TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD, President. Engraved document signed ("Wm H Taft") as President, countersigned by Secretary of War George von L. Meyer. Washington D.C., 12 March 1910. One page, folio, 483 x 393 mm. (19 x 15½ in), on vellum, blue paper seal of the United States at lower-center, calligraphic text headed "The President of the United States," above which is an American Eagle, a large vignette of crossed flags, cannon and other military paraphernalia at bottom, accomplished in manuscript. Appointment of Ormond L. Cox as "Lieutenant, junior grade, in the Navy."