Washington, George, as First President

Manuscript document signed ("G:^{o Washington") and countersigned by Secretary of State Edmund Randolph ("By the President | Edm: Randolph"), one page bifolium with integral blank leaf, crisp impression of presidential paper seal, [Philadelphia], 22 June 1795, recognizing Leon Delauney as French consul for Pennsylvania and Delaware; some light browning, some waterstaining and abrasion in upper right corner, one-inch of fore-edge of blank leaf apparently trimmed away.}  

Abbot, Journal of the Proceedings of the President, 1793-1797, p. 329 (recording the exequatur on 23 June 1795) 

Manuscript document signed ("G:o Washington") and countersigned by Secretary of State Edmund Randolph ("By the President | Edm: Randolph"), one page bifolium with integral blank leaf, crisp impression of presidential paper seal, [Philadelphia], 22 June 1795, recognizing Leon Delauney as French consul for Pennsylvania and Delaware; some light browning, some waterstaining and abrasion in upper right corner, one-inch of fore-edge of blank leaf apparently trimmed away.
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