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Colophon: Portsmouth, New-Hampshire : Printed by Daniel and Robert Fowle, 1766 ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Appended: Temporary acts and laws . pass'd October 16th, 1759. Portsmouth, 1761 [1887]

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Contents.--An act to provide against infectious diseases. Passed 30th March, 1801.--Extracts from an act to invest the mayor, aldermen and commonalty of the City of New-York, with adequate powers in relation to certain objects of importance to the police and health of the said city. Passed April 2d, 1803.--An act supplementary to an act, entitled "An act to provide against infectious and pestilential diseases." Passed February 28th, 1804.--An act relative to the public health, in the City of New-York. Passed 9th March, 1805.--A law for the establishment of a Board of Health [ordained by the Common Council of the City of New York, in accordance with the preceding legislative act of 1805]--Index.--Members of the Board of Health. 1805. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Manuscripts of the New York Council Minutes from 1674 to 1775, during British colonial rule. Accompanying each manuscript volume is a typescript calendar taken from the Calendar of Council Minutes, 1668-1783, from the Calendar of Historical Manuscripts. As noted in the Calendar of Council Minutes, 1668-1783 (New York State Library) (1902), the legislative, judicial and executive functions were all exercised by the Council at the beginning of British rule. Not until 1691 did the Council become a legislative body and coordinate with the New York Assembly

"By a late vote of the Legislature, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court is authorized to cause to be published all the publick acts, passed at each session, together with such of the ancient laws as he may judge proper . When the numbers successively published at the end of each session shall be sufficient in bulk for a volume, they may be bound, the repealed laws being placed together in the appendix"--Advertisement ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cradle of Freedom puts a human face on the story of the black American struggle for equality in Alabama during the 1960s. While exceptional leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, John Lewis, and others rose up from the ranks and carved their places in history, the burden of the movement was not carried by them alone. It was fueled by the commitment and hard work of thousands of everyday people who decided that the time had come to take a stand. Cradle of Freedom is tied to the chronology of pivotal events occurring in Alabama the Montgomery b

Title-page of v.2: Laws of New-York, from the 11th Nov. 1752, to 22d May 1762. Published according to an order of the General Assembly. The second volume, with a table common to both volumes. Digested by William Livingston, and William Smith, jun. New-York: Printed by William Weyman, Printer to the Government, 1762. ; [v.1] Laws of New York from the year 1691 to 1751, inclusive -- v. 2. Laws of New York from the 11th Nov. 1752, to 22d May 1762. ; Mode of access: Internet.

New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was dissolved in 1849, provided legal and financial assistance to individual slaves seeking manumission and supported efforts to enforce laws banning the sale of slaves in New York State. Meeting minutes, commission reports, financial records, indentures, registers, and miscellaneous records of the New-York Manumission Society, dating from the year of the Societys organization in 1785 to that of its dissolution in 1849. Minutes of the Societys quarterly meetings, standing committee, and ways amd means committee concern such topics as political activities of the Society, Society finances, efforts to enact legal reforms aimed at abolishing the slave trade in New York and preventing the exportation of slaves, reports on individual cases of slaves in need of assistance in negotiating their freedom, the protection of manumitted slaves, reports and decisions concerning the Societys sponsorship and operation of the African Free School and houses of refuge for the benefit of New Yorks African American population, appointments, elections, etc. Records also include an account book, 1819-1849, kept by the treasurer of the Society; a register of manumissions of slaves in New York City, 1816 Jun. 18-1818 May 28; indentures, 1809-1829, drawn up for slaves granted the status of indentured servants with the assistance of the Society; and miscellaneous minutes and reports, including papers pertaining to the American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Some of the Societys active members were: Robert C. Cornell, W. W. Woolsey, Nehemiah Allen, Melancton Smith, William T. Slocum, Samuel Bowne, Adrian Hegeman, Willet Seaman, Thomas Burling, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, James Duane, John Murray, Jr., William Dunlap, Alexander McDougall, Noah Webster, Egbert Benson, and many others.

Includes t.p. and table of contents of the original work from which this reprint was made. ; Reprinted from: Laws of Her Majesties Colony of New-York, as they were enacted . 1691. 1710. ; Caption title. ; An act for quieting and settling the disorders that have lately happened within this province, and for establishing and securing their Majesties present Government against the like disorders for the future -- An act declaring what are the rights and priviledges of their Majesties subjects inhabiting within their province of New-York -- An act for settling, quieting and confirming unto the cities, towns, mannors and free-holders within this province, their several grants, patents and rights respectively. ; Photocopy. ; Mode of access: Internet.

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 35 x 27 cm. ; Signed: Edward Randolph Secr'. ; "Given from the Council-house in Boston this 28th day of May Anno Domini 1686." ; Woodcut seal of colony at head. ; Announcing that a President and Council had been constituted over New England, and the appointment of Joseph Dudley, governor, following revocation of the Massachusetts Bay charter. Dudley's administration ended after only seven months, in Dec. 1686, when Sir Edmund Andros became governor. The Dominion of New England was in existence only until 1689. ; This item appears at reel 698:16 as Wing M1012, and at reel 2254:7 as Wing (2nd ed.) P3635A. ; Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 35 x 27 cm. ; Signed: Edward Randolph Secr'. ; "Given from the Council-house in Boston this 28th day of May Anno Domini 1686." ; Woodcut seal of colony at head. ; Announcing that a President and Council had been constituted over New England, and the appointment of Joseph Dudley, governor, following revocation of the Massachusetts Bay charter. Dudley's administration ended after only seven months, in Dec. 1686, when Sir Edmund Andros became governor. The Dominion of New England was in existence only until 1689. ; This item appears at reel 698:16 as Wing M1012, and at reel 2254:7 as Wing (2nd ed.) P3635A. ; Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

[6] p. ; (fol.) ; Caption title. ; Two states of the caption title noted. The first has "10th of April, anno Domini 1694"; the second is corrected to "1693." ; The first state only was also issued as part of: New York (State). [Laws, etc.] The laws & acts of the General Assembly for Their Majesties province of New-York . New-York, 1694 (Evans 703). ; Imprint from colophon.

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v. 1. The constitution of the New-York Historical Society : a discourse, designed to commemorate the discovery of New-York by Henry Hudson . / by Samuel Miller. The relation of John de Verrazzano, a Florentine, of the land by him discouered in the name of His Maiestie : diuers voyages and northerne discoueries of that worthy irrecouerable discouerer Master Henry Hvdson . / by Iohn Playse . and H. Hvdson. A second voyage or employment of Master Henry Hvdson, for finding a passage to the East Indies by the north-east / written by himselfe. The third voyage of Master Henry Hvdson toward Noua Zembla . / by Robert Ivet. An abstract of the iournall of Master Henry Hvdson, for the discouerie of the North-west passage . Documents . collected from the second volume of . "Historical collections" / by Ebenezer Hazard. East-Hampton book of laws : [laws established by James, Duke of York, for the government of New-York, in the year 1664] ; Mode of access: Internet.