I read the document as follows:
Post Office Department
Henry C. Payne
Postmaster General of the United States of America
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas, on the 2nd day of August, 1904, James K. Mixson was appointed
Postmaster at Flemington,in the county of Marion, State of Florida,
and whereas he did on the 9th day of August, 1904, execute a Bond and
has taken the Oath of Office as required by law:
Now know ye, That confiding in the integrity, ability and punctuality
of said James K. Mixson I do commission him a Postmaster, authorized
to execute the duties of that Office at Flemington aforesaid, according
to the laws of the United States and the Regulations of the Post Office
Department. To hold the said office of Postmaster, with all the powers,
privileges, and emoluments to the same belonging during the pleasure of
the Postmaster General of the United States.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the Post Office Department to be affixed,at
Seal Washington City, this eighteenth day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand ninehundred and four, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty ninth.
HC Payne
Postmaster General
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