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President Franklin Pierce Sends James Buchanan to Sign an Extradition Convention with Bavaria

President Pierce assigns James Buchanan, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, to exchange the ratifications of an extradition convention between America and Bavaria

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President Pierce assigns James Buchanan, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, to exchange the ratifications of an extradition convention between America and Bavaria

Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10, July 26, 1854. President Pierce authorizes and directs the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to “a Power to James Buchanan to exchange the ratifications of the Convention between the U. States & Bavaria, concluded at London the 12th September, 1853.” Crisply and prominently signed at the conclusion in ink by President Franklin Pierce. The left edge is affixed to a slightly larger backing sheet. In fine condition, with faint toning to the edges and folds. An Extradition Convention was signed between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the United States on September 12, 1853, in London by the U.S. Minister to Britain James Buchanan and Augustus Baron de Cetto, the Bavarian Envoy to London.

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