Session laws of the territory of Minnesota, passed by the Legislative Assembly at the session commencing Wednesday, January 4, 1854. Published by authority
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- Saint Paul: Olmstead & Brown, territorial printers, 1854
Saint Paul: Olmstead & Brown, territorial printers, 1854. Bound with: Session Laws of the Territory of Minnesota passed by the Legislative Assembly at the session commencing ... January 3, 1855. Minneapolis: Hotchkiss, Staples & Jones, territorial printers, 1855. The first of the session laws to be printed in Minneapolis. Includes the acts to incorporate St. Paul and Stillwater. Sabin 49307, citing 1851 session laws. bound with: Session laws of the territory of Minnesota, passed by the legislative assembly, at the seventh session, commencing Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1856. Saint Paul, Joseph R. Brown, territorial printer, 1856. This printing of the session laws marks their return to St. Paul after a one-year stint in Minneapolis in 1855 at the presses of Hotchkiss, Staples, and Jones. Sabin 49307, citing 1851 session laws. Together 3 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. 184; 200; 390 (i.e. 379); ownership signature on the first title page of Thomas Wilson, County Treasurer whose occasional annotations and underlinings are in the margins of the first volume. Contemporary marbled boards rebacked in tan cloth, red and black morocco labels on spine; hinges strengthened, one label slightly chipped, but a good, sound and clean copy throughout. Results of the fifth, sixth, and seventh sessions of the Minnesota territorial legislature. Jerabek, Minnesota Territorial Documents, 59, 60, and 61; Martin, Minnesota Imprints, 71, 89, and 108.
