1825 MISSOURI SLAVE LAWS &c. First Edition of Laws of Missouri with Early Settler Provenance.

The only subject to receive more entries in the indices than slavery is that Department of Treasury. It includes regulations on the gifting of a slave, on the treatment of formerly enslaved persons traveling without a certificate [not good], apprehending and securing runaways [runaways get a whole separate section], penalty to ferrymen giving passage to slaves without certificate, penalty for harboring slaves, slaves and the prohibition against weapons, slaves forbidden to administer medicine, on the requirement of apprehending fugitive [or suspected] slaves, stealing slaves, how slaves disobeying or assaulting masters or mistresses to be punished, punishment of insurrection and rebellion among slaves, how runaways identified, expenses of slaves dying in gaol, rewards for apprehending slaves, on the punishment of slave riots, punishment for killing or dismembering a slave, on the prohibition against educating negroes and mulattoes, on the prohibition against negroes or mulattoes as witnesses at trial, etc. etc. 

David William Jones [1790-1862(?)] was born in Kentucky, a large contingent of the family emigrating to Missouri sometime around 1820.

According to The History of Cooper County [p.222] "David Jones settled at Pisgah prior to 1820, since his vote was recorded in that year. He, with Archibald Kavanaugh , was elected to the State Legislature in 1830 , 1832 , 1834 and in 1836 he was elected State Senator, and re-elected in 1848. Even earlier, he was listed as a Territory Representative for Howard County in 1818.

Also signed by Dr. James P[ryor]Harrison [1811-1877], also an influential early Missourian, likely acquired from the Jones family after David's death. 

[Missouri, Missouri Compromise, Slavery] Laws of the State of Missouri; Revised and Digested by Authority of the Genera Assembly. Vol. I. Published According to an Act of the General Assembly, Passed 21st February, 1825. St. Louis. Printed by E. Charless, for the State. 1825. 486pp.

[Bound with]

[Missouri, Missouri Compromise, Slavery] Laws for the State of Missouri; Revised and Digested by Authority of the General Assembly. Vol II. Published According to an Act of the General Assembly, Passed 11th February, 1825. St. Louis. Printed by E. Charless, for the State. 1825. vii + 487-974pp.

Good - in original, heavily rubbed and attractively patinated period calf. Generally solid, blank ffep and rfep's lacking. Textually complete, including both titles, indices, and errata. Tide marks to lower edge throughout, extending up the page more significantly for the last few signatures.