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Laws of the 6th Congress of Texas; 1842

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Laws of the 6th Congress of Texas; 1842
<B><I>Laws Passed by the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas.</B></I></B></I> (Austin: S. Whiting, Public Printer, Published by Authority<I>, </B></I>1842.) Octavo, 120 pp., index, vii p., verso blank. <I>Abstract of Private Acts</B></I> and <I>Joint Resolutions</B></I>, viii p. Included here are the laws passed at the regular session of the Sixth Congress. Whiting's charge of March 4, 1842, was for 2000 copies (Ms., Archives, Texas State Library). They are given in a page-for-page reprint, except for the omission of the printer's name and address from the imprint on the title page, in Gammel, Vol. II, p. [673]-808. Full gold-stamped leather binding. Moderate to significant age toning throughout; water stains at extreme right edge of pages. <I>From the collection of Darrel Brown.</B></I><BR><BR><B>Reference:</B></I> Streeter <I>Texas</B></I> 535. Raines, p. 230. Sabin 95000, note.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)