U. S. Grant
Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, August 3, 1876. President Grant authorizes and directs "the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to a Warrant for the conditional pardon of Edward F. Cullerton." Signed boldly at the conclusion by the president. In fine condition. Accompanied by a handsome 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet portrait of General Grant in his military uniform, published in 1891 by M. P. Rice of Washington, D.C. On February 11, 1876, Cullerton was indicted for tax fraud while serving as an internal revenue gauger at the Dickinson, Leach and Co. distillery, when he 'permitted…ten thousand proof gallons to be removed to some place other than the distillery warehouse, without payment of the tax thereon imposed.' Cullerton was pardoned on the condition that he would pay a fine of one thousand dollars and the resultant costs of prosecution.
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Partly-printed DS as president, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, August 3, 1876. President Grant authorizes and directs "the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States to a Warrant for the conditional pardon of Edward F. Cullerton." Signed boldly at the conclusion by the president. In fine condition. Accompanied by a handsome 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet portrait of General Grant in his military uniform, published in 1891 by M. P. Rice of Washington, D.C. On February 11, 1876, Cullerton was indicted for tax fraud while serving as an internal revenue gauger at the Dickinson, Leach and Co. distillery, when he 'permitted…ten thousand proof gallons to be removed to some place other than the distillery warehouse, without payment of the tax thereon imposed.' Cullerton was pardoned on the condition that he would pay a fine of one thousand dollars and the resultant costs of prosecution.
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