PRESIDENT MARTIN VAN BUREN - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/14/1830 - HFSID 253303
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MARTIN VAN BUREN
Jackson's Secretary of State copyrights a book on court cases authored by son
of Washington's Secretary of State. Partly Printed DS: "M. Van Buren"
as Secretary of State, 1p, 8x12¾.
Washington, 1830 June 14. In full: "I certify, That Octavius
Pickering Has this fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty and of Independence the fifty-fourth deposited in the
Office of the Department of State, a certain Book consisting of five hundred and
ninety one pages entitled Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme
Judicial Court of Massachusetts By Octavius Pickering, Counsellor at Law Volume
7 The Copy-right whereof is claimed by Octavius Pickering as author under the
provisions of 'An act or the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies
of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies,
during the times therein mentioned,' passed on the 31st day of May, A.D. 1790,
and of An act supplementary to an act, entitled, 'An act for the encouragement
of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors
and Proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned,' and
extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching,
historical and other prints,' passed on the 29th of April, A.D. 1802." 1½-inch diameter Secretary of State's Office seal affixed at
lower left. After the United States passed its first copyright law in
May 1790, amendments, such as the one enacted in 1802 (mentioned in this
document), were made to reflect new materials and innovations. OCTAVIUS
PICKERING (1791-1868) was a son of Washington's Secretary of State and War and
Postmaster General, Timothy Pickering. From 1822-1840, he was reporter of
the Supreme Court of Massachusetts and prepared the Reports of Cases in the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 24 volumes, Boston: 1822-1840. He was
working on the Life of Timothy Pickering by his Son
at the time of his death, completing only the first of four volumes. Docketed on
verso of blank integral leaf. Fragile. ¼-inch separations at horizontal folds at
blank margins. The blank mid-horizontal fold separated and was repaired in 2
places on verso with plastic tape (no stain). Lightly creased.
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