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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting the Information Required By a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 19th Inst. In Relation to a Survey of the Lands Lying South of the 31st Degree of Latitude ..

Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting the Information Required By a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 19th Inst. In Relation to a Survey of the Lands Lying South of the 31st Degree of Latitude ..

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Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting the Information Required By a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 19th Inst. In Relation to a Survey of the Lands Lying South of the 31st Degree of Latitude ..

by Rush, Richard; United States. Congress. House of Representatives. Treasury Department

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Printed By Gales & Seaton, 1826. First Edition. Unknown. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Soiling, rubbing, browning and/or foxing throughout (chiefly to upper wrapper at spine edge); small holes at spine edges (disbound); slight wear and browning to foredges; else a fairly well-preserved document. Upper wrapper title; title continued: In the States of Mississippi and Louisiana (19th Congress, Second Session: Document Number 24). At head of title: Survey of Lands in Mississippi and Louisiana, South of the 31st Degree of Latitude. Includes communications from George Graham (commissioner of the General Land Office) and surveyor George Davis in addition to Secretary Rush's introductory letter. Dated December 26, 1826 on upper wrapper ('Read, and referred to the Committee on the Public Lands'; upper wrapper). Sold 'as is'. Rush (1780-1859), American lawyer, statesman and diplomat, son of physician Benjamin Rush and brother of physician James Rush; graduate of the College of New Jersey (i.e. Princeton, 1798); attorney general of Pennsylvania (1811); US Attorney General (1814); Secretary of State (1817); Secretary of the Treasury (1825); US minister to France (1847-49); notable for his editing of the 1815 'Laws of the United States', and his securing the Smithson bequest (1836-38) for the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Arundel Books of Seattle US (US)
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Title
Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting the Information Required By a Resolution of the House of Representatives, of the 19th Inst. In Relation to a Survey of the Lands Lying South of the 31st Degree of Latitude ..
Author
Rush, Richard; United States. Congress. House of Representatives. Treasury Department
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Unknown
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Used - Good
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First Edition
Publisher
Printed By Gales & Seaton
Date Published
1826
Keywords
General Americana United States History 19th Century Land Survey Southern States Mississippi Louisiana Rush, Richard Secretary Treasury Congress House of Representatives QX91, , , , , , ,

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