PIERCE, FRANKLIN, President. Partly printed document signed ("Franklin Pierce") as President, countersigned by Secretary of State William L. Marcy. New Bedford, Mass., 13 October 1854. One page, folio, 427 x 555 mm. (16 7/8 x 21 7/8 in.), original paper seal of the United States in center right-hand portion, accomplished in manuscript, some chipping and cracking at margins, otherwise fine. FOUR-LANGUAGE SHIP'S PAPERS in French, Spanish, English and Dutch, for the vessel Atlantic, commanded by William J. Myer, sailing from New Bedford to the Pacific Ocean "laden with Provisions, Stores and utensils for a whaling voyage."