Partly-printed vellum DS as president, signed “Wm. H. Taft,” one page, 14.25 x 17.25, July 10, 1911. President Taft appoints Robert Lincoln Gray as a "Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps in the service of the United States." Signed at the conclusion by William H. Taft, and countersigned by Acting Secretary of War Robert Shaw Oliver. The blue seal affixed to the lower left remains intact. In very good to fine condition, with overall rippling, folded-over edges, and Taft's signature very light; the last letter virtually invisible.
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