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UNITED STATES] Nine volumes of the Acts of Congress, 1789-1797 . Comprising: [FIRST CONGRESS]. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Congress of the United States of America ... Second Session ... Third Session. Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine, 1791. Three volumes. 157 pp., [1]; 414 pp.; 120 pp., [58]. Evans 29674; [SECOND CONGRESS]. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Second Congress of the United States of America ... Second Session. Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine, [1792]. Two volumes. 175 pp. iii; 291 pp. [11], index. Evans 24868; [THIRD CONGRESS]. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Third Congress of the United States of America ... Second Session. Philadelphia: Childs & Swaine, 1794; Francis Childs, 1795. Two volumes, separately issued. 144 pp., [iii]; 146-260 pp., iv, index. Evans 27827 & 29677; [FOURTH CONGRESS]. Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fourth Congress of the United States of America ... Second Session. Philadelphia: Francis Childs, 1796. Two volumes. 137 pp., [1], 46, iv; [3], 146-305, index. Evans 31331. Together 9 volumes in various library cloth bindings with red and black lettering labels. Sizes vary, tallest 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches (21 x 11.5 cm). Variously stamped, some stains and spotting, generally clean within. The acts of the first Congress present here were reprinted in Philadelphia after the Federal Government had moved there in 1791 and, as with the previous issues, include the Constitution as well as the amendments that would become the Bill of Rights. These first four congresses were all held during the presidency of George Washington. C The New York City Bar Association