United States CongressActs Passed at the First Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States. Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the Second of December, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Nine. [Bound with]: Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States. Begun and Held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the Seventeenth of November, Eighteen Hundred. Richmond: Meriwether Jones, 1800, 1801
106, [2]; 66pp.; a few scattered ink and pencil manuscript notations. Minor soiling to titlepages, light foxing and toning. Bound to style in half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Rare Richmond imprint. Two Richmond printings of the collected acts passed by the first and second sessions of the Sixth United States Congress. The laws enacted by the second session of this Congress include the famous Judiciary Act of 1801, which led to President John Adams's "Midnight Appointments" of numerous judges just prior to the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson The second session was also the first meeting of Congress to be held in Washington, D.C.
OCLC notes that copies of the statutes of the first session are owned by just five institutions, while copies of the second session laws belong to only three. The 1801 imprint is not noted by Shaw & Shoemaker
REFERENCE:ESTC W14745; Evans 38703; OCLC 19810519, 19810522
United States CongressActs Passed at the First Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States. Begun and Held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the Second of December, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Nine. [Bound with]: Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States. Begun and Held at the City of Washington, in the Territory of Columbia, on Monday the Seventeenth of November, Eighteen Hundred. Richmond: Meriwether Jones, 1800, 1801
106, [2]; 66pp.; a few scattered ink and pencil manuscript notations. Minor soiling to titlepages, light foxing and toning. Bound to style in half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Rare Richmond imprint. Two Richmond printings of the collected acts passed by the first and second sessions of the Sixth United States Congress. The laws enacted by the second session of this Congress include the famous Judiciary Act of 1801, which led to President John Adams's "Midnight Appointments" of numerous judges just prior to the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson The second session was also the first meeting of Congress to be held in Washington, D.C.
OCLC notes that copies of the statutes of the first session are owned by just five institutions, while copies of the second session laws belong to only three. The 1801 imprint is not noted by Shaw & Shoemaker
REFERENCE:ESTC W14745; Evans 38703; OCLC 19810519, 19810522
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