Partly-printed vellum DS as president, one page, 15.5 x 19.5, August 15, 1876. President Grant appoints Joseph B. Porter as "a Surgeon in the Navy…of the grade of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, to have relative rank as provided by law." Neatly signed at the conclusion in ink by President Ulysses S. Grant, and countersigned by Acting Secretary of the Navy Daniel Ammen. The blue seal affixed at the bottom remains mostly intact. In fine condition, with intersecting folds and slightly irregular ink adhesion.
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