JEFFERSON, THOMAS. President. Partly printed document signed ("Th: Jefferson") as President, countersigned by Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 9 April 1804. 1 page, folio, 201 x 313 mm. (8 x 13 in. ), ON PARCHMENT, accomplished in manuscript. An uncommon Jefferson naval appointment.(American Book Prices Current records only three at auction in two decades). Gwinn Harris is names a purser in the U.S. Navy: "He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duties of a Purser ...according to the Rules and Discipline of the Navy. This Warrant to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States..."

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JEFFERSON, THOMAS. President. Partly printed document signed ("Th: Jefferson") as President, countersigned by Robert Smith, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D.C., 9 April 1804. 1 page, folio, 201 x 313 mm. (8 x 13 in. ), ON PARCHMENT, accomplished in manuscript. An uncommon Jefferson naval appointment.(American Book Prices Current records only three at auction in two decades). Gwinn Harris is names a purser in the U.S. Navy: "He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duties of a Purser ...according to the Rules and Discipline of the Navy. This Warrant to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States..."