Revised Code of Mississippi

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Hardcover book covered in leather with tooling on front edges of cover which is otherwise blank. Spine has bands of red and black with gold lettering: [REVISED CODE / OF / MISSISSIPPI / 1871]. On the inside cover is a note handwritten in graphite: [Scarce compilation of laws by the / Reconstruction government, which / controlled the state until 1875.] The title page reads [THE / REVISED CODE / OF THE / STATUTE LAWS / OF THE / STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. / AS ADOPTED AT JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 1871, AND PUBLISHED BY / AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE. / JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI: / ALCORN & FISHER, STATE PRINTERS. / 1871]. The volume begins with a preface by: [AMOS R. JOHNSTON, / Commissioner / JACKSON, Oct. 1, 1871]. 788 pages.

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