| Item Description: | Caption title: To the chairman of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, to whom has been referred the petition of N.I. [i.e., N. J.] Roosevelt and his associates, praying for an act of incorporation of a mine and metal company. - Dated 1798, probably incorrectly, by Evans; 1800 by Shipton. The Mine and Metal Company was incorporated by Congress in January, 1801. - English Short Title Catalog, W37198. - Evans, 33987. - Evans, 37785. - Half-title. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Rink, E. Technical Americana, 3358. - Signed on p. 8: B.H. Latrobe |
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