Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session...1861.
Confederate-Era Mississippi Session Laws, 1861-1862 [Mississippi]. Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, Held in the City of Jackson, November & December, 1861, And January, 1862. Jackson: Cooper & Kimball, State Printers, 1862. 333 pp. Octavo (7-3/4" x 4-3/4"). Recent library buckram, ink stamps to front board, title to spine, endpapers renewed. Light soiling to exterior, ink library stamp to front pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, occasional light foxing, loss to bottom line of text on pp. 6 & 11 (Table of Contents) due to printer error, trimming to fore-edge just touching side notes on a few leaves without loss to legibility, two small holes and faint inkstamp to title page. $150. * Official printing of laws passed by the Mississippi state legislature from November 1861-January 1862. The compilation includes the state's Confederate constitution, based on the Mississippi constitution as ratified in 1832, and a detailed table of contents and index. Many of the included amendments, resolutions and acts relate to the Civil War, which had begun in April 1861. They address issues such as military pay, slavery, free people of color and wartime financial appropriations. Parrish & Willingham, Confederate Imprints 3293. Babbitt, Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 266.
Price: $150.00
Book number 82707