The early history of Louisiana. Letter from Mr.Charles gayarre to the Hon. Randall L. Gibson, of the House of representatives, relative to the early history of Louisiana, Part 1

Author: Gayarre, Charles, 1805-1895
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
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EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA


Letter from Mr. Charles Gayarre to the Hon. Randall L. Gibson of the House of representatives relative to the early history of Louisiana


To accompany bill H. R. 4191.5


Charles Étienne Arthur Gayarre


Washington 1880


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46TH CONGRESS, 2dl Session.


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ( MIS. DOC. No. 22.


THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA?


LETTER


FROM MR. CHARLES GAYARRE


TO THE HON. RANDALL L. GIBSON, OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, RELATIVE TO The early history of Louisiana. [To accompany bill H. R. 4191. ]


FEBRUARY 2, 1880 .- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed.


NEW ORLEANS, January 13, 1880.


DEAR SIR : I now present to you, at your request, in the shape of a letter, what information I can give about the documents of importance to her colonial history which the State of Louisiana had procured from the archives of France and Spain, and which were destroyed at Baton Rouge, or carried away, when that capital of the State was taken by the Federal troops in our late civil war. Some of them, however, I have lately recovered from Mr. Draper, Secretary of the Wisconsin Historical Society, who tendered them to me with much kindness and liberality. They are now deposited in the State library, New Orleans.


It is easy, on proper application, to examine the French archives for any historical investigations. Every facility is even thrown in the way of the explorer.


Governor Morton, when in office, bought, on my recommendation, for the sum of §1,000, from Mr. Magne, one of the proprietors and editors of the New Orleans Bee, a valuable manuscript volume of documents which that gentleman had obtained permission to copy from the French archives in Paris.


Mr. Edmund Forstall, now dead, one of our public-spirited citizens, having sojourned some time in France, examined or caused to be ex- amined the archives of that country in relation to her former colony of Louisiana, and on his return presented to the State an important col- lection of materials for the use of her future historians.


llon. John Perkins, who was for several years one of the representa- tives of the State in Congress, also enriched the archives of Louisiana with two large manuscript volumes handsomely bound and treating of our former colonial relations with France.


As to the Spanish archives concerning Louisiana, there was an ab- solute blank until lately. Nothing had been left here nor in Cuba, and it was positively ascertained that it was only in Spain that our State could obtain some information as to the records of her coiomal ex- istence under the new government to which she had been tismusferred by France.


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In 1849, when secretary of state, I obtained an appropriation of $2,000 . from our general assembly to procure documents from the archives of Spain. It led to a prolonged correspondence which I had with Mr. Romulus Saunders, our minister plenipotentiary at the time in Spain, and with Don Pascual de Gayangos, a Spanish man of letters, who has immortalized himself by his works, and with whom I became acquainted through my friend Mr. Prescott, the historian. Without the influence and the persistent exertions of Mr. de Gayangos I believe that the archives of Spain would not have been examined as I desired. My private correspondence with Mr. de Gayangos and Mr. Prescott on the subject is curious and amusing. What was of a nature to be published in a report which I made to our legislature I lay before you. You will find the inclosed printed document quite instructive on the condition of the Spanish archives and on the difficulties to be encountered as to their examination. I hope that this document contains sufficient in- formation to answer your purposes, and I think that it is not necessary for me to add any thing beyond what is therein to be found.


