Lot n° 199

[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]. Document signé par Mathieu StClair, Clerk of the House of Representatives, et par Charles Cutts, Secretary of the Senate Washington, “House of Representatives", 30 décembre 1824 1 p. folio, quelques...

Estimation : 4000 / 6000
Adjudication : Invendu
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taches et défauts, mais en relativement bon état
DÉCRET DES DEUX CHAMBRES, SIGNÉ PAR CHACUN DE LEUR SECRÉTAIRE, PRÉPARANT L’ANNONCE DU DON À LAFAYETTE DE $200,000 ET DE 24.000 ACRES EN FLORIDE, SELON “THE RESPECTFUL REQUEST AND CONFIDENCE OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS". DECREE OF THE TWO CHAMBERS, SIGNED BY THEIR RESPECTIVE SECRETARIES, PREPARING THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DONATION TO LAFAYETTE OF $200,000 AND 24,000 ACRES IN FLORIDA, IN ACCORDANCE WITH “THE RESPECTFUL REQUEST AND CONFIDENCE OF THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS" Promulgation officielle par la Chambre des Représentants, transmise à Lafayette et attestée par le Clerk : “Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to unite with a Committee of the Senate in announcing to General Lafayette, the passage of the act concerning him, which has just been approved, and to express to him the respectful request and confidence of the Two Houses of Congress that he will add his acceptance of the testimony of public gratitude to him by this act, to the many and signal proofs which he has afforded of his esteem for the United States", le comité étant formé de M. Archer, Van Rensselaer et Markley appointed to the Committee, auxquels se joindront les Sénateurs Smith, Hayne and Bouligny This was the grant by Congress to Lafayette of $ 200.000 and a tract of 24,000 acres in Tallahassee, Florida (chosen by President Monroe), formally announced to Lafayette on 1 January 1825.
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