Lincoln, Abraham, as sixteenth President

Printed broadside document signed, accomplished in a clerical hand, on wove paper (11 x 16 3/4 in.; 280 x 425 mm); Washington, 8 April 1861, being Oscar Macy's appointment as "Collector of the Customs for the District of San Pedro, in the State of California, ..." countersigned by the Secretary of the Treasury ("S P Chase"), with an embossed seal of the Treasury Department lower left; some splits and repairs at folds, faint mat burn at edges. Half blue morocco folding-case gilt.