[PRINTED DECREE ACCOMPLISHED IN MANUSCRIPT AND SIGNED BY PRESIDENT BENITO JUAREZ, DECORATING A MEXICAN SOLDIER].

Printed decree, signed by President Benito Juarez, acknowledging the service of Captain Victor Aponte during the struggle with the Emperor Maximilian. This proclamation, headed by a large vignette of the Mexican national symbol of the eagle with a snake in its beak, was issued two months after the execution of Emperor Maximilian I and the restoration of the republican government. It is signed by three additional officials on the verso. In translation it reads: "In the name of the Republic, and as just tribute to the merit and valor of citizen Victor Aponte, who in the rank of infantry captain, fought against the French army and its allies.for having saved national independence, fighting against the foreign intervention, has earned the decoration of First Class created by the decree." Large engraved vignette at top of sheet. Large bifolium. Blank leaf backed with tissue. Printed leaf reinforced with tissue at top and bottom edges and center fold. Some minor loss at central horizontal fold. Good.…