?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
MONROE, JAMES. Partly-printed Document Signed, "Jas. Monroe," as Secretary of State: "Instructions for the Private Armed Vessels of the United States," granting letter of marque to a privateer, Captain A.B. of the Ship A. of S. The first two printed pages are "An ACT Concerning Letters of Marque, Prizes and Prize Goods," signed in type by H. Clay as Speaker of the House, Wm. H. Crawford as President of the Senate, and President James Madison. 2 1/2 pages, tall 4to, on two separate sheets [originally conjugate leaves]; some chipping and minor toning at all edges, short closed separations at folds. Np, [circa 1812]
