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

Paris Peace Conf. 184.001/3

Form of Commission of Individual Commissioners Plenipotentiary

Woodrow Wilson ,

President of the United States of America,

To all who shall see these presents, greeting:

Know Ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the Integrity and Ability of Robert Lansing , of New York, I do appoint him as a Commissioner Plenipotentiary of the United States of America To Negotiate Peace, and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfill the duties of that Office according to law, and to have and to hold the said Office, with all the powers, privileges and emoluments thereunto of right appertaining unto him the said Robert Lansing , during the pleasure of the President of the United States.

In testimony whereof, I have caused these Letters to be made Patent and the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

[seal] Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and forty-third.

Woodrow Wilson

By the President:
Robert Lansing ,
Secretary of State.