Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : passed at a session which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday the sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the independence of the United States of America, the thirty-third. : Published by authority
Acts of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session which was begun and held at the Borough of Lancaster, on Tuesday the second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : passed at a session, which was begun and held at the city of Philadelphia on Tuesday, the fourth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and of the independence of the United States of America, the seventeenth
Laws enacted in the third sitting of the twelfth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight
Place of publication and name of printer from colophon.
Signatures: 6B-6Z² ( -6Z2) (6Y2 verso blank).
Sideglosses.
Includes acts and laws numbered Chap. CLVI-CLXXIV signed and enacted in the months of September and October by Thomas Mifflin, speaker [of the Pennsylvania state House of Representatives] and Peter Zachary Lloyd, clerk of the General Assembly.
Pagination continues: Laws enacted in the first sitting of the tenth General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, Philadelphia, [1786] (Evans 19885).
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania : from the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the thirty-first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, both days inclusive
Laws enacted in the third General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania : which met at Philadelphia, on Monday the twenty-sixth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and in the third year of the independence of the United States of America
Pagination continues session laws from Nov. 1776 (Evans 15539).
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 584 as assigned by Yeates.
Evans
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania,
Contents
LCHS copy has bound in a copy of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as established by the General Convention elected for that purpose. and held at Philadelphjia, July 15th 1776: Philadelphia: printed by John Dunlap, in Market-Street, 1777, and 24 pages of handwritten index.
Laws of the fourteenth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, enacted in the second sitting : which commenced at Philadelphia, on Tuesday the second day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, : from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred, to the twentieth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten. : Republished, under the authority of the legislature. : With notes and references. : In four volumes. Vol. I[-V]
Printed and published by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut-Street.,
Date of Publication
1810[-1812].
Physical Description
5 v. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Title of v. 4-5 varies: Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred. Republished, under the authority of the legislature. With notes and references. Vol. IV[-V].
"The Governor be, and he hereby is authorized and required to receive proposals, and contract with John Bioren, for thirteen hundred and fifty copies of his proposed edition of the Acts of Assembly of this commonwealth, to the end of the present session of the legislature, to be printed correctly on good paper, with entirely new small pica type, in four volumes royal octavo, of six hundred pages, each well bound and lettered, at the price of two dollars and fifty cents per volume ... approved--the twenty-eighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and ten. Simon Snyder."--V. 1, p. [iii].
"Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... John Bioren is hereby authorized to close the fourth volume of the new edition of the laws with the laws of the session of one thousand eight hundred and seven-eight; and that all the laws subsequently passed, and which may be passed during the present session, shall be published and included in a fifth volume ... approved--the seventeeth [sic] day of January, one thousand eight hundred and twelve. Simon Snyder."--V. 4, verso of title page.
Vol. 5 has imprint date: 1812.
Vol. 1: lix, [1], 560 p.; v. 2: xxvi, 622 p.; v. 3: xliv, 556 p.; v. 4: xix, [1], 563, [1] p.; v. 5: xxxi, [5], 445, [1], 393, [1] p. Last p. of v. 4-5 blank.
Error in paging: v. 3, p. xxxvii misnumbered xxxvi.
"General index to the laws of Pennsylvania, in five volumes. From the year 1700, to the thirty-first of March, 1812, inclusive. Philadelphia: Printed by John Bioren, no. 88 Chesnut-street. 1812"--V. 5, 393 p., 3rd count. Also recorded separately by Shaw & Shoemaker as entry 26410.
Shaw & Shoemaker records v. 1-4 as entry 21026, and the complete set as entry 26414.
With a separate index to each of v. 1-4.
"Constitution of the United States of America."--V. 3, p. [xxvi]-xxxv.
"Constitution of the state of Pennsylvania."--V. 3, p. [xxxvi]-xliv.
"Certificate, notes, & extracts, by the secretary of the land-office."--V. 5, p. [x]-xxxi.
Laws of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from the fourteenth day of October, one thousand seven hundred to the [twenty-seventh day of February, one thousand eight hundred and one]
Volume 1 dated 1797; v. 2 dated 1798 (some copies misdated 1793); v. 3 dated 1795; v. 4 dated 1801.
Imprint of v. 4 reads: Lancaster: Printed by Francis Bailey, Centre-Square, 1801.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book numbers 574a, 574b, 575a, 575b, 576, and 577.
At top of title page of vol 2, copy 2: For the use of the Board of Commissioners, Lancaster County."
Evans,
Contents
I. October 14, 1700-October 1, 1781. 1797 -- II. October 2, 1781-October 2,1790. 1793 -- III. December 7, 1790-April 20, 1795. 1795 -- IV. December 1, 1795-February 27, 1801. 1801.
