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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 James Irish, or Gorham, Esquire, hath nominated and ______________ by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said James Irish, Esquire, Agent to superintend and manage the sale and settlement of the Public Lands, under the Act, entitled “An Act to promote the sale and settlement of Public Lands,” passed the twentieth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.

We therefore do hereby authorize and empower him, to fulfil [fulfill] ____ the duties of that Office according to law; and to have and to hold the same, together with all the powers, privileges and emoluments, thereto of right appertaining, unto him the said James Irish, Esquire, for the term of four years, if he shall so long behave himself well in said Office, unless sooner removed by the Governor and Council for the time being.

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 eighth day of March, 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,

(Number 74) Council Chamber

On the eight day of March A.D. 1828. Personally appeared James Irish of Gorham in the County of Cumberland 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 & execute the duties of the office of Land Agent, within and for the County aforesaid to which he was appointed & commissioned on the 8th of March A.D. 1828

Before Me Josiah Dunn, one of the Council

Recorded by Secy of State