Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.75 x 19.5, October 13, 1896. President Cleveland appoints Walter S. Burke as “a Passed Assistant Engineer in the Navy with the relative rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade." Signed at the conclusion by Grover Cleveland and countersigned by Secretary of the Navy Hilary A. Herbert. The bright blue Navy Department seal remains affixed to the lower vignette. In fine condition.
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