First Post-Civil War Legislature
Journal of the Senate, for the First Session, Fifteenth Legislature, of the State of Florida...
Notes: The record of the state senate's first legislative session after Florida had adopted a Reconstruction constitution. The governor, Harrison Reed, had been a Lincoln supporter and as a Republican governor, set out to abolish the legacy of slavery and of the South's insurrection. The first business of the legislature was to ratify the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the US Constitution. From there, every sort of law and process would have to be reinvented or re-enacted. As an indication of the turbulence of the times, Reed would be impeached twice during his four year tenure as governor, being acquitted both times.
This legislative session opened on June 8 and ended on August 6, 1868.
246 pages, with the journal and two short administration reports continuously paginated.
Edition + Condition: Contents dampstained throughout; title page (self wrapper) in fragments, laid down on paper. Finely bound in three-quarter's leather and marbled paper-covered boards. The spine has raised bands and is stamped in gilt. A truly lovely period-style binding.
Publication: Tallahassee, FL: Printed at the Office of the Tallahassee Sentinel, 1868.
Item No: #361608
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