To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,
Greeting:
Whereas, in and by Resolves of Our Legislature, to wit, the eighty-fifth chapter of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, entitled “Concerning the Universal Exposition at Paris,” in France, an exhibition of the agricultural, manufacturing and artistic productions of all Nations, it is declared and provided, that “whereas our General Government has initiated measures to have the United States of America represented in that Exposition,” therefore “That the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the council, be and hereby is authorized to appoint a Commissioner to attend said Exposition , and to co-operate with the Commissioner accredited by our General Government to the Imperial Commission”:

Now Therefore, Know Ye, that We, by our Governor, Confiding in the integrity, intelligence and especial fitness of WILLIAM B. ROGERS, of Boston, do hereby, with the advice of the council, by these Presents, assign, appoint and constitute him, the said William B. Rogers, to be Our Commissioner at the Universal Exposition at Paris, for and during the Year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, to co-operate with the said Commissioner accredited by the Government of the United States; and he, the said William B. Rogers, is invested with the functions, and charged with the responsibilities, which shall pertain to the trust here conferred and imposed.

By His Excellency the Governor,
With advice of the council.

Witness, His Excellency Alexander H. Bullock, Our Governor and OUR SEAL hereunto affixed, at Boston , the twenty-ninth day of June in the year one Thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and
in the ninetieth of the Independence of the United States of America


Oliver Warner (signature)
Secretary of the Commonwealth.