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
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 city of Philadelphia on Monday, the first day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four ... Published by authority
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 Monday, the first day of September, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four ... Published by authority
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 second day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and of the independence of the United States the eleventh. : Published by authority
Printed by Hall and Sellers, no. 51, Market-Street.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCV. [1795]
Physical Description
pages [3], 650-793, [1], v, [41] ; 33 cm (fol.)
Notes
Issued as part of: Pennsylvania. [Laws, etc.] Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, v. 3, Philadelphia, 1795 (Evans 29291). First issued separately (Evans 29285).
With a table of titles and an index, v, [41] p. at end.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Book number 21 as arranged by Yeates.
Evans
Three-quarters leather over brown paper-covered boards.
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 second day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and of the independence of the United States the eleventh. : Published by authority
Printed by Hall and Sellers, no. 51, Market-Street.,
Date of Publication
M. DCC. XCV. [1795]
Physical Description
p. [3], 650-793, [1], v, [41] ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Notes
Issued as part of: Pennsylvania. [Laws, etc.] Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, v. 3, Philadelphia, 1795 (Evans 29291). First issued separately (Evans 29285).
Signatures: chi1 8B-9O² 9P1 9Q-10C² 10D1 (10D1 verso blank).
With a table of titles and an index, v, [41] p. at end.
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 third day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States of America, the eighteenth
Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]