Treasury Notes for Food Famine Relief Authorized
An 1813 act authorizes the President to issue Treasury Notes for food relief up to five million dollars with interest at five and two fifths percent. Notes are signed and countersigned by designated officials and reimbursed by the U S at specified places. The Secretary of the Treasury may issue, sell, or borrow on par or below par notes to pay creditors, with commissions to agents and transferability rules.
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Treasury
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
U.S
U. S
Sach
Colambia
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Treasury Notes and payments rules under new act enacted
The act details payment credit for principal and interest on Treasury Notes, with interest calculated daily per hundred dollars. It sets procedures for collectors and banks handling payments, requirements for duplicate certificates, and credit to the Treasury. It authorizes the sinking fund commissioners to reimburse and purchase notes at par and outlines funding and penalties for counterfeiting.
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United States
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Official Proceedings Record from Early Senate Session
The document records M H Crawford as Senate President pro tempore and notes approval by President Madison on February 25, 1813. It reflects a formal legislative action with the Speaker and representatives noted in the session context.
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M. H Crawford
The
Senate
Jai Madison
H. Clay
House of Representatives
H. Crawford
Act granting extra time to pay for public lands
The act extends the payment period for purchasers of public lands up to six hundred forty acres who bought before April 1 1809. It grants a three year extension with conditions including payment of arrears, interest, and staged principal installments, or land sale if missed. It excludes purchases north of the Ohio River before April 1808.
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Howe
United States
America
Congress
U. States
Dbmatiitg
Olio
Prague Congress plan fuels diplomatic debate in foreign chronicle
The London Adorning Chronicle discusses a Moniteur notice about a Prague council and notes Bonaparte's long standing aim. It highlights American passports used to reach Russia for mediation, with England largely excluded and Sweden neutral, as part of shifting continental and maritime peace strategies. It adds intelligence from Samuel Hammond through a Spanish patriot contact.
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Spain
Sicily
Oder
Vistula
Bonaparte
France
Prague
Moniteur
Earl of Aberdeen
J. B. Warren
Russia
Alexander
England
Masket
St. Petersburgh
Berlin
Sweden
Massicote Death and Bernardo Military Update
A June 1813 letter from General Bernardo updates Col. Cogswell on a patrol near the capital after a 700-strong force defeated the enemy in a daylong engagement. The account mourns Lewis Massicote, secretary of state, and requests a replacement fluent in English and Spanish. The issue also reports the Dispatch privateer incident near Salem, federalist ties, and a court outcome on the rescue of a brig.
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Col
A. Cogswell
Government House
St. Fernando
Aradondo
Persn
Elesando
Lewis Massicote
Republick
Texas
Massicote
Massicore
Jose Bernardo Cutierres
Honetebi
Cornelius’ Coolidgeant
Francis J. Oliver
Dispatch
Salem
Suff
United State
U. States
U. S
Call to Kentucky Militia for Upper Canada campaign action
A message to Kentucky soldiers states Gen. Harrison under U.S. authority has called for strong troops to counter the enemy in Upper Canada. It asserts Fort Meigs is invested though the foe will be driven from the post before the field is taken.
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Kentucky
Upper Canada
Harrison
U. States
Meigé
Anc
Isaac Shelby Calls for Kentucky Volunteers in 1813 Mobilization
In a July 30 1813 address from Frankfort Isaac Shelby urges Kentucky citizens to rally for a general rendezvous at Newport on the last day of August. He promises leadership, brief service up to sixty days, and rifle or musket provisions for those with or without arms, urging officers to recruit and prepare forces for decisive action in the ongoing conflict.
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Newport
Kentucky
Isaac
Shelby
Frankfort
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Henry Perry
Boston
Patriot
Cornelus Coelidge
Francis J Oliver
Cadiz
Cassigator
Coolidge
Oliver
Fort Independence
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