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shall notify the Secretary of the State in writing that he has received and accepting the foregoing pardon.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name ad caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.  Done at the City of Washington the 14th day of August A.D. 1865; and after the independence of the United States the ninetieth
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(Signed) Andrew Johnson

By the President (Signed)
William H. Seward
Secretary of State

United States of America,
Department of State:
To all to whom these presents shall come:
Greeting:  I certify that John W. Lapsley of the County of Shelby, State of Alabama has deposited in this Department his original oath hearing date 22d day of September 1865, being in the form prescribed by the President's proclamation of 29th May 1865.  In testimony whereof I William H. Seward, Secretary of the Stat of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington this 22d day of September 1865 and after Independence of the United States the nineteeth.

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(Signed) William H. Seward
Secretary