The Pennsyvania Supreme Executive Council to John Walker (unpublished)
In the Name and by the Authority of the Freemen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Supreme Executive Council of the said Commonwealth,

To John Walker of the County of Cumberland Gentleman, Greeting: Know that, reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, integrity, and ability, We Have nominated and appointed, And Do by these Presents, nominate and appoint you, the said John Walker to be Coroner of the said County of Cumberland within the said Commonwealth; giving, and hereby granting unto you full power and authority to execute and discharge the said office of Coroner for the said County of Cumberland in every part and branch thereof, according to the laws of the said commonwealth. To hold, exercise, and enjoy the said office, with all the profits, perquisites, and advantage thereunto belonging, or accruing therefrom, until your term expire, you behaving yourself well so long in the said office. In Testimony whereof, We have caused the seal of the commonwealth to be hereunto affixed.

Given at Philadelphia, the twentieth Day of October Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and eighty seven
Attest

James Trimble

for John Armstrong junr. Secry. Entered in the Office for Recording of Deeds in and for Cumberland County in the Borough of Carlisle the 25th of December 1787 in Book H. Vol. 1st. Pa 472 Certified [under] my hand and Seal of Office

[signed in left margin:] B Franklin

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