Acts Passed at the First Session of the Eighth Congress of the United States of America
Acts passed at the first session of the eighth Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on Monday, the seventeenth of October, in the year 1803 and of the independence of the United States, the twenty-eighth.
United States; LOUSIANA PURCHASE; Thomas Jefferson
Washington, D.C., 1804
[The Louisiana Purchase: Official Government Printing of the Louisiana purchase treaty from France, related acts, and American Indian Treaties with the Kaskaskia, Choctaw, Delaware, the Eel River, Wyandot, Pienkashaw, Kickapoo; Shawanoe, Putawatimi, and Miami Nations] Bound in publisher's blue wraps. Spine backstrip mostly perished. 225, vi pages. Scattered spotting, staining throughout. With this treaty the United States gained 828,000 sq mi; 530,000,000 acres. The new territory included the entirety of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska; parts of North Dakota, South Dakota; Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Minnesota, New Mexico; Texas; and Louisiana.