JACKSON, ANDREW, 1767-1848, President. Partly printed document signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Edward Livingston and Attorney General Roger B. Taney, Washington, D.C., 4 October 1831. 1 page, folio, 352 x 273mm. (14 x 10 3/6 in.), accomplished in manuscript, ON FINE PARCHMENT, large papered seal of the U.S. attached to two blue silk ribbons, three binding holes in blank left margin, top edge shaved, catching the upper portion of the engraved heading "The United States of America." A PATENT granted by President Jackson to William Black, who "...has invented a new and useful improvement in the Plough, which improvement he states has not been known or used before his application, [and he has] made oath that he...is the true inventor or discoverer..." Having paid the requisite fees, Black is granted for fourteen years "...the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used, the said improvement..."

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JACKSON, ANDREW, 1767-1848, President. Partly printed document signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State Edward Livingston and Attorney General Roger B. Taney, Washington, D.C., 4 October 1831. 1 page, folio, 352 x 273mm. (14 x 10 3/6 in.), accomplished in manuscript, ON FINE PARCHMENT, large papered seal of the U.S. attached to two blue silk ribbons, three binding holes in blank left margin, top edge shaved, catching the upper portion of the engraved heading "The United States of America." A PATENT granted by President Jackson to William Black, who "...has invented a new and useful improvement in the Plough, which improvement he states has not been known or used before his application, [and he has] made oath that he...is the true inventor or discoverer..." Having paid the requisite fees, Black is granted for fourteen years "...the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used, the said improvement..."