Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 [Authority to affix seal to additional article to slave trade treaty with Britain]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07083 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Document signed Date: 5 March 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.1 cm, Width: 19.4 cm Order a Copy
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.
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