I will, however, say that my private correspondence on the subject, without the knowledge of Mr. Saunders, and to remove from his path difficulties unsuspected by him, is a chapter of secret history which, as usual, is more interesting and more illustrative than what is generally to be met under the stately dress and form of public history. For in- stance, to begin with Mr. de Gayangos. He had written to Mr. Pres- cott that he was willing to serve me as he had served him, Prescott, "because there was all over the world a freemasonry and a fraternity among men of letters which was to be sacredly kept up," but he was not disposed to put himself in contact with the American minister, "who is not one of us." This was the language of that punctilious gentle- man, and his objection was to be removed. Then a great personage, whom I did not know personally, but who had traditionally been con- nected with my family by the bonds of friendship, was approached by me. He replied that he would do any thing to oblige me, but could not assist Mr. Saunders. Therefore he would send his secretary to Mr. Saunders to guide him, if I desired it, but would have no personal in- tercourse with him. Is it not ludicrous ? Besides, there was the tooth and mail opposition of the Duke of Sotomayor, who was determined that it should not be known that through the manipulations of his father, Gardogui, the Spanish minister at Washington, Wilkinson had become a traitor and sold himself to a foreign government. He main- tained that it would be a breach of faith. I had to argue that question at length. I really believed at the time that had I not been of Spanish origin (muy great grandfather having come as contador with the first Spanish governor, in 1765, to take possession of Louisiana) our negotia- tions to examine the archives might have failed. This accident of birth. and the fact of a kinsman of mine having been a member of the regency of Spain during the French invasion. with the Duke of Infantado and others, being skillfully paraded, had no little influence, I am con- vineed, in appeasing the suspicions which had been roused by the formal and official application of our minister to examine the archives. I men- tion these things to make you aware of the sceret as well as of the public difficulties which may have to be encountered by our government when attempting to make a thorough examination of the archives of Spain con- corning Louisiana. They are in great confusion and scattered about : much work for a full investigation will have to be done, not only in Madrid batt also in Seville. Simancas, Cadiz, and other places. As to Ils: archives of France, their examination is comparatively an easy task. to call your attention to the manuscript history of Loui-


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siana by Senlis, mentioned by Mr. de Gayangos in his letter to Mr. Saunders, dated July 13, 1849. In a subsequent letter of a private nature to me, Mr. de Gayangos, as far as I can recollect, for it would give me too much trouble to look for that letter in a mass of papers, stated his belief that the manuscript alluded to could be had fora trifling sum. Mr. de Gayangos is dead; but by inquiring at Cuenca, where the descendant of the author still lives, or for any of the Senlis family now in existence, through the channel of the Spanish ambassador at Washington, perhaps something might be done, and that manuscript procured, if found to be valuable.


In conclusion, I must say that all which was really interesting in those copies from the French and Spanish archives to which I have alluded in this letter has been embodied in my history of Louisiana. But, at the same time, I cannot but assure you that this mine of historical wealth thus opened to us by imperfect researches is far from being ex- hausted.


Respectfully and truly yours,


CHARLES GAYARRE, Post-Office, New Orleans, box 1797.


General RANDALL L. GIBSON, M. C., St. Charles Hotel.


REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE ON THE STATE LIBRARY .- BATON ROUGE, 1850.


To the senate and house of representatives of the State of Louisiana in gen- eral assembly convened :


I have the honor to transmit to your honorable body the annexed doc- ument, marked A, showing the situation of the State library for the year 1849. Of the money annually appropriated for the purchase of books, the sum of $1,016.14 has been invested this year in the acquisition of 240 volumes. The balance, $1.02, will be refunded to the treasurer of the State.


On the eve of retiring from the office which I have filled for four years it gives me satisfaction to have, either by purchase, exchange or other- wise, acquired some valuable and rare works for the State library, which I shall deliver to my successor with an increase of 1,091 volumes. I beg leave to recommend that the same annual appropriation of $1,000 be at least continued, if not made greater. Under the liberal patronage of the legislature, with proper management, and with the application of salutary regulations, I have no doubt that the State library will become still more respectable, and worthy of its destination.


The boxing up and the transportation of all the books appertaining to the State library has been a serious work, which the State librarian has had to perform in addition to his.ordinary duties. The salary, which consists of $50 per month, has not been proportionate to the obligations of that office, and I beg leave respectfully to suggest that the regular salary be increased, and that an extra compensation, suited to the extra work I have mentioned, be granted to the present incumbent, who has always discharged his duties with zeal and ability.


I feel no small degree of satisfaction in informing your honorable body that I have lately received several bundles containing copies of Spanish doemments of an historical nature, for the procuring of which the State had made an appropriation in 1817. I have not yet had sufficient time to exam- ine them and to ascertain whether they are such as to meet the expectations of your honorable body. The doenment hereunto annexed and marked B contains the correspondence which I had on the subject with Mr.


