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[1842 Slip Bill Broadside on the Sale of Lands of the Chickasaw Indians and Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, U.S. House of Representatives].
[1842 Slip Bill Broadside on the Sale of Lands of the Chickasaw Indians and Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, U.S. House of Representatives].

[1842 Slip Bill Broadside on the Sale of Lands of the Chickasaw Indians and Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, U.S. House of Representatives].

Selling lands in the Chickasaw cession, in the States of Mississippi and Alabama


Rare Congressional slip bill printing for an “Amendment” concerning “...sales of lands in the Chickasaw cession, in the States of Mississippi and Alabama…” Unrecorded in OCLC.

Opening lines of caption title: “27th Congress, 2d Session. H.R. 345. June 1, 1842. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House to which said bill is committed. Mr. Halsted submitted the following…”

The amendment to House Resolution 345, a bill for the relief of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, was “[r]ead and committed to the Committee of the Whole House.” The present amendment, intended to replace the text following the bill’s enacting clause, makes reference to the U.S./Chickasaw treaty of May 24, 1834.

The amended bill was approved by the House later that month; subsequently approved by the Senate, and enacted into law on August 16, 1842.

Stephen Duncan of Natchez, Mississippi received a charter for the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi on February 27, 1833, after the state ended the banking monopoly held by the Bank of the State of Mississippi. This latter bank was headed by Duncan’s uncle. Duncan emigrated to Mississippi from Pennsylvania in 1808, having studied medicine there with Benjamin Rush. He gave up his medical career and instead became a cotton and sugar planter. He sold his shares in the bank in 1839.


Description: [U.S. House of Representatives]. [1842 Slip Bill Broadside on the Sale of Lands of the Chickasaw Indians and Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, U.S. House of Representatives].

[Washington, D.C.]. June 1, 1842. [1]p. Manuscript docketing on verso “Agricultural Relief Bill 1842.” An additional pencil inscription there reads: “Write Tho. A. Williams Baltimore.” Folds and creases; old ink manuscript offsetting, not affecting legibility; very good.

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Ref. Mitchell, A New History of Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2014).


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