"Whereas at the July term, A.D. 1862, fo the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, one Andrew Jones was convicted of resistingan officer of the law and sentenced to imprisonment in the district jail for the period of four months ...
Description:
Autograph proclamation, signed. Embossed Federal seal.
Speech of Mr. Sprague, of Maine: delivered in the Senate of the United States, 16th April, 1830, in
Image Count:
1
Publisher:
Printed by William F. Geddes
Subject (Geographic):
Georgia --History --1775-1865 and United States. Congress (21st, 1st session : 1829-1830). Senate
Subject (Topic):
Cherokee Indians --Government relations, Cherokee Indians --Removal, Indians of North America --Georgia --Land tenure, Indians of North America --Legal status, laws, etc., and Indians of North America --Relocation
Collection Created:
Washington [D.C.]: : Published at the Office of the National Journal, Peter Force, print., 1830
Message from the President of the United States, transmitting, in answer to a resolution of the House, correspondence and documents relating to Indian affairs in Oregon and Washington Territories, &c
Publisher:
[s.n.]
Subject (Name):
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868, United States. Army. Dept. of the Pacific (1853-1858), and United States. War Dept.
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America --North America --Pacific Coast --Government relations, Indians of North America --Oregon, and Indians of North America --Washington (State)
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations and United States. Dept. of the Interior
Subject (Topic):
Federal aid to Indians, Indian land transfers --Mexico, Indian land transfers --Texas, Indians of Mexico --Wars, Indians of North America --Texas --Government relations, Indians of North America --Wars --Texas, Kickapoo Indians --Government relations, Kickapoo Indians --Land tenure, and Kickapoo Indians --Wars
Adams, John, 1735-1826 Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Jay, John, 1745-1829 United States. Commissioners Plenipotentiary for Negotiating a Peace with Great Britain.
Call Number:
783 +Un28
Image Count:
1
Description:
Includes bound autograph portraits of Adams (14 x 21 cm.), Franklin (14 x 22 cm.), and Jay (15 x 23 cm.), each inlaid.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln)
Published / Created:
1863 October
Call Number:
WA MSS S-1811 Un3751
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
Holograph document signed on Executive Mansion letterhead in which Lincoln appoints Timothy J. Carter as a director to represent the interests of the United States on the board of the Union and Pacific Railroad Company. Lincoln cites the "Act to aid in th
Description:
Manuscript, signed.
Subject (Name):
Carter, Timothy J. fl. 1863. and Union Pacific Railroad Company
Appel, Nathan B. Brady, Peter R. Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890. Hastings, L. W. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Published / Created:
[circa 1863]
Call Number:
WA MSS S-2229 P4451
Image Count:
2
Abstract:
Manuscript petition, in an unidentified hand, to the President of the United States, requesting that he appoint residents of the territory to provisional government offices. The petitioners also ask that L. W. Hastings, a respected Arizona lawyer, be appo