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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
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Department of State. 

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
I Certify, That the document hereunto annexed is a true copy of the original on file in this Department.

In Testimony Whereof, I William H. Seward, Secretary of State of the United States, have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Seal of the Department of State to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this twenty-seventh day of October A.D. 1865, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Ninetieth.

William H. Seward

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