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THBUS Debt & Payment of Arthur St. Clair for "Employment of Business of Indian treaties," Congressional Broadside Signed by Edmu
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Randolph, Edmund (1753-1813). Seventh Governor of Virginia, second Secretary of State, and the first US Attorney General. Broadside autographed as Secretary of State, "Edm. Randolph," 8 x 13.25 in. Headed, Third Congress of the United States, the document addresses two acts, including: "An ACT further extending the time for receiving on Loan the Domestic Debt of the United States"; followed by "An ACT to Compensate Arthur St. Clair." Each "Approved - May the thirtieth 1794," and signed in print by Speaker of the House Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Vice President John Adams, and President George Washington. Evans 27858.
The first act, section 1 extends the "term for receiving on loan that part of the domestic debt of the United States," from June through the following December "on the same terms and conditions as are contained in the act intituled [sic], 'An act making provision for the debt of the United States.'" Section 2 states "That such of the creditors of the United States as have not subscribed and shall not subscribe to the said loan, shall nevertheless receive during the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, a rate per centum on the amount of such of their demands..."
The second act states, "That the accounting officers of the treasury in the settlement of the accounts of Arthur St. Clair, allow him for his expenses while going from New York to Fort Pitt, and till his return to New York," from November 1787 through February 1788. "That he be further allowed at the rate of five dollars per day, from the tenth of June [1788] to the third of May [1789], being the time he was employed in the business of Indian treaties, and till the delivery of the said treaties to the President of the United States." Furthermore, Congress awards him interest "on the balance which shall be found due to him" and credits him with "the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars advanced by him to major Hamtramck, on public account, and that major Hamtramck be chargeable therewith." This pertains to St. Clair's efforts in negotiating the Treaties of Fort Harmar in 1789, which only temporarily eased the tensions between Indians and white settlers in the Northwest Territories.
Two years later, upon the orders of President Washington, army troops led by General St. Clair left Ft. Washington on November 4, 1791 and headed north to put an end to continual attacks by the Shawnee and Miami Nations. The troops only made it as far as the Wabash River near Miamitown when ambushed by Chief Little Turtle and his warriors of the Miami Nation. Many US soldiers were slain in what was known as the worst defeat of the army by the Indian tribes.
Condition
Light horizontal folds. Diagonal tear extending from lower right corner through portion of document, running through "lp" in "Randolph," with tape repair on reverse. Some chipping, short tears along perimeter. Some light staining especially visible along lower margin, right margin.
Relined, craquelure and lines of in-painting filling old paint cracks.
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