DIGEST AND MANUAL OF THE RULES AND PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN WHICH IS ALSO INCLUDED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . . . JEFFERSON'S MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. . . (Spine: "Constitution Manual and Digest. Rules and Practice House of Rep's. 1st Session 49th Congress.")

Smith, Henry H. (compiler). United States Congress, House of Representatives. James Milton Weaver, 1853-1936 (original owner). [John Mills Allen, 1846-1917.]

Published by Washington, DC: Government Printing Office [United States GPO - USGPO] - 1st Sess. 49th Congress, [1885].

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Personal copy of Mississippi state legislator James Milton Weaver (1853-1936) gifted by Mississippi Representative John Mills Allen (1846-1917; in office 1885-1901). DIGEST AND MANUAL OF THE RULES AND PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN WHICH IS ALSO INCLUDED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WITH THE AMENDMENTS THERETO, AND SO MUCH OF JEFFERSON'S MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE AS UNDER RULE XLIV GOVERNS THE HOUSE, THE STANDING RULES AND ORDERS FOR CONDUCTING BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; TABLES SHOWING COMMENCEMENT AND TERMINATION OF EACH SESSION OF CONGRESS WITH NAME OF SPEAKER AND CLERK, OF APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS FROM 1787, AND FORMATION OF STATES AND TERRITORIES, OF THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE NINTH AND TENTH CENSUSES, AND LIST OF MEMBERS AND DELEGATES, AND ALSO OF THE COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FIRST SESSION OF THE FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Ninth edition (as stated upon title page). vi, 550 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 15cm. Half leather binding - leather spine and marbled paper boards with leather corners. Scuffing to spine ends and along joints; spine's gilt lettering remains bright; surface paper losses to both boards with leather corners worn. Text block edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Four-line ink inscription "Jas. M. Weaver. | Rara Avis. | Miss. | Present by J.M. Allen. M.C." upon front flyleaf. Foxing/toning most prevalent to initial and rear leaves but with internal occurrences too. Binding is firm. A school teacher for 32 years and lifetime farmer, James M. Weaver (1853-1936) was elected to two terms as Superintendent of Education in Itawamba County before moving on to higher state offices, first representing Itawamba County in the Mississippi House of Representatives and thereafter elected to the state senate representing both Itawamba and Lee County. Per the inscription, Weaver's residence was in what is now the ghost town of Rara Avis located in eastern Itawamba County atop the Alabama state line. Weaver's tenure in state politics overlapped the career of U.S. Representative John Mills Allen (1846-1917) aka "Private John" Allen, a Tupelo attorney and former Confederate soldier who was elected to eight consecutive terms from 1885-1901. The book's inscription does not match the single Allen signature exemplar found online so there is some possibility that it is secretarial writing although this is countered by the two Tupelo-area politicians certainly knowing one another and the odd impropriety of Allen passing off an inscription to a political cohort upon an underling.

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• Title: DIGEST AND MANUAL OF THE RULES AND PRACTICE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN WHICH IS ALSO INCLUDED THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . . . JEFFERSON'S MANUAL OF PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. . . (Spine: "Constitution Manual and Digest. Rules and Practice House of Rep's. 1st Session 49th Congress.")
• Publisher: Washington, DC: Government Printing Office [United States GPO - USGPO] - 1st Sess. 49th Congress, [1885].
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana-Mississippi