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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 "Jonathan G. Hunton” written under it]

Know Ye, That Jonathan G Hunton, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability and discretion of Simeon Stetson of Hampden, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Simeon Stetson, 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 Simeon Stetson, 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 fourth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and of the Independence of the United States the fifty fourth.

By the Governor

Edward Russell, Secretary of State.

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State of Maine.

County of Penobscot. ss. On the twenty ninth day of January A.D. 1831, personally appeared Simeon Stetson of Hampden 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 and Quorum within and for the County aforesaid, to which he was appointed and commissioned, on the 24th day of February A.D. 1830.

Before me Mr.[?] Kinsley authorized by Dedimus Potestatum