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Albion K. Parris,

Governor of the State of Maine,

To all who shall see these Presents,

Greeting:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Know ye, That Joseph F. Wingate, of Bath, in the County of Lincoln, Esquire, on the eleventh day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; 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, 1827, 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 twenty fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,