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Enoch Lincoln.

Governor of the State of Maine.

To all who shall see these presents,

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

Greeting.

Know ye, That James W. Ripley, of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford, Esquire, on the twenty second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight was chosen by the People of this State, legally qualified therefor, a Representative, to represent them in the Congress of the United States of America, for the term by the Constitution of said United States expressed, commencing with the fourth day of March, 1829, at the times and places, and in the manner, of holding elections, prescribed by our Legislature, agreeably to the powers therein vested by the Constitution aforesaid.

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand, at Portland, the thirteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine: and in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State.