COUNTERSIG

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  COUNTERSIGN. To countersign is to sign on the opposite side of an instrument 
  already signed by some other person or officer, in order to secure its 
  character of a genuine paper; as a bank note is signed by the president and 
  countersigned by the cashier.