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United States of America
Department of State-

To all to whom  these presents shall come Greeting - 

I Certify, that the document hereunto Annexed is a true Copy from the Records in this Department. 

I 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 second day of December A.D. 1865. And of the Independence of the United States of America the 90th.

(Signed) William H. Seward.

(seal of W.S.)

A true copy
Stuart Barnes
Capt & A.Q.M.
Supt 2d dist