[ Autograph ] Chester A. Arthur 1829-1886 Twenty-first President of the United States who took office following the assassination of James Garfield. Unusual manuscript D.S. "Chester A. Arthur' as President, lp. sm. folio, Washington, May 11, 1883 In part: "Green B.Raum having resigned his Office as Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the resignation having been accepted I do hereby authorize John Jay Knox to take charge of that Office, and perform the duties of thesame... " Green B. Raum 1829-1909 had served as a Union brigadier general who valiantly led a bayonet charge at Corinth. One fold splitcarefully reinforced on verso, light soiling, otherwise very good.