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State of Maine

To all who shall see these Presents,

Greeting:

[to the left of the following paragraph is a circle with the word "Seal." underlined inside it and "Albion K. Parris” written under it]

Know ye, That Albion K. Parris our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity ability and learning of Samuel E. Smith, of Wiscasset, in the County of Lincoln, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Samuel E. Smith, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, of 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 Samuel E. Smith, during his good behavior, but not beyond the age of seventy years.

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 first day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two; and of the Independence of the United States the forty sixth.

By the Governor.

Ashur Ware, Secretary of State.

Qualified, April 2, 1822

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State of Maine

Lincoln ss.[?] April 2nd, 1822

I certify that on this day, personally appeared Samuel E. Smith, Esq. and took and subscribed the oaths and declarations prescribed by the Constitution of this State & a Law of the United States, to qualify him to execute the trust reposed in him by his commission of Justice of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Maine.

Jere Bailey, Authorized by Dedimus Potestatum

Sept 20 1828 Recorded by Secretary of State