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Connecticut Prepares for New Federal Constitution, Establishes Plan to Elect Senators and Representatives by [CONNECTICUT]. GEORGE WYLLYS

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Title: Connecticut Prepares for New Federal Constitution, Establishes Plan to Elect Senators and Representatives
Author: [CONNECTICUT]. GEORGE WYLLYS
Seller: Seth Kaller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Official printing of the fourteen Acts passed by the Connecticut Assembly in January 1789, includes "An Act for regulating the Election of Senators and Representatives, for this State, in the Congress of the United States." [CONNECTICUT]. GEORGE WYLLYS. Printed Document Signed. Acts and Laws, Made and passed by the General Court, or Assembly of the State of Connecticut, in America: holden at New-Haven, (by Adjournment) on the first Thursday of January, Anno Dom. 1789. New Haven: Thomas and Samuel Green, 1789. Signed on first page, and docketed by Wyllys on final page, "Public Acts / Assembly / Jan'y 1789." 8 pp., 7 ⅜ x 12 ½ in.Before the first federal United States Congress could convene, the states had to elect senators and representatives. This Act of the Connecticut Assembly empowered the legislature to elect two United States senators. If the legislature was not in session, the governor and council could fill the vacancy until the next meeting of the legislature. The freemen of each of the towns were to nominate twelve men, and the twelve persons with the greatest number of votes would stand for election. The five who received the most votes would represent Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives. Seven states decided to elect representatives by district. Delaware and Rhode Island had only one representative each, and Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania chose to elect delegates at-large. The Connecticut Assembly selected Oliver Ellsworth and William S. Johnson, both signers of the Constitution, as the state's first U.S. Senators. Voters elected Benjamin Huntington, Roger Sherman, Jonathan Sturges, Jonathan Trumbull Jr., and Jeremiah Wadsworth as Connecticut's first representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Four of them had served in the Continental Congresses, and Sherman had also signed the U.S. Constitution. Other acts passed by the Connecticut legislature at this session include those establishing the form of oaths of office, suspending all suits brought in favor of citizens of Rhode Island (in retaliation for a similar statute passed by RI in March 1787), revising the times and places for holding courts, encouraging woolen manufactures, and revising the manner of settling estates. Additional laws governed the actions of treasurers and town clerks, incorporated a part of Hartford, and made minor modifications to the scheduling of elections and calling of jurors. The legislature also prevented anyone from holding the office of U.S. Senator or Representative from also serving as a Judge of Connecticut's Superior Court at the same time. While most of the former colonies had adopted new state constitutions by 1786, Connecticut continued to be governed by its 1662 charter from King Charles II, so far as it was consistent with independence. Connecticut did not adopt a state constitution until 1818. Pagination of the Acts and Laws of the State of Connecticut, in America began with those published in 1784 (through page 265), and subsequent laws passed in May 1784 (267-307), October 1784 (309-15), May 1785 (317-28), October 1785 (329-36), May 1786 (337-46), October 1786 (347-50), May 1787 (351-54), October 1787 (355-58), May 1788 (359-66), October 1788 (367-70), and then this set for January 1789 (371-78), followed by May 1789 (379-82). George Wyllys (1710-1796) was the great grandson of George Wyllys (1590-1645) who had served as colonial governor of Connecticut in 1642-1643. The younger Wyllys graduated from Yale College in 1729, and held several public offices, including town clerk of Hartford (1732-1796) and officer in the militia. He succeeded his father as Secretary of the colony and later the state of Connecticut, serving for 61 years (1735-1795). Evans 21748, calling this "the official issue." Condition Stitched as issued. Four leaves folded and numbered 371-378, uncut.

Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors by SISKIND, Aaron; Carl CHIARENZA

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Title: Aaron Siskind: Pleasures and Terrors
Author: SISKIND, Aaron; Carl CHIARENZA
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9780821215227
Condition: A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine faded as usual, and with a few small chips at edges.
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1982. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket, the spine faded as usual, and with a few small chips at edges.. 11.25 x 9.75 inches. 282 pages. With a foreword by James L. Enyeart and with a lengthy text by Carl Chiarenza. Includes 74 duotones and 198 halftones. Original brown cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, signed by Siskind on the printed presentation page, designating copies signed for The Presidents Club of the University of Arizona Foundation.

The Reviewers Reviewed, or British Falsehoods Detected by American Truths by ANONYMOUS

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Title: The Reviewers Reviewed, or British Falsehoods Detected by American Truths
Author: ANONYMOUS
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New-York: R. M'Dermut & D.D. Arden, 1815. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); removed; 72pp. Stock a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Anonymous polemical against the "London Quarterly Review" and the English people in general, covering that country's labor, educational, and moral conditions. For example, "The general system of English boarding school education tends much to the formation of their national character. Surly and morose--proud in prosperity--mean and abject in adversity, haughty and vindictive--forgetting right, when they feel power--affecting to despise the whole human race..." (p. 31). HOWES R227; SABIN 70283; AMERICAN IMPRINTS 35772.

Gardening in California, Landscape and Flower by McLAREN, John, Superintendent of Golden Gate Park

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Title: Gardening in California, Landscape and Flower
Author: McLAREN, John, Superintendent of Golden Gate Park
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Description: San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1914. Cloth. Very good. 8vo; xiii, 399pp; gilt-stamped olive green cloth over board, title and decoration to front; b&w halftone photographic illustrations throughout, line drawn garden designs; light shelf cuffing to edges, glue burn to free endpapers; very good. Second issue of this expansive book on California gardening and plants. Full-page halftone photographic illustrations of gardens, illustrations of plants within texts and line drawings of gardens with planting lists.

The French Army in Politics, 1945-1962 by AMBLER, John Steward

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Title: The French Army in Politics, 1945-1962
Author: AMBLER, John Steward
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: fine
Description: Ohio State University, 1966. hardcover. fine. x +427 pages, 8vo, green cloth. Ohio State University Press, (1966). A fine copy lacking dust wrapper. Publication of the Mershon Center for Education in National Security

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