In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]
Done at the city of Washington, this 2d day of March, A.D. 1849, and of the Independence of the United States of America the seventy-third.
JAMES K. POLK.
By the President:
JAMES BUCHANAN,
Secretary of State.
Footnotes
1 For failing to protect the American armed brig General Armstrong, while lying in the port of Fayal, Azores, from attack by British armed ships on September 26, 1814.