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JACKSON, Andrew. Partly printed document signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth and Attorney General Benajmin F. Butler, Washington, D.C., 4 October 1831. 2½ pages, folio, 15¼ x 11 7/8 inches, accomplished in manuscript, ON PARCHMENT, large papered seal of the U.S. attached to two pink ribbons, upper left corner missing on both pages and upper right corner missing on second page. A PATENT granted by President Jackson to Reuben Bacon and Elijah Harris, who "...have invented a new and useful improvement in the Constructing of the Fire-place and Chimney and that the following is a full and exact description ... We call our Invention - Improved Cast Iron Chimneys Fire-places and fronts."
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JACKSON, Andrew. Partly printed document signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth and Attorney General Benajmin F. Butler, Washington, D.C., 4 October 1831. 2½ pages, folio, 15¼ x 11 7/8 inches, accomplished in manuscript, ON PARCHMENT, large papered seal of the U.S. attached to two pink ribbons, upper left corner missing on both pages and upper right corner missing on second page. A PATENT granted by President Jackson to Reuben Bacon and Elijah Harris, who "...have invented a new and useful improvement in the Constructing of the Fire-place and Chimney and that the following is a full and exact description ... We call our Invention - Improved Cast Iron Chimneys Fire-places and fronts."

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JACKSON, Andrew. Partly printed document signed ("Andrew Jackson") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth and Attorney General Benajmin F. Butler, Washington, D.C., 4 October 1831. 2½ pages, folio, 15¼ x 11 7/8 inches, accomplished in manuscript, ON PARCHMENT, large papered seal of the U.S. attached to two pink ribbons, upper left corner missing on both pages and upper right corner missing on second page. A PATENT granted by President Jackson to Reuben Bacon and Elijah Harris, who "...have invented a new and useful improvement in the Constructing of the Fire-place and Chimney and that the following is a full and exact description ... We call our Invention - Improved Cast Iron Chimneys Fire-places and fronts."

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