Collection of signatures from the 59th United States Congress, 1905-1907, on a poster board. Joseph Gurney Cannon, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, is the first signature. There are 153 spaces; however, there are only 104 signatures. Note: There is an additional copy.
Letters, telegraphs, and receipts relating to the operations of the United States Mint at San Francisco. The items mainly focus on shipping bullion from Philadelphia to San Francisco and accounting discrepancies between the Treasury Department and the San Francisco Mint. Includes correspondence from United States Treasurers Samuel Casey and James Guthrie.
Letter from the United States Department of the Interior, General Land Office, to Senator Eugene Casserly regarding Casserly's proposed Senate Resolution to establish a "law distributing the public lands of the United States in California into different classes with a view to their more speedy settlement and disposition." The Land Office replies with reasons why this plan would be untenable, including the difficulties of defining land value, re-distributing already settled land, the additional surveying costs, and the problem of vandalism over supposed gold and silver deposits.
Copy of certification by the House of Representatives and Senate of the election of Thomas Jefferson as vice president of the United States, signed by Adams. Attested "true copy" by the chief clerk of the Department of State, George Taylor.
Circular from the United States Military Academy to Philip St. George Cocke regarding facts about his military history and other pertinent, personal information, and copy of a circular from 1878. Both were written by George W. Cullum, Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army.
