Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session...1865.
The First Compilation of Mississippi Session Laws Published After the Civil War [Mississippi]. Laws of the State of Mississippi, Passed at a Regular Session of the Mississippi Legislature, Held in the City of Jackson, October, November and December, 1865. Jackson: J.J. Shannon & Co., State Printers, 1866. 608 pp. Octavo (8" x 5"). Later three-quarter sheep over marbled boards, lettering piece and Washington State Law Library label to foot of spine, endleaves renewed. Light rubbing, ink library stamps to front board and bottom-edge of text block, front joint starting at ends, rear joint cracked, corners lightly bumped and worn. Light toning to interior, occasional light foxing, faint dampstains to a few leaves, ink library stamp to title page, which is lightly edgeworn, lower outside corner of title page replaced without loss to text. $100. * Official printing of laws passed by the Mississippi state legislature in 1865. This was the first volume of session laws published after the surrender of the Confederacy in April 1865. The compilation includes the Mississippi state constitution as ratified in 1832 and amended in August of 1865, along with a detailed table of contents and index. Many of the included amendments, resolutions and acts relate to the aftermath of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. They address issues such as wounded veterans, military records, taxation, appropriations and the new legal status of freedmen and free people of color. A series of resolutions addressed to Congress and President Andrew Johnson ask for clemency for the state as a whole and for Jefferson Davis, who was still in prison at the time. Another reports Mississippi's refusal to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery, on the grounds that Section 2, which gave Congress the power to enforce the amendment, constituted federal overreach. (Mississippi would not ratify the Thirteenth Amendment until 1995, the last state to do so.) Babbitt, Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 266.
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