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.
"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successively published at the end of each session shall be sufficient in bulk for a volume, they may be bound, the repealed laws being placed together in the appendix"--Advertisement ; Mode of access: Internet.
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.
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.
Gordon & Wallach of New York write to Alden Partridge regarding assistance in collecting a debt due them from James White. ; Letter dated 29 February 1814; however, 1814 was not a leap year. Scan includes note attached to original letter.
1 sheet ([2] p.) ; 39 x 32 cm. ; At end: State of New-Hampshire. In Convention, June 5th, 1779. Voted, that the foregoing bill of rights, and plan of government, be printed, and dispersed throughout this state . John Langdon, president, p.t. E. Thompson, secretary. ; When submitted to the general populace, the plan was voted down. ; Imprint from colophon.
A collection of satirical pieces regarding Henry Hobart and Sir Thomas Beevort, candidates for city elections, appearing between July 15 and Sept. 12, 1786. ; Caption title. ; Mode of access: Internet.
