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The E-Sylum: Volume 4, Number 44, October 28, 2001, Article 6 THREE FINDS FROM CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA Howard A. Daniel III writes: "While recently in Charlottesville, Virginia, to pick up some postal orders at a stamp show and to see some friends, I found the Heartwood Used & Rare Books store. I found one booklet about the Tamil people of India to give a friend, and three United States publications with numismatic information in them. The first has the outside title of "Acts passed at the First Session of the Sixth Congress of the United States". The first page has the Congress in Philadelphia and meeting on December 2, 1799. John Adams was the president and Thomas Jefferson was the vice president. It was very exciting for me to find this document! It probably describes a couple of hundred acts. One is to give the privilege of franking letters and packages to Martha Washington. Another act was to establish a general stamp office and three acts later is one reflecting the mint. A later act enables the President to borrow money for the public service, and the last one is supplementary to the act establishing the mint, and regulating the coins of the United States. It must have been a very exciting time to establish the United States and all of its functions! The document is complete but the paper covers and many of the pages are loose. Some of the pages appear to have also been chewed into by various insects. It is a very interesting piece of history. The second is from the House of Representatives (Treasury Department) Document Number 65 of the 2nd Session of the 24th Congress dated January 4, 1837 and is about "Statements showing the condition of certain State banks, etc., etc., rendered in compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of 10th Jul, 1832. The title of the contents is "Statements showing the Capital, Circulation, Discounts, Specie, etc., of the different State Banks and Banking Companies in the United States". There are 216 pages in the document. It has no cover but the pages and charts are in excellent condition for its age. None of the pages have been cut for it to open like a book, so it is in as-issued condition. It starts with Maine and each of its counties and cities, then down the East Coast of the United States and into the Southern States, and up into the Midwest and to Ohio. The information about each bank is very detailed and includes currency and other financial instruments. The third is again from the House of Representatives and it is Executive Document 68 of the 1st Session of the 31st Congress dated May 16, 1850, and that 10,000 copies were printed on June 14, 1850. The title is the "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury relative to The condition of the banks in the United States". This is very much like the above second document but more states and more details. There are 428 pages in the document. It has a hard cover but the front cover is loose and the binding is very loose. The pages are in excellent condition, and except for the edges are generally all white. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia are included and there are many different types of financial instruments described that are associated with each bank. I am sure there are other documents similar to the above still in the Heartwood Used & Rare Books store, but I did not have time to look at every shelf. I will be back there in a few months and will look again, but if you are interested in documents like the above and near Charlottesville, Virginia, please stop at the store and see what you can find." If you are interested these documents, please contact me at my email address of Howard@SEAsianTreasury.com

Wayne Homren, Editor

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