Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10, June 9, 1870. President Grant directs the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “my full power to John L. Stevens, Minister to Uruguay, to conclude and sign an Article stipulating for the extension of the time for exchanging the ratifications of the treaty between the United States and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, signed on the 28th August 1852.” Signed at the conclusion by U. S. Grant. In fine condition, with faint toning to the edges and folds. This document appears to relate an amendment of an earlier Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation between the United States and Uruguay, which was signed on August 28, 1852. This treaty aimed to establish and promote commercial and friendly relations between the two countries.
A senator from Maine, Stevens (1820-1895) is most well-known as the leader of the 1893 coup that temporarily deposed the Hawaiian government while he was Ambassador to the Hawaiian Islands. When Grover Cleveland assumed the presidency shortly thereafter, he reinstated the queen and recalled Minister Stevens from Hawaii and forced him into retirement.
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