US House of Representatives. Reports of Committees, Volume 1, 19th Congress, 1st Session, Nos. 1-130. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. [11713]
Full sheep, brown leather title label, some scuffing/worming to the boards, 9 x 5 3/4 inches. Ex library bookplate & ink stamps, small paper number label to spine. Some folding charts, text with light foxing. Each of the 130 items paged numbered separately; the book is about 3 inches thick. The binding successfully treated with Cellugel. Good. Hardcover.
130 individual Congressional Reports on all manner of subjects, including Claim of the Marquis de Maison Rouge (Louisiana); Massachusetts Militia Claims (about 190 pages); Revolutionary Officers; Claims and Titles to Land in West Florida; Exploration of the Northwest Coast (26 pages); Military Road in Michigan (18 pp.); Washington Turnpike Road Company; On the State of the Finances (31 pp.); Appropriation - Slave Trade.
The complete title of the significant Northwest Coast exploration is, "Mr. Baylies, from the Select Committee to which the subject was referred, made the following Report: The Committee to whom 'so much of the message of the United States, as respects the establishment of a Military Post at the mouth of the Columbia River, and the expediency of providing for the more perfect exploring of the Northwest Coast of America" was conferred..."
The Report of the Slave Trade (no. 65) shows the monies dispersed, and how dispersed, for the "Support of the Agency on the Coast of Africa for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, and persons of color delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the slave trade, by commanders of the United States' armed vessels..."
