Connecticut (Colony): Acts and Laws of his Majesty's English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America BOUND WITH Session Laws through 1753 New London, Timothy Green, 1750, sm. folio orig. contemp. calf. First Edition. Evans # 6479, # 6480, # 6653, # 6830, # 6831, # 6981. A good copy; first 25 pp. with rodent damage to lower fore-edge (no text loss); some toning and hand soiling.

An early compilation of colonial legislation that includes the five following sessional laws. It includes the original charter granted by Charles II (see Bates, CT. Statute Laws, for the publishing history). Appended to this legal treatise is a manuscript account of the constitution and early minutes of the hunt club - the Noble Society - founded in Wallingford, NJ in March 1805. The minutes record a subscription of funds (amounts marked next to members names) to purchase a pack of hounds to be kept for the use of the members. Officers were elected (they are named). Any man or men , ' ...who killed a fox or Rackoon [sic] that the hound that belongs to said Society are in suit after [?] hounds shall hold one third the value of the profits ....' Unfortunately the record ends after this entry. There is also a note on the frt.free endpaper stating that the book was to be circulated throughout the year to the homes of a number of men noted. It was apprently intended to act as legal reference for those named. There are other misc. notes.

$3750.