Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
DS as secretary of state, “Th: Jefferson,” one page, 9.5 x 13.5, February 9, 1791. An Act of the first Congress at the third session giving its approval for the state of Maryland to collect the duty taxes on ships in Baltimore Harbor for the improvement of that harbor. The document titled “An Act Declaring the Consent of Congress to a Certain Act of the State of Maryland,” reads in part: “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the consent of Congress be, and is hereby granted and declared to the operation of an act of the General Assemble of Maryland…intituled ‘An act to empower the wardens of the port of Baltimore to levy and collect the duty therin mention,’ until the tenth day of January next, and from thence until the end of the then next session of Congress, and no longer.” Signed at the conclusion by Jefferson, and also signed in type by House Speaker Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Vice President John Adams, and President George Washington. Three horizontal folds, some mild edge toning and wear from previous display, and a couple of stray pencil marks, otherwise fine, bright condition.
By the 21st century, sessions of the now-111th Congress had become familiar grounds for voters and politicians alike. In 1791, it was still virgin territory. The first Congress’ third session was nearing its end on the February day this document was authorized, having opened the session on December 6, 1790 and preparing to conclude on March 3, 1791. Among the Congressional business addressed by Washington, Adams and Muhlenberg was this matter pertaining to Maryland, permitting port officials in the Mid-Atlantic state “to levy and collect the duty...until the tenth day of January next, and from thence until the end of the then next session of Congress, and no longer.” It was also during this session that the First Bank of the United States was established—a move that February that upset Jefferson—and passage of the the Whiskey Act in March, which triggered the Whiskey Rebellion. Early democracy at work, signed by one of the nation’s forefathers.
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