1823 1ed Washington DC Digest of Laws American Politics Tobacco Liquor SLAVES

1823 1^ed Washington DC Digest of Laws American Politics Tobacco Liquor SLAVES

‘A Digest of the Laws of the City of Washington’ is a collection of laws passed in the early 19^th-century through 1823. These laws include those relating to slaves, free Negroes, orphans and orphanages, taxation, regulations on settlements, tobacco and liquor laws, peddlers, rights given to police officers, gun laws and penalties for firearm mismanagement, and much more!

EARLIEST BOOK OF DC LAW!

Item number: #5129

Price: $750

BURCH, Samuel

A digest of the laws of the corporation of the city of Washington : to the first of June, 1823 ; with an appendix, containing the acts of cession from Maryland & Virginia, the laws of the United States, relating to the District of Columbia, the building regulations of the said city, &c.

City of Washington : Printed by J. Wilson, 1823. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • [5], 6-363, [1]
  • 3 folding tables
• Provenance: with the ownership signature of Randolph Coyle, an early mapmaker and surveyor, who helped design the expansion of the District of Columbia
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight & secure
• Size: ~9in X 5.75in (23cm x 15cm)
• Extremely rare with no other example for sale worldwide

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