American State Papers POST OFFICE 1790-1833 Gales Seaton 1834 United States Mail

Description: Offered: Scarce Folio AMERICAN STATE PAPERS DOCUMENTS Legislative and Executive of the Congress of the United States From the FirstSession of the First to the Second Session of the Twenty-Second Congress, Inclusive: Commencing March 4, 1789, And Ending March 2, 1833 Selected and Edited , Under Authority of Congress Washington, Published by Gales and Seaton 1834 CLASS VII POST OFFICE. Folio contemporary 3/4 leather with marbled covers and marbled endpapers title on spine American State Papers Post Office, half title, Title ,iii,361 pp. viii; front and rear boards detached but present., old library otherwise, Complete. *******During the early Congresses, there was no general provision of law to establish guidelines for printing congressional documents. Printing was done unsystematically, with the majority of congressional records located solely in the archives of the two Houses. The burning of the Capitol by the British in 1814 exposed the vulnerability of these documents and heightened the Congress's interest in publishing the records in an organized and accessible form. In 1817 Congress began distributing the United States Congressional Serial Set. This set of volumes contained reports and documents created by or presented to Congress that it felt needed wider circulation. The U.S. Serial Set was not retroactive and therefore did not contain the records for the first 14 Congresses. Recognizing the importance of preserving and making available to the public the records from the formative years of the country, Congress acted on a proposal by the printers Gales & Seaton and made provision in the following act of March 2, 1831, for that firm to publish executive and legislative writings from the first 13 Congresses: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the clerk of the House of Representatives hereby is authorized and directed to subscribe for 750 copies of the compilation of the Congressional documents proposed to be made by Gales & Seaton: Provided, That the documents shall be selected under the direction of the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House: And Provided also, That the price paid for the printing of copies shall be at the rate not exceeding that of the price paid to the printer of Congress for printing the documents of the two Houses. As a result of the above act (and the subsequent joint resolution of March 2, 1833 and act of June 12, 1858), between 1832 and 1861, Gales & Seaton published 38 volumes. The volumes contain documents covering the years 1789–1838, although not every class has documents from the entire period. The collection is titled the American State Papers and is organized into the following 10 classes or series: Foreign Relations Indian Affairs Finances Commerce and Navigation Military Affairs Naval Affairs Post Office Department. (VII) Offered here Public Lands Claims Miscellaneous

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