Appendix E: 1903 Petition

I, E.E. McCollister, Notary Public in and for the County of Greer, Territory of Oklahoma, U.S. of A., for the present certify that I have compared the attached copy of the instrument with the original document and what I find is a true and exact copy of the same in each and all judgment. Signed this day, 19th of February of 1903, E.E. McCollister, Notary Public in and for the County of Greer, Territory of Oklahoma. United States of America. A gold seal that states: “EE McCollister. Public Notary. County of Greer. Oklahoma.” My commission expires the 29th of January of 1903 [sic, 1905]. A gold seal that states: “EE McCollister. Notary Public. County of Greer. Oklahoma.”

Number 22637
United States of America
Department of State


To all to whom this is presented will see,
Greetings:

I Certify: that the attached document is officially issued under the seal of the Territory of Oklahoma and deserves credence: In testimony that I give, I John Hoy, Secretary of State the United States, have signed my name and sent it for placement of the seal of the Secretary of State. Done in the City of Washington, today- 23rd -of October, A.D. of 1903; and one hundred and twenty-eight days from of the Independence of the United States of America. Signed John Hoy. A red seal that states: “Department of State. United States of America.”

In the margin No. 116. Mexican Embassy in the United States of America. The undersigned, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary [a diplomat having full power or authority] of the United Mexican States in Washington. Certified: that the Honorable John Hay [sic, Hoy], is Secretary of State of the United States of America and his is the signature that appears in the attached document. - Washington, on the twenty-third of October, A.D. of nineteen hundred and three. M. de Abzpizoz~Fancy signature~ Taxes charged: $4.00 – gold. A gold seal that states: “Mexican Embassy in the United States of America.”

In the margin: Canceled stamps joined for a value of four pesos twenty centavos. Number 1575. ~ The undersigned Undersecretary of Exterior Relations certified: that Senor Don M. de Azpizor is Ambassador of Mexican in Washington and it is his signature precedes. Mexico, fourteenth of December of nineteen hundred and three. Josie Algaco without a fancy signature. A blue seal that states: “Secretary of Exterior Relations. Mexico.”