Congress of the United States: at the Third Session, Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the fixth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF GOVERNMENT DURING THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.; [followed by one long paragraph of dense text describing the appropriations]. Signed in type at the end by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg as Speaker of the House and John Adams as Vice-President and President of the Senate and "Approved" by George Washington as President

Published by Childs and Swaine, [Philadelphia, 1791

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Broadside, 29 x 20 cm, employing several styles and sizes of type. Appropriations were made for expenses of the civil list, for the amount "of one year's pensions to invalids," and for the Department of War, including for "defraying the expenses of an expedition lately carried on against certain Indian tribes" (Gen. Josiah Harmar's failed campaign in the Northwest Territory against the Shawnee and Miami), among others. Evans 23860 (locating the New York Public Library copy). ESTC W14379. OCLC locates four copies (American Antiquarian Society, Yale, Case Western Reserve, Library Company). Faint old tidelines in upper margins, left edge frayed (removed from a bound volume?). EVANS 23860 ESTC W14379 Two copies located on OCLC: AAS, Yale. Evans lists a copy at NYPL.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Congress of the United States: at the Third Session, Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the fixth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE SUPPORT OF GOVERNMENT DURING THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.; [followed by one long paragraph of dense text describing the appropriations]. Signed in type at the end by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg as Speaker of the House and John Adams as ...
• Publisher: Childs and Swaine, [Philadelphia
• Publication Date: 1791
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana