ACTS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, 1841-4

Murfreesboroug: D. Cameron & Co., 1842. xiii,278pp. plus folding table. Contemporary three-quarter calf and paper- covered boards, gilt titles. Edges and boards worn and chipped, joints split but holding. Full-page contemporary pencil inscription on front pastedown, faint library stamp to a few leaves, minor occasional foxing. Good. A rare collection of the laws passed by the Tennessee General Assembly during October 1841. Covers the requisite legal and governmental concerns of a frontier American state, notably building infrastructure, regulating the militia, land & estate matters, voting laws, establishing courts, taxation, and more. This session also incorporates several towns, namely Lynchburg, empowered the governor to commute the death sentence, and amended existing laws in relation to "free persons of color." Of particular note is the third resolution adopted Feb. 7, 1842, headed, "Preamble and Resolution in favor of the admission of Texas into the Union with equal rights and upon an equal footing with the sovereign States of these United States of America." Also, the twenty-fourth resolution calls for compensation for "the Tennessee Volunteers who have lost horses and other property in the late Indian War in Florida." Rare. Allen locates just three copies. ALLEN 1840. AII (TENNESSEE) 61.