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Lot #103
William H. Taft Document Signed as President, Appointing an Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital Service

Estimate: $200+

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Description

Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 19.5 x 15.75, January 18, 1911. President Taft appoints Friench Simpson as "Passed Assistant Surgeon, to rank as such from October 6, 1910, in the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States." Neatly signed at the conclusion in ink by President William H. Taft and countersigned by Secretary of the Treasury Franklin MacVeagh. In very good to fine condition, with staining along the left side.

From the collection of Mark S. Robbins.

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