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Harry Truman: “I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States, pursuant to section 42 of…”

On the recordApril 17, 1952
I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to affix the Seal of the United States, pursuant to section 42 of title 4 of the United States Code, without any special warrant therefor, other than this order, to each document included within any of the following classes of documents when such document has been signed by the President and, in the case of any such document to which the counter-signature of the Secretary of State is required to be affixed, has been counter-signed by the said Secretary.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri
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presidency.ucsb.edu

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Executive Order 10347—Providing for the Affixing of the Seal of the United States to Certain Presidential Documents

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