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State of Maine.

To all who shall see these presents.

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Greeting.

Know Ye, That Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability, and discretion of Daniel rose, of Augusta, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed, the said Daniel Rose, 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 that 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 of right appertaining, unto him the said Daniel Rose, Esquire, 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 twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and twenty nine; and of the Independence of the United States the fifty third.

By the Governor,

Edward Russell. Secretary of State.

Qualified March 7th 1829 Before one of the Council

Vol. 1. Number 95.