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Five laws of the United States and a Proclamation...
Five laws of the United States and a Proclamation...
Item # 709843
May 25, 1816
NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER, Baltimore, May 25, 1816 Inside has over a full page taken up with five "Laws of the United States", most dealing with military affairs, and each signed in type by the President, James Madison, and H. Clay, Speaker of the House. Also: "A Proclamation by the President of the United States" concerning an act for granting bounty land to Canadian volunteers, also signed in type by the President: James Madison.
Sixteen pages, 6 by 9 inches, minor foxing, nice condition.
background: This issue of Niles’ Weekly Register serves as a pristine primary source capturing the United States in its post-War of 1812 recovery phase, specifically highlighting the legislative transition from wartime mobilization to frontier expansion. The inclusion of the bounty land proclamation for Canadian volunteers is particularly significant; it documents a rare moment of American reciprocity for the "Canadian Volunteers" who risked their lives—and forfeited their own properties—to fight for the U.S. against the British Crown. With the signatures of James Madison and Henry Clay appearing together, the document encapsulates a pivotal political era where the "Father of the Constitution" and the "Great Compromiser" were actively codifying the laws of a growing nation. Because Hezekiah Niles designed these 16-page registers to be preserved in annual volumes rather than discarded like daily broadsheets, finding a standalone copy in great condition provides a tactile connection to the bureaucratic birth of the American West.
As noted in Wikipedia, this title: "...(was) one of the most widely-circulated magazines in the United States...Devoted primarily to politics...considered an important source for the history of the period."
Category: Pre-Civil War
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