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Lot 185
[GEORGIA - YAZOO LAND FRAUD] State of Facts Shewing the Right of Certain Companies to the Lands Lately Purchased by Them from the State of Georgia.
United States: 1795. First edition. Modern brown cloth, gilt spine label. 8 x 4 3/4 inches (20 x 12 cm); 64 pp. Spotting and toning, early annotations (underlining and marginal notations) in ink.
A defense by the perpetrators of the 1795 Yazoo land scandal, in which the Governor of Georgia sold lands in western Georgia very cheaply to speculators who had bribed state officials. Once the scandal erupted, state reformers overturned the sales, but that ruling was again overturned by the Supreme Court in a landmark case as it was one of the first times the Supreme Court had overturned a state law. Georgia eventually ceded all of these lands and they are now part of Alabama and Mississippi. Evans 28745; Howes G126 ("aa"); Sabin 27112; Streeter 1158.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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