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Saunders, the United States minister plenipotentiary at the court of Madrid. It is not destitute of interest, and gives the history of the many difficulties which had to be overcome to procure those documents. As you will see by the statements and accounts furnished by Mr. Saunders, the whole of the sum appropriated ($2,000) has been disbursed, and I gather from the letters now submitted to your consideration that we have a right to expect some more copies which seem to have not been as yet ready when Mr. Saunders left Spain. The investigations made in the archives of that country are not complete, and further discoveries remain to be made. It is for your honorable body to decide whether an additional appropriation to continue the researches already begun would be judicious. I cannot but hope that you will come to the conclusion that any money employed in the elucidation of our history would be a useful application of the public treasure.


In a report which, at the request of the senate, I made in 1848 to that honorable body, and which was published with their journal, I demon- strated how defective was the organization of the department of the secretary of state. The reformation which it demands is so necessary that I deem it my duty to call your attention to that document. I hope that, if taken into consideration and acted upon, it will be the means of securing to my successor greater facilities for the discharge of his duties.


Respectfully submitted.


CHARLES GAYARRE, Secretary of State.


STATE LIBRARY OF LOUISIANA.


Transactions of the State librarian during the four last years, under the direction of Hon. Charles Gayarre, secretary of state.


BOOKS PURCHASED DURING THE YEAR 1846.


Authors' names.


Works.


Number of


volumes.


McCulloch


Gazetteer


Richardson


English Dictionary


2 2


National Portraits


4


Dallas


1


Cranch


do


Wheaton


do do


13 4


Pictorial History of France and England.


Southern Review


Charlevoix


Travels


1


De Solis


Conquest of Mexico.


Story


Works.


History of Oregon and California


1 3


Martin


Reports


Long


Expedition to the Rocky Mountains


1


Walkenart


Collection of Travels


21


Long


Expedition to the Somces of the St. Peter.


1


Aaron Burr.


Memoirs


Colden.


History of the Five Nations ..


1


Stoddard


History of Louisiana.


Robin


Travels in Louisiana.


1


Periin dn Lic


do


I


History of the Jesuits


Michelet


History of France.


Thiers


Consulateand Empire


3


Universal Biography


10 4 3


Prescott


Conquest of Mexico.


Sporet Proceedings aml Debates of the Convention of 1787.


1


1


Bradford


American Antiquities


1


3


Laval


Encyclopedia Americana


13


Views of Central America (atlas) Reports


1


Howard


THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.


Transactions of the State librarian, s.c .- Continued. PURCHASED DURING THE YEAR 1846-Continued.


Authors' names.


Works.


Number of volumes.


Biography of the Great Men of the Day. :


6


Tibbins


English and French Dictionary.


Thierry


History of the Conquest of England by the Normans (with an atlas) ...


Do


Historical Essays


1


PURCHASED DURING THE YEAR 1847.


MeKenny.


History of the Indians


1


Statesman Manual .


2


United States Digest


3


Harrisson


Digest of Cases Decided in the House of Lords


5


Ang. Ames


On Corporations


1


Greenleaf


Evidence (On)


2


Kent


Commentaries


4


E. Salverte


Occult Sciences


1 2


Spark.


Biography (new series).


11


Thiers


Consulate and Empire (continuation)


2


De Bow Commercial Review, from 1st January, 1846, to 1st of January, 1848.


2


Monette


Valley of the Mississippi.


2


Early Jesnit Mission in America.


1


Blackstone


Commentaries


2


Benjamin and Slidell Deslix Do


. do


1


Annotations


1


Greiner


Code of Practice


1


Rayer


Diseases of the Skin


1


Pancoast


Operative Surgery


1


Gross


Pathological Anatomy


1


Dunglison


Medical Dictionary


1


Story


On Sales . .


1


Prescott


Conquest of Peru .


164


Moreau


Practical Midwifery


1


PURCHASED . DURING THE YEAR 1848.


Howard


Reports


1 2


Marshall.


Astronomical Map and Key


Thiers


Atlas to the History of the Consulate and Empire.


1


United States Farm Book.


1


Holcomb.


Digest .


1


London ..


