[Rarebooks] FA: 1863 Civil War, Immigration, Indian Reparation Laws + more!

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Offered to the highest bidder this week, a single volume in which Congress 
promotes Grant, asks John Ericsson to build more ironclads, and tells 
Colorado to draw up a Constitution... all offered without reserve, because 
quite frankly, I can't chew gum and figure reserves at the same time, so 
guess which one I gave up?
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"Laws of the United States of America, passed at the First Session of the 
Thirty-eighth Congress 1863-64" Published by the Washington Government 
Printing Office in 1864. Oh, for the good old days when all the acts and 
resolutions of the first session of the U.S. Congress could be neatly bound 
into a 492 page book. No lengthy amendments here, just straightforward 
lawmaking.

There is a great deal of interesting Civil War content including:

- the rank of Lieutenant-General is revived (for Ulysses Grant)
- the Fugitive Slave Act is repealed
- the crew of the ironclad gunboat "Essex" are awarded a bounty for 
destroying the rebel ram "Arkansas"
- "an Act to provide for the speedy punishment of guerrilla marauders"
- a resolution calling for an investigation of the Fort Pillow Massacre
- a resolution to authorize a contract with John Ericsson (builder of the 
ironclad "Monitor") to construct the floating batteries "Dictator" and 
"Puritan"
- Congressional thanks to many generals, including Nathan P. Banks for his 
victory at Port Hudson, William T. Sherman for his victory at the Battle of 
Chattanooga, and Admiral Porter for opening the Mississippi River.

Also of interest is the first Congressional act to centralize control of 
immigration, including:

- Encouragement of immigration
-The appointment of a Commissioner of immigration, his salary and length of 
term
- The banning of the establishment of slavery or servitude for emigrants
- Establishment of the United States Emigrant Office in New York

And, on top of all that, the acts that give Colorado and Nevada, and 
Nebraska the right to form constitutions and state governments. All of this 
is but a small sampling of the information contained in this book.

Just listed; no reserve-
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