2021-02 Raynors HCA Live
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/6/2021
A complete and authentic issue of The Federal Gazette, Baltimore, August 18, 1796, disbound, 4pp., rag paper, VG. From the 3rd page "A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS a Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation, signed at San Lorenzo el Real .... which is signed in type by "G. Washington, President" and "Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State."The treaty specified that Spain would recognize the 31st parallel (the northern border of present-day Florida) as the southern boundary of the United States, that Spain would allow American goods to land at New Orleans tax-free for a period of three years (with an option to renew), and that both countries would be allowed to use the Mississippi River freely.
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