London's Magazine of Gardening.


9


Dourning


Fruits and Fruit Trees of America


1


Lindley


Vegetable Kingdom


1


Bonsinganlt


Rural Economy


1


Scott


Engineer's and Machinist's Assistant.


1


Naturalist's Library


40


Chambers


British Encyclopedia of Literature ..


McCulloch ..


Principles of Political Economy


1


C. Pritchard


Rescarches into Philosophical History of Man


5


Ellicott .


Journal and Atlas. .


Pike


Expedition ...


1


Pittman


European Settlement of the Mississippi.


1


Hawkin


Quebec


1


Brodhead


Letters from an American Farmer. Final Report


1


Silliman


Journal of Sciences .


54 1


Woodbury


Reports (vol. Ist )


1


Howard


Reports (vol. 6th)


2


De Bow.


Review ..


Encyclopedia Britannica. .


21 2


Bruyeres


Digest


1


Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine


4


Southern Quarterly Review


4 2


Memoirs of the French Academy


1


United States Laws.


Poets and Prose Writers of America.


The Bible.


1


Dictionary of the French Academy


63251


1


Continuation of the Memoirs of the French Academy


130


Ancient Mounments of the Mississippi Valley.


2


Southern Review


Phrenologie .. .


Pearls of American Poetry


5


6


THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.


Transactions of the State librarian, S.c .- Continued. PURCHASED DURING THE YEAR 1849.


Authors' names.


Works.


Cost.


Number of volumes.


Lamartine


Girondins (les).


$6 00


1


Cromwell's Speeches


2 50


2


Irving


Bracebridge Hall.


1 50


1


Burnet


Notes on North-Western Territory.


3 00


1


Lives of the Lords Chancellors of England


8 00


4


Michaux


Chênes d'Amérique et Flora Borealis.


13 33


3


Oxmelin


Recueil des voyages


S


4


Plumier


Plantes de l'Amérique


13 20


1


Ulloa


Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale


779 63


164


American State Trials


6 00


1


Ulloa


Mémoires


-


2


Volney


Tableau du climat d'Amerique ..


2


Milfort


Mémoire sur les Creeks


17 18


2


Dumont


Mémoires sur la Louisiane


Thomas.


Culture des bois ..


6 00


Béranger


Œuvres illustrées


10 00


2


Humboldt


Cosmos ..


7 00


2


Layard .


Viniveh and Remains


4 50


2


Woodsworth


Greece


14 00


1


Middle Ages


2 00


1


Ecclesiastical History


7 00


2


Thiers


De la propriété ..


2 00


1


De Bow


Commercial Review.


5 00


2


Lyell


Second Tour.


1 50


2


Sonthern Review


28 50


6


Veillées Louisianaises


3 00


1


1


Hawk


Egypt


3 00


1


Civil Engineering


24 00


1


The Presidents.


3 50


1


Shipmasters' Assistant


5 00


1


Commercial Digest


5 00


1


School Architecture.


2 00


1


Chemistry of the Seasons


1 50


1


Modern British Essayist Dravage.


18 75


8


Binding of Books


2 50


Total


1,016 14


1,008


Number of volumes bought in 1846


250


Do .1847


227


Do


1848


291


Do


1849


240


Total


1,008


. BOOKS ACQUIRED PER EXCHANGE DURING THE YEAR 1846.


Authors' names.


Works.


Numberof volumes.


Dumont


Memoirs on Louisiana


3


Lepage


do


3


Hennepin


1


Lahontan


do


3


Deshozières Laharpe


1


Duvallon


1


Trévoux.


Dictionary


8


Coutumier general, or the Old Common Law of France ..


1


.


Hallam Do.


Aventures de Beanchène


3


N. de Taboada Do.


Dictionnaire de I'Academie Espagnole.


5 00


2


Transactions of the Royal British Society


Drayage


1 50


Vue de la Colonie Espagnole du Mississippi


1


Dictionnaire Français-Espagnol et Espagnol-Français.


Testut


Dictionary of Americanismis


3 00


50


Bossu.


7


THE EARLY HISTORY OF LOUISIANA.


