Partly-printed DS, one page, 14 x 14.75, December 8, 1848. Bond of the Hudson & Berkshire Rail-Road Co. for $1000, boldly signed at the conclusion in ink by Fillmore as Comptroller of New York. Also signed by the company's president and secretary, with 32 of the coupons intact below. In part: "The Hudson and Berkshire Rail-Road Company, Acknowledges themselves indebted to the Comptroller of the State of New York, for the use of the holder of this Bond, in the sum of One Thousand Dollars…they promise to pay at the Mechanics' Bank, in the City of New York…with interest at the rate of seven percent per annum." Nicely matted and framed with a portrait to an overall size of 21.5 x 21.5. In fine condition, with cancelation holes to Fillmore's signature.
Fillmore was the first comptroller of New York to be elected, the post having previously been appointed by the state legislature. In that office, he was a member of the state canal board, supported its expansion, and saw that it was managed competently. He secured an enlargement of Buffalo's canal facilities and stabilized the currency by requiring that state-chartered banks keep New York and federal bonds to the value of the banknotes they issued.
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