Acts Passed at the First and Second Session of the Eleventh Congress of the United States.

United States Congress; James Madison

United States Congress, 1809.

24, ii, [31]-241, iv pp. Both parts bound in one. Rebound in modern green cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Lacking title page, half title present. Scattering foxing.

Contains an Act laying out a road from Cumberland MD to Ohio (Old National Pike). Contains a number of Indian treaties; notably with the Kickapoo, Wea, Miami, Eel, Delaware, Putawatimie, and Osage tribes.  Foreign affairs concerns US relations with the Barbary pirates, the embargo against France and the UK and the coming conflict with Great Britain. Also a proposed Constitutional Amendment: Titles of Nobility Amendment: Proposed to strip United States citizenship from any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from a foreign country. Early American imprints., Second series ; no. 18808.