Transactions of the State librarian, S.c .- Continued. BOOKS ACQUIRED PER EXCHANGE DURING THE YEAR 1847.


Authors' names.


Works.


Number of volumes.


Chitty


Medical Jurisprudence


1


Burr's Trials. .


Elliott's


Diplomatic Code


2


Robinson's Penal Laws


29 3


Lives of the Lords Chancellors.


1


Story


Holmes' Statesman


1


Dalloz


Jurisprudence générale


12


Total


83


Number of volumes acquired per exchange, 1846. 28


.1847. 55


Total


83


BOOKS SENT BY OTHER STATES AND PRESENTED TO THE STATE LIBRARY, 1846 ..


Norman New Orleans and Environs


1


Report of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Florida.


1


Laws of Indiana (1846).


3


Napier.


Debates of Pennsylvania State Convention.


2


Life of R. H. Lee.


2 1


Hotchkiss


Statute Law of Georgia


1


Walker


Chaneery Reports of Michigan


1


Harrington .do.


Journal of the House of Representatives and of Senate of Illinois, 1844. Reports made to the House of Representatives and Senate of Illinois, 1844 Acts of South Carolina, 1846


3


Revised Statutes of Illinois


Laws of Mississippi, 1846


1


Laws of Indiana, 1846.


3


Laws of Kentucky, 1845-'46


1


Laws of New York


1


Laws of New Jersey


3


Spencer:


Reports of New Jersey, 1843-'44


1


Seventeenth Annual Report of the State Penitentiary of Pennsylvania for 1846


Memorial Soliciting a State Hospital in Pennsylvania, February, 1846. . 1


Lieber


Popular Essay on Subjects of Penal Law, 1847


1 2


Rock


Die Prenssischen Universitaten


3


J. F. Neigebaur


Die Preussischen Gymnasium


1


Das Botts Eschivesen ..


Menzel


Die Drei Roniglick Preussischen


Statuten der Juristischen Faculta, &c., &c.


Réglement


United States Statutes at Large


Ist Auditor's Annual Report, 1846, Kentucky


1


Report of a Minority of the Special Committee of the Boston Prison Discipline Society. 1845


1


Statistics of the Condition and Products of Certain Branches of Indus- try in Massachusetts for the year ending April 1, 1845


3


American Archives, fourth series, vol. vi, 1779.


1


Laws of Ohio, vol. aliv. 1845-'46 ..


1


Laws of Michigan, 1846.


Laws of Vermont


1


Laws of Maine


3


Laws of Pennsylvania. 1846


1


Laws of New Hampshire, 1846


3


Laws of Arkansas, 1540


3


Laws of Florida, 1816


3


Laws of Illinois. 1:47


1


Laws of New Jersey. 1847


3


Laws of Michigan, 1:47


Laws of Ohio, 1847 ..


1


Laws of Delaware, 1847


Laws of Texas, 18th


1


Laws of North Carolina, 1846-'47


1


Washburn


Digest of Vermont


1


1


1


1


Reports Communicated to the Legislature of Kentucky.


1


C. Gayarre


History of Louisiana


1 1 3 1 8


Remarks on Prison and Prison Discipline in the United States Peninsular War and Atlas ..


1


Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies Reports


5


Do


8


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Transactions of the State librarian, &c .- Continued. BOOKS SENT BY OTHER STATES, &c .- Continued.


Authors' names.


Works.


Number of volumes.


Laws of New Hampshire, 1847


Laws of Iowa, 1847


Laws of Connecticut, 1847


Laws of Indiana. 1847


Laws of Massachusetts, 1847.


Laws of Missouri, 1847


Laws of Congress, 1846, Ist Session, 39th Legislature


150 154 3


Griswold


Ohio Reports, vol. xiv


1


House Journal, 1st Session 29th Congress, 1845-'46.


3


Washburn


Vermont's Reports, vol. ii


1


Gillman ..


Illinois Reports, 1846


1


Stringfellows


Missouri Reports, 1846.


1


2


Resolutions and Private Acts of Connecticut, 1846


5 1


1


Report of the Bank Commissioners to the General Assembly, Connec- ticut, 1846


3


T. Toucey.


Message to the Legislature of Connecticut. May Session, 1846.


