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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 John Balkham, of Robbinston, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed, the said John Balkam, 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 the 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 appertaining unto him the said John Balkam, Esqr. 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 third day of March, 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 Washington ss: On the twelfth day of March A.D. 1830, personally appeared John Balkam of Robbinston in said County of Wahsington 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 & Quorum, within and for the County aforesaid and through the State, to which he was appointed & Commissioned on the third day of March A.D. 1830. Before me John Brewer Authorized by Dedimus Potestatum