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American History: Premier Auction
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- Sale 1853
Live
| Cincinnati
Jun 21 | 10:00 AM EDT
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1853
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$500 – $700
Printed broadside, 11.875 x 18.75 in., outlining the "Rules and Regulations for Leasing Abandoned Plantations and Employing Freedmen." Issued in Cincinnati, OH by William Proctor Mellen, Supervising Special Agent, First Agency, United States Treasury Department: February 8, 1864. With sample "Form of Lease" agreement and twenty-four stipulations for leasing plantation land to Freedmen, defining a fixed wage system for laborers and setting limits on the size and number of abandoned plantations an individual may rent. This leasing system fell under the purview of the United States Treasury Department, where William Mellen (1814-1873) was employed as the Supervising Special Agent at Cincinnati's First Agency.
Descended Directly in the Family of Asa Severance Fiske
Scattered brown spots and significant creasing, with some tears along fold lines.
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