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ADAMS, JOHN, President. Autograph letter signed in full as President, TO SECRETARY OF STATE TIMOTHY PICKERING, Quincy, Massachusetts, 29 March 1799. One page, 4to, integral blank with recipient's docket, minor tears at lower edges reinforced from verso.
PRESIDENT TO SECRETARY OF STATE, APPOINTING A CONSUL AT CANTON, CHINA
Adams approves the appointment of an American Consul at the Chinese port city of Canton, China, focal point of the burgeoning American-China maritime trade. "Mr. [Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin] Stoddert's recommendation of Mr. James Reid of New Hampshire to be Vice Consul at Canton, inclosed in your Letter of the 21. and returned in this, is Sufficient for my satisfaction, provided you know of no other candidate of greater merit, or Superior qualifications. You may therefore make out his Commission as soon as you please. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient John Adams.
PRESIDENT TO SECRETARY OF STATE, APPOINTING A CONSUL AT CANTON, CHINA
Adams approves the appointment of an American Consul at the Chinese port city of Canton, China, focal point of the burgeoning American-China maritime trade. "Mr. [Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin] Stoddert's recommendation of Mr. James Reid of New Hampshire to be Vice Consul at Canton, inclosed in your Letter of the 21. and returned in this, is Sufficient for my satisfaction, provided you know of no other candidate of greater merit, or Superior qualifications. You may therefore make out his Commission as soon as you please. I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient John Adams.