth or contemporary sheep. The usual institutional marks and occasional light wear. Overall Very Good. <br /> <br /> a. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FOURTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE FIFTH DAY OF JANUARY. 1819. New Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer. 1819. 142pp. Disbound a bit roughly moderately foxed light chipping to blank outer margin of title leaf and last leaf.<br /> Jumonville 315.<br /> <br /> b. 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 1821. New-Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer 1821. 159pp.<br /> "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. <br /> Jumonville 358. <br /> <br /> c. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FIFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1822. New-Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer 1822. 130pp.<br /> Jumonville 374.<br /> <br /> d. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY 1823. New-Orleans: J.C. De St. Romes State Printer 1823. xxxi 1 blank 110pp. <br /> The volume begins with a rare printing of the 1812 Constitution of Louisiana in English and French on facing pages with names of delegates.<br /> Jumonville 402.<br /> <br /> e. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SIXTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY 1824. New-Orleans: Peter K. Wagner State Printer 1824. 187 8pp.<br /> Jumonville 432.<br /> <br /> f. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE SEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1825. New-Orleans: James M. Bradford State Printer 1826. 264pp. <br /> With a List of Acts an Index and Resolutions. One of the Resolutions urges settlement of the boundary with Arkansas; one of the laws regulates river pilots; others regulate the emancipation of slaves runaway slaves and other aspects of slavery. <br /> Jumonville 488.<br /> <br /> g. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE FIRST DAY OF JANUARY 1827. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1827. 211pp.<br /> ` <br /> h. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1828. John Gibson State Printer 1828. 199pp. <br /> The First Session passed acts prescribing the mode of private emancipation an act relative to runaway slaves the organization of the City of New Orleans into wards; establishment of a consolidated planters association of Louisiana; and various laws on internal improvements civil and criminal law. The Second Session repealed an Act which had prohibited entry of slaves into the State for purposes of sale and passed several statutes improving river and canal transportation incorporating "a society of Israelites" and the New Orleans Jockey Club. Each Session includes an Index and Titles of Acts.<br /> Jumonville 600 625. <br /> <br /> i. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE EIGHTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1828. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1829. 200 21 index pp.<br /> With a List of Acts Index and the 1812 Constitution of Louisiana. Among the Acts passed are a detailed 18-section slave registration statute; a state printing contract for Benjamin Levy; various laws on the militia internal improvements land titles civil and criminal law. <br /> Jumonville 665.<br /> <br /> j. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE NINTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF DONALDSONVILLE ON MONDAY THE 4TH DAY OF JANUARYA.D. 1830. Donaldson: C.W. Duhy State Printer 1830.156pp.<br /> An early Donaldson imprint with much contemporary marginalia on the different statutes. <br /> <br /> k. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AT DONALDSON ON MONDAY THE THIRD DAY OF JANUARY 1831. IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON THE EIGHTH OF JANUARY. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1831. 143pp.<br /> Jumonville 735.<br /> <br /> l. ACTS PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS ON MONDAY THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER 1831. New-Orleans: John Gibson State Printer 1831. 15 1 blank pp.<br /> A detailed Slave Code is enacted.<br /> Jumonville 736.<br /> <br /> m. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE TENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. New Orleans: Stroud & Pew. State Printers. 1832. 204 6 pp. <br /> With continuing regulation of slavery and the domestic slave trade.<br /> Jumonville 773. <br /> <br /> n. ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE SEVENTH DAY OF JANUARY 1833. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1833. 194 194 1 blank 195-202 pp. <br /> Jumonville 809.<br /> <br /> o. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE NINTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1833. