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Subject: [MSCLAIBO-L] Interesting Website - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:53:41 EDT
I recently discovered that the Library of Congress has a website where you
can do searches of the records of the Continental Congress, Constitutional
Convention, and 1st-24th Congresses: 1774-1837. This is useful for finding
private laws introduced, such as those seeking to confirm law titles for law
acquired prior to statehood. I've included a sample of one of the references
I found (from 1811):
"Mr. Poindexter presented a petition of Alexander Montgomery, attorney in
fact for the heirs of Hiram Sweayze, praying to be confirmed in their title
to one hundred and sixty-four arpens of land lying near Natchez, granted by
the Spanish Government, in the year one thousand seven hundred and
ninety-three.
Mr. Poindexter also presented petitions of Francis Stringer, J. Malone, John
Baker, John Morris, J. P. Kennedy, John Johnson, and George Brewer, original
grantees, and representatives of original grantees of land under the Spanish
Government, and of James Hynum, respectively praying the confirmations of
their titles to their several tracts of land therein described.
Mr. Poindexter also presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of the
Mississippi Territory, praying an extension of the time for the payment of
lands purchased by them of the United States.
Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the Committee on the Public
Lands.
Mr. Poindexter presented a petition of William and John Peirce, of Tensaw,
Baldwin county, in the Mississippi Territory, stating the illegal seizure,
condemnation, and sale, of an American vessel and her cargo, the property of
the petitioners, by the Spanish authorities at Mobile, and praying such
relief from Congress as the nature of the case may admit.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the Secretary of State, to
consider and report thereon to the House."
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