JEFFERSON, THOMAS, President and JAMES MADISON. Document signed ("Th:Jefferson") as President and ("James Madison") as Secretary of State, countersigned by David Gelston, Collector of the Port of New York, n.p. [issued at New York], 14 May 1806. One page, folio, ON PARCHMENT, finely engraved by E. Savage, calligraphic text at top, "By the President of the United States of America," beneath a large vignette of a fully-rigged ship and a view of a light-house on a rocky inlet with a city in the background, original paper seal of the United States intact, scalloped edge at top, dampstained along central horizontal fold, not affecting signature or vignettes, accomplished in manuscript. A ship's passport for the Eliza, captained by Stephen Leach, mounting no guns and manned by a crew of nine men, asking the vessel be allowed "to pass with her Company, Passengers, Goods and Merchandize, without any hindrance, seizure or molestation..."