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State of Maine
To all who shall see these Presents,
Greeting:
[to the left is a circle with the word "Seal." underlined inside it and "Albion K Parris" under it]
Know ye, That Albion K. Parris, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability and discretion of Mark Harris, of Portland, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Mark Harris, 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 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 Mark Harris, 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 first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and of the Independence of the United States the forty seventh.
By the Governor,
A. Nichols, Secretary of State.
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State of Maine.
County of Cumberland ss: on the twentieth day of July A. D. 1827, personally appeared Mark Harris of Portland in said 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 and execute the duties of the Office of Justice of the Peace and Quorum throughout the State within and for the County aforesaid to which he was appointed and commissioned on the twenty first day of January A. D. 1823.
Before me Wm T. Daughan, Authorized by Dedimus Potestatum
Recorded Sept 20th 1828 By Secretary of State