(POST OFFICE) An Act to Establish the Post Office and Post R

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SIGNED ACT TO ESTABLISH THE POST OFFICE (POST OFFICE.) An Act to Establish the Post-Office and Post-Roads within the United States. 11 pages. Folio, stitched; minor dampstaining, small holes on final two leaves with loss of a few letters; uncut, signed by Edmund Randolph as Secretary of State. [Philadelphia: Francis Childs and John Swaine?, 1794]

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Randolph here followed the short-lived practice of signing some of the official printings of Congressional acts, which was discontinued after the Third Congress. Signed in type by Washington and Adams. Three copies listed in ESTC. Evans 27849.