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Item # 703607

September 16, 1789

MASSACHUSETTS CENTINEL, Boston, Sept. 16, 1789  The entire front page & most of page 2 are taken up with the "Act Registering & Clearing Vessels Regulating the Coasting Trade...", signed in script type: George Washington.
Nice page 2 discussion in Congress on proposed sites for the new  federal government, and on the salaries for various officers.
The back page has the "Act for Settling the Accounts between the United States & Individual States" signed by the President in script: George Washington.
Four pages, close-trimmed at the bottom of the front page only shaves about 8 words, slightly irregular at the spine, otherwise good.

Item from our most recent catalog - #358, released for September, 2025

Category: The 1600's and 1700's