Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

92 92 c   ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Partly-printed Document Signed, receipt for 5 United States Loan Certificates amounting to $9,500.The certificates [not present], each 8% stock dated October 1, 1801, issued by U.S. Commissioner of Loans (for MA)Thomas Perkins. 5x8 inches; trimmed at lower edge, mounted along one edge to larger sheet. [Boston], 30 November 1801 [500/750] The U.S. government issued loan certificates to generate funds to pay off previous loans as well as to defray current and previous expenses beginning with those incurred by the Revolutionary War. The 8% stocks mentioned in the present lot were likely authorized by the Act of July 16, 1798, and were intended to raise $5 million to fund military expansion “for and during the continuance of the existing differences between the United States and the French Republic” (the Quasi-War). Only one other example of a similar receipt signed by Adams was located. CONFIRMS APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR OF SECOND BANK OF U.S. 93 c   ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Letter Signed, as Secretary of State, to Manuel Eyre, Jr., confirming his appointment as a Director of the Bank of the United States and informing him that his commission has been sent to the Bank president. 1 / 2 page, 4to, with integral blank; faint marginal discoloration from prior matting, minor chipping at right edge, short closed separation at two horizontal folds (not affecting text). Philadelphia, 30 December 1819 [3,500/5,000] “The President, by and with the advice and Consent of the Senate, having appointed you a Director of the Bank of the United States, I have the honour to inform you that your Commission is this day forwarded to the President of that Bank at Philadelphia.” According to the Act to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States, passed by Congress on April 10, 1816, the U.S. president may appoint five of the 25 directors of the Bank. Manuel Eyre, Jr. (1777-1845) was a Philadelphia merchant and director of the Second Bank of the United States (first appointed in 1816) whose father, Manuel Eyre (1736-1805) was a shipbuilder and colonel in the Continental Army. “PROVISIONS, STORES,AND UTENSILS FOR AWHALINGVOYAGE” 94 c   BUCHANAN, JAMES. Partly-printed Document Signed, as President, 4-langugage ship’s papers for the Ship CharlesW. Morgan. Countersigned by Secretary of State Lewis Cass. 17x22 inches; partial separations at folds repaired at intersections recto and verso with cello tape, paper seal intact. [Washington], 4 October 1859 [700/1,000]

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