Autograph letter signed : to Governor Mifflin, 1797 June 5.

Record ID: 
101612
Accession number: 
MA 555.32
Author: 
Ingersoll, Jared, 1749-1822.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1904.
Description: 
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 32.3 cm
Notes: 

Written on the verso of a letter from John Hall, Secretary of the Land Office, to Governor Mifflin, concerning the resignation of his Clerks over the lack of a pay increase.
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and documents by the signers of the Constitution of the United States; see collection record (MA 555) for more information.

Summary: 

Interpreting the existing law that concerns a pay raise for the clerks in the Land office; saying that it would not be inconsistent with the law for the clerks to be rehired at a higher pay with "Terms similar to what Clerks of their Capacity can attain in other offices and in proportion to their usefulness in the Land Office."