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State of Maine.

To all who shall see these Presents,

Greeting:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Know ye That Enoch Lincoln, our Governor reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity ability and discretion of Amos Patten, of Bangor, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Amos Patten, Esquire, to be one of our Justices of the Peace and of the Quorum, within and for each and every of our Counties, through the State

We therefore do hereby authorize and empower him to fulfil [fulfill] the duties of that Office, according to law; to cause to be kept the Laws and Ordinances made for the good of the peace and for the conservation of the same; and to have and to hold the said Office, together with all the powers, privileges and emoluments thereto of right appertaining, unto him the said Amos Patten, Esquire, for the term of seven years, if he shall so long behave himself well in said Office.

In testimony whereof, We have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and our Seal to be hereunto affixed. Witness our Governor at the Council Chamber in Portland, the twenty ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and of the Independence of the United States the fifty second.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,

State of Maine

County of Penobscot ss on the third day of March A.D. 2818 personally appeared Amos Patten of Bangor in said County of Penobscot and took and subscribed the oaths, prescribed by the Constitution of this State and a law of the United States to qualify him to discharge and execute the duties of the office of Justice of the Peace throughout the State to which he was appointed and commissioned on the twenty ninth day of January A.D. 1828, Before me Isaac Hodgdon Authorized by Dedimus Potestatum

Received and Recorded November 11, 1831 by Secretary of State