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On his next-to-last day in office, President Buchanan pardons a former judge, Daniel Vandersmith, serving a sentence for forgery.
Document Signed, as President, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript; 1 page, quarto, Washington, March 2, 1861. To the Secretary of State, Jeremiah Sullivan Black.
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I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State
to affix the Seal of the United States to
a Warrant for the pardon of Daniel B. Vandersmith,
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dated this day, and signed by me: and for so doing this
shall be his warrant.
JAMES BUCHANAN
Washington, 2d March, 1861.
to affix the Seal of the United States to
a Warrant for the pardon of Daniel B. Vandersmith,
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dated this day, and signed by me: and for so doing this
shall be his warrant.
JAMES BUCHANAN
Washington, 2d March, 1861.
