26. Appointment certificate of Jesse T. Jarrett as tax assessor
Title
26. Appointment certificate of Jesse T. Jarrett as tax assessor
Description
Appointment of Jesse T. Jarrett (Dubuque, Iowa) as Assessor of Taxes for the Third Collection District of Iowa, signed by Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase. August 29, 1862. Jarrett had worked as a United States government land surveyor in the 1850s. Document Signed.
Date
1862-08-29
Contributor
Becki Plunkett and Stephen Vincent
Rights
Copyright State Historical Society of Iowa. Information at http://www.iowahistory.org/libraries/services-and-fees/conditions-for-image-reproductions.html
Digital Reproduction Information
Original scanned at 600 dpi w/ sRGB color space.
Repository
State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines
Repository Collection
Special Collections: Jesse T. Jarrett Collection
Digital item created
10/3/2008
Transcription
Abraham Lincoln
President of the United States
TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
Know ye, That, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, diligence, and discretion of Jesse T. Jarrett of Dubuque, I do appoint him as an Assessor of Taxes for the Third
Collection District of the State of Iowa. and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfill the duties of that office according to law; and to have and to hold the said office, with all the rights and emolulents there unto legally appertaining, unto him, the said Jesse T.Jarrett during the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for the time being and until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States and no longer.
In testimony thereof, I have caused these letters to made patent, and the Seal of the Treasury Department of the United States to be here unto affixed. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington this twentyninth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty seventh
By the President
Abraham Lincoln
SP Chase, Secretary of the Treasury
President of the United States
TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
Know ye, That, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, diligence, and discretion of Jesse T. Jarrett of Dubuque, I do appoint him as an Assessor of Taxes for the Third
Collection District of the State of Iowa. and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfill the duties of that office according to law; and to have and to hold the said office, with all the rights and emolulents there unto legally appertaining, unto him, the said Jesse T.Jarrett during the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for the time being and until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States and no longer.
In testimony thereof, I have caused these letters to made patent, and the Seal of the Treasury Department of the United States to be here unto affixed. Given under my hand, at the city of Washington this twentyninth day of August in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two and of the independence of the United States of America the eighty seventh
By the President
Abraham Lincoln
SP Chase, Secretary of the Treasury