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State of Maine.

To all to whom these present shall come,

Greeting

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Know Ye, That Albion K. Parris, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability and discretion of Silas Estes, of Westbrook, in the County of Cumberland Esquire, hat nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Silas Estes, Inspector General of Beef and Pork:

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 Silas Estes, 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 hereunto affixed. Witness our Governor, at the Council Chamber, in Portland, the fifteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and of the Independence of the United States the forty ninth.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State;

Qualified Sept 7. 1824

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State of Maine

Council Chamber Portland. On the seventh day of September A.D. 1824. Personally appeared Silas Estes, of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland, and took and subscribed the affirmations 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 General Inspector of Beef and Pork within and for the State aforesaid to which he was appointed and commissioned

Before me Daniel Wood, one of the Executive Council of State

Recorded Sept 20. 1828. [?] Secretary of State