(GEORGIA) State of Facts Shewing the Right of Certain Compan

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(GEORGIA.) State of Facts, Shewing the Right of Certain Companies to the Lands Lately Purchased by Them from the State of Georgia. 8vo, early plain wrappers; moderate foxing, title page with early ink marks and inscription excised from upper margin; uncut. United States [Philadelphia?], 1795

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A defense by the perpetrators of the Yazoo Land Scandal, in which land companies bribed state officials to secure grants in western Georgia (now in Alabama and Mississippi). The grants were overturned by the legislature the following year. Evans 28745; Howes G126 ("aa"); Sabin 27112; Streeter sale II:1158. One other copy known at auction since 1975 (Swann sale, 21 October 2004).