Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 150

Price Realized: $ 500
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(LAW.) Three early volumes of the Journal of the Senate of the United States of America. Folio, modern cloth, gilt-stamped with name of Texas judge (and Houston Astros owner) Roy Hofheinz, two volumes incorporating parts of the original boards; first two volumes in strong condition, third volume incomplete and defective. Philadelphia: John Fenno, 1792-94
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First Session of the Second Congress. 228 pages; property of Christopher Ellery, United States Senator from Rhode Island from 1801-05, and nephew of Declaration of Independence signer William Ellery; contents generally clean. The Senate, then just two years old, was still addressing some basic issues in this session, which ran from October 1791 to May 1792. Major legislation discussed in detail here included the acts establishing the United States Post Office (pages 74-126, passim) and the Mint (pages 17-171, passim). The cod fisheries, militia organization, and pensions also receive attention. Evans 24911. Philadelphia, 1791 [1792].

Second Session of the Second Congress. 100 pages; signature clipped from second leaf, moderate foxing. This volume covers sessions from November 1792 to March 1793, including the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, more formally "An Act Respecting Fugitives from Justice and Persons Escaping from the Service of their Masters," discussed in passing from pages 16-57. Evans 26333. Philadelphia, 1792 [1793].

First Session of the Third Congress. 118 [of 205] pages, lacking the last half of the volume, with title page brittle and toned; property of John Watts, United States Representative from New York during the Third Congress. Evans 27911. Philadelphia, 1793 [1794].