[LOUSIANA PURCHASE]. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Eighth Congress of the United States...in the Year 1803. Washington, D.C., 1803.

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[LOUSIANA PURCHASE]. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Eighth Congress of the United States...in the Year 1803. Washington, D.C., 1803.

8o (233 x 142 mm). Contemporary wrappers (reinforced on verso, with later spine); quarter calf slipcase.

FIRST EDITION, CONTAINING THE EARLIEST ACTS RELATING TO THE LOUSIANA PURCHASE. Among the acts recorded here in the immediate period following the Louisiana Purchase are " An act to enable the President of the United States to take possession of the territories ceded by France" and acts relating to the payment of $11,250,000 to France. Many other acts relating to the Louisiana Purchase are recorded.

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