[LAW] HOUSE JOURNAL OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, 1865, WHICH CONVENED AT NASHVILLE, MONDAY, APRIL 3

Nashville, Tennessee: S. C. Mercer, Printer to the State, 1865. First Edition. Half Leather. Good binding. 8vo.; in tan half-calf over well-worn marbled board; 316 pages, including the Alphabetical Index to House Journal 1865; [with] APPENDIX, Comptroller's Report; Report of Supervisor of Banks; Foreign Insurance Companies; Distribution of Charities; Report of the Condition of the Tennessee Penitentiary; Reports of the Trustees and Superintendent of the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane; Report of the State Librarian of the Senate and House of Representatives, 155 pages.~~The front joint is cracked; there is handwritten paper label on the upper board which appears to be contemporary: "Clerk's Office"; the front hinge reinforced with paper tape at the title page.~~An illuminating picture of life in the State of Tennessee in the months following its departure from the Confederate States.~~Very uncommon. Good binding.