HAYES, RUTHERFORD B., President. Partly printed document signed ("RB Hayes") as President, countersigned by Secretaary of State, William M. Evarts. New Bedford, 23 October 1877. One page, folio, 431 x 560 mm. (17 x 22 in.), original paper seal on lower right-hand portion, accomplished in manuscript, some tape repairs on verso. FOUR-LANGUAGE SHIP'S PAPERS in French, Spanish, English and Dutch, for the vessel Union, commanded by William U. Reynard, Jr., sailing from New Bedford to the Atlantic Ocean "laden with Provisions, Stores and utensils for a whaling voyage."