Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th Day of April, in the Year of our Lord 1702, to the 14th Day of January, 1776.

Burlington: Printed by Isaac Collins, Printer to the King, for the Province of New-Jersey, 1776 Full title: Acts of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey, from the Surrender of the Government to Queen Anne, on the 17th Day of April, in the Year of our Lord 1702, to the 14th Day of January, 1776. To Which is Annexed, the Ordinance for regulating and establishing the Fees of the Court of Chancery of the said Province. With Three Alphabetical Tables, and an Index. First edition. Folio. 13¼x9¼ inches. Pp. [2], viii, 493, 6 (Index), 6 (Ordinance Chancery Fees), 4 (A Table for the Publick Acts in Force), 4 (A Table of the Publick Acts Disallowed, Expired, Obsolete and Repealed), 3 (A Table of the Private Acts), 15 (Index to the Principal Matters). Original full calf, leather spine label, well-rubbed and scuffed, top edges and corners worn, spine worn (especially at ends), rear hinge breaking. Lacking front endpaper, contemporary names to title page, a few contemporary text notations, text leaves toned or lightly soiled, primarily at fore-edges. A very good copy, collated complete with all indexes and appendices. With "For the use of the overseers of the poor of Chesterfield" blind stamped onto front cover. Includes occasional contemporary manuscript corrections to text (as in all copies). This was the last compilation of New Jersey's colonial-era laws, commonly referred to as Allinson's Laws, and provides a portrait of life in New Jersey from 1702 to the landmark year, 1776. It addresses such topics as slaves, taverns, firearms and the regulation of ammunition, gambling and horse races, jails, constables, roads, conservation, corruption, marriage, the militia and taxes. It also includes acts dividing and forming counties. This work is a wonderful compendium of colonial laws right up to the colonies' declaration of independence from England. The printer, Isaac Collins, was known for the excellence of his work. He achieved additional renown in 1777 as the printer of The New Jersey Gazette, the first regularly published weekly newspaper in the state. All copies of these laws have manuscript corrections that were probably executed in Collins' shop. Due to shortages, the quality of the paper varied considerably from copy to copy. [Evans: 14911; Sabin: 53046]. .