Raynors HCA 2016-06
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RANDOLPH, Edmund (August 10, 1753 – September 12, 1813) was an American attorney, the seventh Governor of Virginia, the second Secretary of State, and the first United States Attorney General. Document Signed “Edm: Randoph” as Secretary of State, Philadelphia, Broadside, 13-1/4 x 8 inches, Philadelphia. 1794. Minor tanning and foxing. Old fold lines. VG. An Act passed by the Third Congress regarding the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers. This law, in connection with the existing articles of war, fixed the status of engineers and gave them command proportionate to their rank. "Approved - May the ninth 1794," and signed in print by Speaker of the House Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Vice President John Adams, and President George Washington. Variant states of other acts of the Third Congress are known, and this issue is that which also has the printed lines "Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of State" and "Secretary of State" and signed in manuscript by the second Secretary of State Edmund Randolph. Edmund Randolph became the second Secretary of State on Jan. 2, 1794, succeeding Thomas Jefferson, who resigned at the end of 1793. He continued the practice begun in the First Congress of the Secretary of State signing a small number of "official" copies of Congressional acts for distribution to the States and important government officials. After the Third Congress, official acts were no longer signed in manuscript by the Secretary of State.
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