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Appointment of secretary., February 14, 1871
Appointment of secretary.
Executive Mansion, Washington, February 14, 1871.
To J. C. Bancroft Davis, Esq., Assistant Secretary of State:
You are hereby designated and directed to perform the duties of secretary of the commissioners on behalf of the United States in the joint high commission, to meet in Washington for the consideration of the questions pending between the United States and Great Britain.
U. S. GRANT.
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.