Acts Passed at the First (Second, and Third) Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, In the State of Pennsylvania, On Monday the fifteenth of May ,in the Year M,DCC,XCVII. And of the Independence of the United States, the Twenty-First

Published by Printed by Richard Folwell, No. 33, Carter's-Alley, Philadelphia, 1799

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Official omnibus edition. (Folwell had earlier printed the acts of each session individually). Octavo. 240, vii (table of contents), 561, 26 (Constitution), iv (table of contents), [48 index] pp. Full leather with maroon spine label ("Laws of U. States") gilt. Modern owner label on front pastedown, slightly older stamp ("Claude V. Guerin Attorney at Law, Asbury Park, New Jersey") on front fly, and Contemporary owner signature ("Wm." or "Mm. C. Wells") three times, with one brief marginal note. Binding worn with boards attached by the cords, page edges frassed, occasional foxing and tanning throughout, a good, unrestored copy. A scarce edition of this collection of laws that prints among much else the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the Act establishing the Marine Corps. Also prints the U.S. Constitution, and "Articles of a Treaty Between the United States of America and the Cherokee Indians.".

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Acts Passed at the First (Second, and Third) Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, In the State of Pennsylvania, On Monday the fifteenth of May ,in the Year M,DCC,XCVII. And of the Independence of the United States, the Twenty-First
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Printed by Richard Folwell, No. 33, Carter's-Alley, Philadelphia
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1799
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1st Edition
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