MONROE, JAMES, President. Partly printed document signed ("James Monroe") as President, COUNTERSIGNED BY SECRETARY OF STATE, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. New Bedford, Mass., 11 April 1821. One page, folio, 381 x 271 mm. (15 x 10 5/8 in.), printed ON PARCHMENT, calligraphic text headed "By the President of the United States," finely engraved with a large vignette of a fully-rigged ship, and a large light-house on a rocky islet with a port city visible in the background, original papered seal of the United States at lower-left, accomplished in manuscript, scalloped top edge. A SHIP'S PASSPORT for the Residens of Fairhaven, James Tripp, Master.