Journal of the Convention to Reduce and Equalize the Representation of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Assembled in Milledgeville, On the 6th Day of May, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine

[Georgia] [Law]

Published by P. L. Robinson, State Printer, Milledgeville, 1839

About this Item

Wraps bound into black cloth covered boards and red leather spine. Title on the spine. Institutional copy with rubber stamp on the title page. Spine chipped and joints cracked. Moderate to heavy toning to the text. Several blank leaves bound in after the text. Fair only. Contents were a detailed attempt to remedy malapportionment in Georgia. Delegates are listed, yeas and nays recorded, on the various efforts to reduce number of representatives and base representation to some extent on the census of slaves. According to De Renne, the Constitutional Amendments adopted by the Convention were "Not ratified by the people on the first Monday of October as provided by the Act" convening the Convention. Derenne Vol. 2 p.466.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Journal of the Convention to Reduce and Equalize the Representation of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Assembled in Milledgeville, On the 6th Day of May, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty-Nine
• Publisher: P. L. Robinson, State Printer, Milledgeville
• Publication Date: 1839
• Binding: Wraps
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Slavery
  • Law
  • Georgia
  • Political