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59th United States Congress signatures
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Correspondence on the United States Mint in San Francisco
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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.
mssHM 73744-73748
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Autograph Album of United States politicians
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Autograph album containing signatures of United States Congress members, Supreme Court Justices, and Cabinet of the United States in 1874.
mssHM 79903
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United States General Land Office letter to Senator Eugene Casserly
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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.
mssHM 72999
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In the Senate of the United States
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Hearings before the United States House Select Committee To Investigate the Alleged Credit Mobilier Bribery.
606342g no. 519.
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John Adams notification of Thomas Jefferson's election as vice president of the United States :
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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.
mssHM 9466
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United States Military Academy circular
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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.
mssHM 84316-84317