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CIVIL WAR - TEXAS] Group of Confederate-era imprints, 1861-65 , being General and Special laws, twelve volumes in 20th century cloth, first editions. Commencing with Laws of the Eighth Legislature of the State of Texas. Extra Session. Austin: Marshall & Co., 1861, 70 pp., Signed by district judge J. W. Oliver, ink notations to title; Special Laws passed by the Extra Session, 1861, 38 pp.; General Laws of the Ninth Legislature. Houston: Cushing, 1862. 64 pp., xiii; Special Laws of the Ninth Legislature. Austin: Almanac, 1863. 66 pp.; General Laws ... Extra Session ... Ninth Legislature, 1863, 44 pp.; Special Laws ... Extra Session ... Ninth Legislature, 1863, 22 pp.; General Laws of the Tenth Legislature (Called Session), with the Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States; Also, the Constitution of the State of Texas. Houston: Galveston "News", 1864. 64 pp.; and continuing with five volumes of the General and Special Laws ... Tenth Legislature, 1864-65; Stamps and stains, foxing but generally a clean run, includes two additional facsimiles not listed; Together with a group of eight volumes of reconstruction era works, 1866-76, including editions of the The Constitution of the State of Texas from 1866, 1871, and 1876; Convention journals printed in 1866, 1870 (two volumes); and two volumes of General Laws, 1866. 20th century cloth. Stamps, stains, etc. A very good run of rare laws of Texas during the Confederacy. The first work here includes An Act for submitting the Ordinance of Secession to the People and an 1864 volume prints the Confederate Constitution. Parrish and Willingham, Confederate Imprints 4191, 4181, 4182, 4183, 4185. The lot twenty-two volumes. C The New York City Bar Association