Report of the trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, before the High Court of Impeachment, composed of the Senate of the United States, for charges exhibited against him by the House of Representatives, in the name of themselves, and of all the people of the United States, for high crimes & misdemeanors, supposed to have been by him committed; : with the necessary documents and official papers, from his impeachment to final acquital - Chase, Samuel (Printed for Samuel Butler and George Keatinge, 1805)
"Appendix. Impeachment of the Hon. Samuel Chase, with the articles exhibited against him by the House of Representatives: also his answer and pleas, exhibits, and the replication of the House of Representatives, &c. &c. Baltimore: Printed for Samuel Butler and George Keatinge. 1805."--68 p., 4th count. Another edition (not in Shaw & Shoemaker) has title: Impeachment of Samuel Chase, Esq. one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States ... with his Answer and pleas. Likewise the Replication of the House of Representatives. Baltimore: Printed for Keatinge's book store. 1805. - "Directions to the binder," p. [6], 1st count, includes instruction to "be careful in collating to place a cancel leaf at page 49; also at page 172. - Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law, 14471. - Copyright Mar. 14, 1805 by Samuel Butler and George Keatinge. - Errors in paging: p. 170, 213*, 3rd count, misnumbered 172, 212*; p. 59-64, 4th count, misnumbered 62, [1], 65-68. - Judge Chase was impeached for alleged misdemeanors in the political trials of John Fries and James Callender for treason and seditious libel under the Alien and Sedition Acts, and his trial held Jan. 2-Mar. 1, 1805. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 8173. - Text printed in two columns