Executive Documents printed by order of The House of Representatives at the Second Session of the Twenty-Second Congress (3 volume set), begun and held at the City of Washington, December 3, 1832, and in the fifty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States. In Three Volumes.

Three large volumes in full brown sheep, red leather spine title labels, old paper label with hand-written numbers to spines. Bindings are tight with fine joints; typical scuffing/pulls to the sheep bindings. 9 x 6 inches, each with old ex library stamps/bookplates on the end papers; vol. ii. with an ink stain on the front board, and 1 inch split in the front joint. There are 148 separate documents in this set, each numbered separately. The set takes up 8 1/2 inches of shelf space. The year is 1832. Andrew Jackson is re-elected President of the United States by an overwhelming majority in his race against Henry Clay; Martin Van Buren is Vice-President. It is the year of the Black Hawk War, of Jackson's veto of the renewal of the charter of the Second Bank of the United States, the Department of Indian Affairs was established, and Schoolcraft submits his report of explorations among the American Indians. It was also the smoldering beginning of nullification stances among some of the Southern States, over the issue of tariffs.Here are just a few of the 148 reports in this set: Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress, a document of 240 pages covering Indian Affairs, the Navy, Fortifications, Finances, &c.; Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury showing expenditures in minute detail; The revision of the US Military; Detailed Charts showing Appropriations for 1833; Jackson's Message of December 6, objecting to Internal Improvements; President Jackson's remarkable 1833 State of the Union Address wherein he addresses the nullification acts of South Carolina (112 pp.); A 105 pp. Report on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company; Condition of the different State Banks (89 pp.); Commerce and Navigation of the United States (298 pp.); Contracts of the War Department for 1832; Northwestern Indians: A copy of a Report of Schoolcraft's Expedition among the Northwest Indians (16 pp.); Patents for Useful Inventions; A Report of the Militia Force of the United States; Indian Agents: Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting Copies of accounts of persons charged with the disbursement of money, &c. for the benefit of the Indians (140 pp.); Kentucky Legislature - Nullification: Preamble and Resolutions in relation to nullifying acts of Cngress by a single State of the Union (8 pp, disapproves of SC's acts); French Spoliations since 1800: Message from the President of the United States, transmitting Sundry Papers upon the subject of Claims against the French Government for Spoliations on American Commerce since September, 1800 (215 pp.).…