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State of Maine.

To all who shall see these Presents:

Greeting:

[to the left “Samuel E. Smith”] Know Ye, That Samuel E. Smith, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability and discretion, of David Winslow, of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said David Winslow, Inspector General of Beef and Pork, for the State of Maine.

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 David Winslow, 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 eighteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty one; and of the Independence of the United States the fifty fifth.

By the Governor:

Roscoe G. Greene, Secretary of State.

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State of Maine

Council Chamber Portland. On the nineteenth day of March AD. 1831. personally appeared David Winslow of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland and took and subscribed the oaths by affirmation 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 Inspector General of Beef and Pork for the State aforesaid, to which he was appointed an [and] commissioned, on the nineteenth day of March AD. 1831.

Before me Hez[ekiah] Prince one of the Council

Received and Recorded March 19. 1831. by R.G. Greene Secretary of State