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United States of America. 
Department of State. 

To all whom these presents come, greeting: 

I certify, that the government hereunto amended is a true copy of the original our file in this Department. 

In testimony thereof, I, William H Seward Secretary of State of the United Sates, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seat of the Department of State to be affixed. 
Done at the...This ninth day of November 1865. and of the Independence of the United States the ninetieth. signed William H. Seward 


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