Jefferson signs Acts of Congress... Rations for the forts...

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March 08, 1804

AMERICAN MERCURY, Hartford, Connecticut, March 8, 1804

* President Thomas Jefferson
* Henry Dearborn

The front page begins with over a column headed: "War Department" on securing bids to supply rations to the various forts and installations noted, signed: H. Dearborn, Secretary of War.
Pages 2 and 3 are taken up with 3 Acts of Congress, each signed in type by the President: Th. Jefferson. Also a note from Washington: "The Senate...passed the bill entitled, 'An act erecting Louisiana into two territories and making provision for the temporary government thereof."
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, nice condition.

Category: Pre-Civil War