Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States of America.
To all whom it may concern:
An Exequatur bearing date the third day of May, 1850, having been issued to Charles Hunt, a citizen of the United States, recognizing him as Consul of Belgium, for Saint Louis, Missouri, and declaring him free to exercise and enjoy such functions, powers, and privileges, as are allowed to the Consuls of the most favored nations in the United States; and the said Hunt having sought to screen himself from his military duty to his country in consequence of thus being invested with the Consular functions of a foreign power in the United States, it is deemed advisable that the said Charles Hunt should no longer be permitted to continue in the exercise of said functions, powers, and privileges:
These are, therefore, to declare, that I no longer recognize the said Charles Hunt as Consul of Belgium for Saint Louis, Missouri, and will not permit him to exercise or enjoy any of the functions, powers or privileges allowed to Consuls of that Nation; and that I do hereby wholly revoke and annul the said Exequatur heretofore given, and do declare the same to be absolutely null and void, from this day forward.
In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the Seal of the United States of America to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand at Washington, this Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord 1864, and the Independence of the United States of America the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.