3 3


Statistics of the Condition of Certain Branches of Industry in Connec- ticut for the year ending October 1, 1845 .


3 wo 3


Journal of the Senate of Connecticut. 1846 ..


3


Annual Report of the Controllers of the Public Schools of the City and County of Philadelphia. for the year ending Jime 30, 1845


The 19th Annual Report of the House of Refuge of Philadelphia, with an appendix, 1847


Richardson


Reports of South Carolina, vol. ii.


Geological Map of Massachusetts ..


Resolutions and Private Acts of Connectient, 1847 .


Report of Cases argued in the Supreme Court of Florida for 1847, vol. i, No. 11 ..


Spencer's


Reports of New Jersey, vol. i, part 3, from 1844 to 1845


C. Gilman Report of Cases argued in the Supreme Court of Illinois, 1847, 3d vol. . Minutes of the Votes and Proceedings of the 71st General Assembly of New Jersey, 1847


S. Green


Revised Statutes of Michigan, 1846


J. Shepley


Reports of Maine, vol. XXV


Blackford


Reports of Indiana, vol. vii .


Reports of Alabama, new series, vols. ix and x


T. Metcalf


Reports of Massachusetts, vol. ix


BOOKS SENT BY OTHER STATES'AND PRESENTED TO THE STATE LIBRARY, 1848.


Humphrey


Reports, vol. vi. Tennessee


1


Tredell's


Equity Cases, North Carolina, Reports of, vol. vii ..


1


Richardson


Reports of South Carolina, vol. iii


House Journals of Congress, 2d Session 29th Congress, 1846-'47


2 3 1


Smedes and Marshall


Reports of Mississippi, vols. ix and x.


2 1


Laws of New York, 70th Session, vol. i.


3 3


Morris


Iowa Reports, vol. 1. 1:47


1


Acts and Resolves of Maine, 1847


1


Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Institu- tion for the Deaf and Dunth for 1517 ..


1


Twentieth Annual Report of the House of Refuge of Philadelphia, 1848. Acts and Resolves of Vermont


1


Journal of the Proceedings of the Second Senate of New Jersey, 1846 .. Minutes of the Votes and Proceedings of the 70th General Assembly of New Jersey, 1816 ..


1


Kelly.


Reports, Supreme Court of Georgia, 1-17, Ist and 2d vols.


2


9


Richardson Equity Reports, vol. ii, South Carolina


-


11213 131111122 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1


Reports of Arkansas, vol. i. 1846


Reports of Arkansas, vol. ii. 1847


1


Messages and documents of the State of Virginia for the year 1847


Laws of New York, 70th Session, vol. ii


323233 2 3 3


Laws of Congress, 1847, 2d Session. 39th Legislature.


Laws of Massachusetts, 1847.


Report of the Trees and Shrubs growing naturally in the Forests of Massachusetts ...


1


Alabama Reports, vol. vii and viii, new series, 1846


Reports of the Commissioners of the School Fund. Connecticut, 1846 .. Report of the Quartermaster-General, May Session, 1846, Connecticut .. Message of the Governor of Connecticut in relation to the War with Mexico .


3


Report of the Directors of the Connecticut State Prison, 1846


Journal of the House of Representatives of Connecticut, May Session, 1846.


New Hampshire Reports, 2d series, vol. i


1


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Transactions of the State librarian, S.c .- Continued. BOOKS SENT BY OTHER STATES, &C .- Continued.


Authors' names.


Works.


Number of volumes.


Stern


History of Georgia, vol. i ..


1


Cobb


Analysis and Forms of Georgia, and State Papers.


1


Strobhart


Law Report, South Carolina, Ist.


2 2


Monroe


Reports, vol. vii .


1


Do.


Reports, 1847-'48


1


Griswold


Ohio Reports, 16th, 1848


2 1


Laws of Ohio, vol. xvi, 1847- 48


1


Journal of Senate and House of Representatives, Iowa.


2


Iowa Laws.


1


First Report of the Commissioners on Practice and Pleadings, State of New York ..


Laws of Pennsylvania, 1848




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