US House of Representatives. Twenty-seventh Congress, Third Session, House of Representatives, Executive Documents nos. 30-109; huge MAP Delta of the St. Clair River. Washington: US House of Representatives, 1842. First Edition. [11740]
Full brown leather binding with red leather spine title label, bindings is in good solid condition, remnants of an old paper label on spine, 9 x 6 inches. Several old library bookplates/ink stamps on the end papers. Each of the items are have their own page numbers; the book is 3 1/2 inches thick with a couple of large folding maps/charts. The texts are clean. Good. Hardcover.
This is volume 3 of the 8 volume set that makes up this series. This begins with an index, and includes the following interesting items:
Boundary between Maine and New Hampshire and the adjoining British Provinces, with the large folding lithograph: Profile with the Spirit Level, of the Due North Line from the Monument at the Source of the River St. Croix to the River St. John
Sandwich Islands and China. Message from the President of the United States, respecting The trade and commerce of the United States with the Sandwich Islands, and of diplomatic intercourse with their Government; also, in relation to the new position of affairs in China, growing out of the late war between Great Britain and China, and recommending provision for a diplomatic agent.
Claims on Hayti (123 pp.)
Northern Boundary of Missouri (43 pp with large folding map)
General Jackson's Fine. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Illinois, concerning The fine imposed on General Jackson, at New Orleans, in 1815
Vessels built by the United States since 1826
Survey of the Ohio River (47 pp.)
Kentucky - Manufacturers of Fur Hats (memorial expressing alarm regarding a tariff on fur hats)
Explosion of Steam Boilers, with folding illustration of an apparatus to prevent explosions)
Contracts by late Board of Navy Commissioners
Expenditures from the Chickasaw Fund (83 pp.)
Lake Harbors. Letter from the Secretary of War, communicating A report of the Colonel of the
Corps of Topographical Engineers, in relation to lake harbors, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives on the 7th instant. With an enormous folding map, "Delta of St. Clair," (28 x 48 inches)
Contracts of the War Department - 1842
Arrest and Trial [by Court Martial] of E. L. Louallier
Laws Passed by the Legislature of Florida (58 pp.)
Persons Employed in the Indian Department
Survey of Grand and Spring Rivers
Claim of the Creek Indians (52 pp.)
Medicine and Hospital Stores (25 pp. of detailed records)
Cherokee Treaty of 1835-'36. Memorial of David Taylor, G. F. Norris, and J. K. Rogers, Cherokee claimants under the treaty of 1835-'36.
Patent Office. Report from the Commissioner of Patents, showing The operations of the Patent Office during the year 1842. (173 pp.)
Plus many, many more.
