List of Acts passed at the first session of the 18th General Assembly. [caption title in one line, followed by descriptions of 286 acts passed during the session, printed in five columns, the first three, printing 59 acts, in much larger type and with more detail than the others]

[Nashville, TN], 1830. Large printed broadside, 28 x 20 1/2 inches, the head in large bold type. One of the acts provided for the building and funding of a state penitentiary near Nashville, another accounted for the extensive reform of penal laws, another "more effectually [provided] for emancipating slaves" ("Executors or administrators to emancipate slaves when so directed by the Will -- if they neglect, slaves may petition by their next friend, to give security as heretofore"), and a fourth provided for the founding of a state medical society. Not in Allen's "Tennessee Imprints." Not recorded on OCLC. Folded; a little foxing, but a very good copy. (#5003).