Published by Epiphany Sessions 6 January, 1852
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Add to basketFolio, 4 pp. Bifolium. On laid paper. The drophead title (of which the start is quoted above) runs to 14 lines. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Printed in double column. Yeoman signs in type at the end of the document, which contains three reports, each signed in type by the chairman of the committee which produced it: Mauleverer for the Visiting Justices; Lockwood for the Finance Committee; and Johnstone for the Committee of Visitors of the Noth and East-Ridings' Lunatic Asylum. Includes itemised 'Victualling Account', the 'General Gaol Accounts for the Quarter', 'Bridge Master's Accounts', 'Treasurer's Account', 'The Bridge Surveyor's Accounts', 'The Accounts Connected with the Clerk of the Peace's Office'. These include such items as £10 6s 6d to 'Thomas Hamilton, for Leather for Prisoners' Clogs', and £2 3s 0d to 'Rachael Wilkinson, for cleaning Court House, lighting Fires, and getting in Coals'. The document ends with a notice and eleven orders.
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Washington, DC: War Department, 1863 January 29. 16mo. 2pp (single leaf). Handbill. Very good. Binding traces down left edge. Mourning border. Announcement of the death of Colonel John James Abert (1788-1863), chief topographical engineer and head of the Topographical Bureau. A long-time career officer, Abert headed this bureau from 1834 until his 1861 retirement. "The Army and the country will not need to be reminded of the vast interest and value attached to the operations of this corps since its organization," Thomas reminds the reader. "The geographical and other information concerning this continent which its officers have collected and published, has challenged the admiration of the scientific world." Signed in type at the conclusion by Adjutant General Thomas.