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State of Maine.

To all who shall see these Presents:

Greeting:

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

Know Ye, That Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity ability and discretion of Joshua Chamberlain of Brewer, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Joshua Chamberlain, Esquire, one of the Agents for the Penobscot Tribe of Indians, under the Act of the fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.

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 Joshua Chamberlain, Esquire, 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 second day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and of the Independence of the United States the fifty second.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,

State of Maine.

County of Penobscot ss: On the fourteenth day of July A.D. 1828, personally appeared Joshua Chamberlain, of Brewer, in said County of Penobscot and took and subscribed the Oaths prescribed by the Constitution of this State and a law of the United States to qualify him to discharge and execute the Office of one of the Agents of the Penobscot tribe of Indians to which he was appointed on the second day of July A.D. 1828.

Before me Wm D. Williamson[,] Authorized by Dedimus Potestatum

Recorded Nov 5. 1828

By Secy of State