Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume XI

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Form of Commission Issued to Under Secretary of State Frank L. Polk as Commissioner Plenipotentiary

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Woodrow Wilson

President of the United States of America

To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:

Know ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity and ability of the Honorable Frank Lyon Polk, Under Secretary of State of the United States, I do appoint him to be a Commissioner Plenipotentiary on the part of the United States at the International Peace Conference to meet at Versailles, hereby empowering him to meet and confer with any persons invested by their respective Governments with like power and authority and with them to negotiate, conclude and sign for and in the name of the United States, any and all International Acts necessary to the conclusion of a definitive peace, the same to be transmitted to the President of the United States for his ratification, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

Given under my hand in the District of Columbia, this nineteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-fourth. [seal]

Woodrow Wilson

By the President:
William Phillips
Acting Secretary of State.