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1834. 167 167 vi vi 1 blank viii-xviii pp.<br /> Jumonville 835.<br /> <br /> p. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWELFTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE FOURTH DAY OF JANUARY 1836. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1836. 193 193 iv iv 1 blank v-xii pp. Title leaf crimped and chipped but no text loss.<br /> Jumonville 923.<br /> <br /> q. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS THE ELEVENTH DAY OF DECEMBER 1837. New-Orleans: Jerome Bayon State Printer 1838. 120 120 vi xvi pp.<br /> Jumonville 1013. <br /> <br /> r. bound with ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS JANUARY 7 1839. New-Orleans: J.D. DE ST. ROMES State Printer 1839. 241 xii pp. <br /> Jumonville 1055.<br /> <br /> s. ACTS PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA; BEGUN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS ON THE 6TH DAY OF JANUARY 1840. New-Orleans: Bullitt Magne & Co. State Printers 1840. 142 142 iv iv v-xiii index pp.<br /> Jumonville 1144. unknown
186633279New Orleans: J.O. Nixon State Printer 1866. 331pp. Stitched in original printed wrappers. Some loosening and wrapper wear last page with a hole costing several letters of the Index. Good.<br /> <br /> Louisiana's early Reconstruction legislature deals with post-War issues. J.O. Nixon, State Printer unknown
182829358New Orleans: John Gibson- State Printer 1828. 199 1 blank pp. Disbound. English and French on facing pages may lack the French title page. Good. Probably the copy of the Louisiana diplomat lawyer and Senator John Slidell signed 'Jn Slidell' at the head of the title. <br /> <br /> With Index and Titles of Acts. Slidell was the Confederacy's ambassador to France during the Civil War. With James Mason he set sail for Europe on the British ship Trent but was intercepted and captured by an American warship. A serious diplomatic row with England ensued. Lincoln believing that one war at a time was sufficient made his amends to the British. <br /> The Second Session repealed an Act which had prohibited entry of slaves into the State for purposes of sale and passed several statutes improving river and canal transportation incorporating "a society of Israelites" incorporating other associations like the New Orleans Jockey Club.<br /> Jumonville 625. AI 33906 3. John Gibson- State Printer unknown
182129735New 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. <br /> <br /> "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. <br /> Jumonville 358. J.C. De St. Romes, State Printer unknown
182629736New Orleans: James M. Bradford State Printer 1826. 264pp. Bound in later cloth with gilt-lettered morocco spine titles rubbed. Foxed front pastedown with a bookplate several institutional rubberstamps Good. <br /> <br /> "English and French on facing pages." Jumonville. With a List of Acts an Index and Resolutions. One of the Resolutions urges settlement of the boundary with Arkansas; one of the laws regulates river pilots; others regulate the emancipation of slaves runaway slaves and other aspects of slavery. <br /> Jumonville 488. James M. Bradford, State Printer unknown
182829714New Orleans: John Gibson- State Printer 1828. 211 1 blank; 199 1 blank pp. The 1827 Acts are bound in later cloth with morocco spine labels and an old law library gilt stamp at base of spine; bookplate on front pastedown; text lightly to moderately toned or foxed. Good. The 1828 Acts are bound in original attractive full calf with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. A couple of rubberstamps bookplate on front pastedown front and rear pastedowns worn. Good. <br /> <br /> English and French are on facing pages in each volume. The First Session passed acts prescribing the mode of private emancipation an act relative to runaway slaves the organization of the City of New Orleans into wards; establishment of a consolidated planters association of Louisiana; and various laws on internal improvements civil and criminal law. <br /> The Second Session repealed an Act which had prohibited entry of slaves into the State for purposes of sale and passed several statutes improving river and canal transportation incorporating "a society of Israelites" incorporating other associations like the New Orleans Jockey Club. Each Session includes an Index and Titles of Acts.<br /> Jumonville 600 625. AI 29537 3 33906 3. John Gibson- State Printer unknown
183427722New Orleans: Jerome Bayon- State Printer 1834. 167 167 vi vi 1 blank viii-xviii pp. Scattered foxing disbound Good. <br /> <br /> "English and French on facing pages.Facing pages bear duplicate numbering." Jumonville. With Index and Titles of Acts. <br /> Jumonville 835 3. AI 25373 5. Jerome Bayon- State Printer unknown
