United States of America: State of Mississippi, to wit: By This Public Instrument of Protest…

1838 legal protest of non-payment of a note drawn on the Planters’ Bank of the State of Mississippi, at Vicksburg

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Legal instrument of protest signed by Alexander H. Arthur, Notary Public for the Office of the Planters’ Bank of the State of Mississippi at Vicksburg.

Arthur declares that he presented a bank note for $267.73 to the Planters’ Bank and that the teller there “...refused to pay the same, saying that the drawers not accepted [sic] had made no deposit of funds for that purpose.” Arthur’s formal protest was made on behalf of “Robert Riddle, Esq., Cashier and holder of the original Note.” A copy of this note, signed by H.G. Bankston and Wm. Burton, is copied out at the bottom of the document. The note had been originally issued to the firm Jennings & Drone. Docketing on the verso mentions “Damages $214.23.”

In addition to being a notary, Alexander H. Arthur was, at some point, the editor of the Vicksburg Tri-Weekly Whig a director of the Southern Railroad Company, and a member of the Vicksburg city council.

An early Mississippi banking item and legal instrument.

Price: $350.00