BIB_ID
120870
Accession number
MA 810.11
Creator
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865.
Display Date
1863 Sept. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906 or 1910.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope with seal.
This item is part of a collection of letters and legal documents of Abraham Lincoln; see main record for MA 810 for more information.
This item is part of a collection of letters and legal documents of Abraham Lincoln; see main record for MA 810 for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the New York Co-operative Society, 1906 or 1910.
Summary
Authorizing him "to exercise such powers as may be necessary and proper to enable the loyal people of Tennessee to present such a republican form of State government as will entitle the state to the guaranty of the United States therefor, and to be protected under such State government, by the United States, against invasion and domestic violence -- all according to the fourth Section of the fourth Article of the Constitution of the United States."
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