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[Franklin Imprint] · PENNSYLVANIA. Anno Regni Georgi III

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[Franklin Imprint] · PENNSYLVANIA. Anno Regni Georgi III

(FRANKLIN IMPRINT) • PENNSYLVANIA. Anno Regni Georgi III.

...At a General Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, begun and holden at Philadelphia, the Fourteenth Day of October, Anno Domini September, 1765. Pp. [429]-448.

Disbound. Faint toning, else very good.

Includes "An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Borough of Lancaster. for supporting a Nightly Watch in the Said Borough.," An Act for the more easy Recovery of Legacies," "An act for erecting a Bridge over Skippack Creek, in the County of Philadelphia," and "An Act to explain and amend 'An Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors within the Province of Pennsylvania.'

From Catalog III

Session laws of 1765 — a night watch for Lancaster, a bridge over Skippack Creek, relief of insolvent debtors — printed at the height of the Stamp Act crisis by a press whose senior partner was in London arguing the Act down. Miller locates nine copies.

Date
Philadelphia: Franklin & Hall, [1765–66]
Author / maker
Province of Pennsylvania
References
Miller 846. Evans 10122. Hildeburn 21200. Campbell 709. Miller locates 9 copies.
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