5 March 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Document signed
Title: [Authority to affix seal to additional article to slave trade treaty with Britain]
Partially printed document. Lincoln signs an official State Department warrant ordering the Secretary of State to affix the Great Seal of the United States to "my ratification of the Additional Article to the slave trade treaty between the United States and Great Britain, of the 7th April 1862." Written in a secretarial hand.
GLC07083