First Edition. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1852–53, a momentous year for Native Americans living in the state. Each journal—the message of Governor Thomas Brown to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1854–55. Each journal—the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of "Documents Accompanying the Governor's Message." House Journal pagination: 340.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume, collecting the Florida House and Senate proceedings for 1856–57. Each journal—the message of Governor James E. Broome to the legislature and a daily report of the activities of the legislative bodies—are followed by the same appendix of reports, perhaps of most interest is the extended.....

First Edition. With most of the legislature's time taken up with questions of infrastructure, particularly the Florida railroad, Governor Madision S. Perry uses his annual address to warn of coming conflict with the north and to encourage the spread of slavery. This is a nicely-bound volume of the daily legislative.....

First Edition. A nicely-bound volume of the daily log of this legislative session in the Florida House, which ran from November 18, 1861 to December 17, 1861. At the opening of the session, the new governor, John Milton, sent a long message, mostly concerned with Secession and the Civil War.....

First Edition. The record of the state assembly's first legislative session after Florida had adopted a Reconstruction constitution. "In November, 1860, the constitutional rights of the people of Florida were subverted and its civil government was overthrown. Since then the State has been without a constitutional government and subject to military.....

First Edition. The record of the state assembly's second legislative session after Florida had adopted a Reconstruction constitution. In his message to the legislature, the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, offers encouraging words about the post-Civil War progress being made: "The newly enfranchised citizen of color sits side by side with.....

First Edition. A considerable portion of this year's session was consumed by the impeachment of the Republican governor, Harrison Reed, led by members of his own party. He was accused of fraud connected to the issuance of railroad bonds. While the Assembly (formerly the House of Representatives, prior to the.....