Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 14.75 x 17.75, February 26, 1852. President Fillmore appoints C. F. M. Spotswood "as a Lieutenant in the Navy…in the service of the United States." Signed at the conclusion by Millard Fillmore, and countersigned by Secretary of the Navy William A. Graham. The beige Navy Department seal is affixed to the lower right. In very good to fine condition, with repairs to small areas of vellum loss, light toning along intersecting folds, and the handwritten portions of the body of the document faint but readable.
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