Laws and Resolutions of the Board of Levee Commissioners for the District Composed of the Parishes of Carroll and Madison. September, 1858
Lake Providence, La. Printed at the Office of the Herald, 1858. 40pp. Original plain green wrappers. Minor wear, two binding holes punched through inner margin and soft vertical fold throughout. Moderate tanning and occasional foxing to text, signed on page 32 by the secretary of the commission, with his embossed seal. Untrimmed. Very good. Item #5156
A very rare antebellum Louisiana imprint discussing the creation and maintenance of levees along the Mississippi River in the northeastern part of the state, and printed there in 1858. Lake Providence is located on the Mississippi River in the northeast corner of Louisiana, about fifty miles north of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The present work was printed by the city's contemporary newspaper of record, the Lake Providence Herald. The work includes the founding documents of the Levee District covering the parishes of Carroll, Madison, and Catahoula, printing the district's laws and legislative resolutions, by-laws governing the commissioners' work in the district, the rules of order for their meetings, the "Boundaries of Wards" for the seventeen wards within the state, and an example contract for the commissioners, engineers, and contractors working on the levees. The work is signed at the conclusion of the by-laws by secretary Charles Robertson Purdy (1833-1863), who later served as captain of the Lake Providence Cadets of the 4th Louisiana Regiment in the Civil War, and died in the Siege of Port Hudson. OCLC reports just a single copy, at Historic New Orleans.
Price: $2,250.00