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STATUTES AT LARGE,

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY, AND UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF CONGRESS.

COMPRISED IN ELEVEN VOLUMES ROYAL 8vo., AS FOLLOWS.

Vols. 1-5. THE PUBLIC STATUTES AT LARGE, from the Organization of the Government to 1845.

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8. THE TREATIES WITH FOREIGN POWERS-GENERAL INDEX to the.

Eight Volumes.

9. THE STATUTES AND TREATIES from 1845 to March 3, 1851.

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11. A SYNOPTICAL INDEX to the Statutes and Treaties contained in the first Nine Volumes.

Price for the Eleven Volumes, handsomely and substantially bound in law sheep, $44, or per single volume, $4.

The earlier editions of this great work, edited by | has been passed or adopted under the Federal Consti Mr. Peters, having been found deficient in the anno-tution, so that the reader may see at a glance the whole tations and index, the publishers revised the former, law on any single subject. and cancelled Mr. Peters's index, which is now replaced by a complete one, made by George Minot, Esq., the indefatigable author of the Digest of the Massachusetts Reports. The text, pronounced imma-lated and compared with the original Rolls in the Archives of culate by act of Congress, stands without change. We give an extract from the act herewith. It is the only uniform edition ever published from the Rolls, and the only one referred to or quoted by the Supreme Court of the United States. The Synoptical Index, prepared under an order of the Senate, refers under copious titles to each Law, and every Joint, and Senate, and House Resolve, public or private, which

Extract from the Act of Congress, August 8th, 1846. "And whereas said edition of the said LAWS AND TREATIES OF THE UNITED STATES has been carefully col the Attorney-General of the United States, as duly certified the Government, under the inspection and supervision of by that officer: Therefore, be it further enacted, that said edition of the LAWS AND TREATIES OF THE UNITED clared to be competent evidence of the several public and STATES, published by LITTLE & BROWN, is hereby deprivate Acts of Congress, and of the several Treaties therein contained, in all the Courts of Law and Equity Public Offices of the United States and of the severa and Maritime Jurisdiction, and in all the Tribunals and States, without any further proof or authentication thereof.'

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