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Missouri bond No. 32 for $1000, redeemable 30 years thereafter. Signed by Governor Sterling Price and Secretary of State John M. Richardson. Registered on April 15th, 1853.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. $1,000. Bond No. 32 STATE OF MISSOURI. Know all Men by these Presents, That the State of Missouri hereby acknowledges to owe, for value received, to A. W. Morrison Treasurer, or Bearer, the sum of ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS, lawful money of the United States of America, which sum of One Thousand Dollars the State of Missouri promises to pay, thirty years after the date hereof, (redeemable at the pleasure of the State, at any time after twenty years,) to A. W. Morrison Treasurer, or Bearer, in gold or silver, payable at the BANK OF COMMERCE, in the City of New York, in the State of New York. This bond being issued under and pursuant to the ACt of the General ASsembly of the State of Missouri, entitled "An Act to provide means to pay the State Bonds falling due in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three," approved February 24, 1853, a true copy of which appears on the back hereof. In Testimony Whereof, and pursuant to the authority granted by said Act, the Governor of the State of Missouri has signed, and the Secretary of State has countersigned, these presents, and caused the Great Seal of the State of Missouri to be affixed hereto, at the City of Jefferson, in said State, this fifteenth day of April A.D., 1853. By the Governor, [signed] Sterling Price Registered at the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, this fifteenth day of April 1853. [signed] MSA Buffington Auditor of Public Accounts [signed] John M. Richardson Secretary of State.
Creation Date
4-15-1853
City
Jefferson City
County
Cole
State/Province
Missouri
Country
United States
Creator Life Dates
1809-1867
Keywords
Missouri, Bond, Sterling Price, John M. Richardson, Bond No. 32, A.W. Morrison, 15 April 1853, 1853, $1000
Resource Identifier
070425-70
Date Digital
May 2014
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Economic History | United States History
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
en-us
Digitization Specifications
800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Price, Sterling; Richardson, John M.; and Morrison, A. W., "Missouri bond No. 32 for $1000. Signed by Sterling Price, governor, April 15, 1853." (1853). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 251.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/251
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