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Confirming the Louisiana Purchase...
Confirming the Louisiana Purchase...
Item # 685041
July 02, 1803
NEW YORK HERALD, July 2, 1803
* Louisiana Purchase confirmation w/ France
The front page has: "TWO MILLIONS!!! An Act Making Further Provision for the Expenses attending the intercourse Between the U.S. and Foreign Nations" which is signed in type by he President: Th. Jefferson.
Inside has no fewer than two reports concerning confirmation of the Louisiana Purchase from France with 3 dispatches datelined from Paris including: "Important" "We have now the moral certainty of being paid in the U.S. what France owes rte America...Government cedes Louisiana for a certain sum...The thing is fixed; five months are given for the ratification..." with more. And then also from Paris: "I enclose you a memorial which Mr. Livingston, our minister here, presented to the French Government, which was really the primary cause of the cession of Louisiana to the United States..." with more.
Four pages, nice condition.
Category: Pre-Civil War
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