Partly-printed DS, signed “Dan'l Webster,” one page, 7.25 x 9.75, December 12, 1851. Circular from the State Department issued to Orville C. Pratt of the "U.S. Dist. Court, Oregon Territory," which reads: "Herewith you will receive the Eleventh volume of Howard's Reports, of the delivery of which you will be pleased to notify this Department." Signed at the conclusion by Daniel Webster as Secretary of State. In very good to fine condition, with some creasing, light mottled toning, and slight show-through from an affixed identification sticker on the reverse. Orville C. Pratt (1819-1891) was an American jurist and attorney who served as the 2nd Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court serving from 1848 to 1852. He wrote the lone dissenting opinion in the controversy over the Oregon Territory’s capital between Oregon City and Salem.
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