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State of Maine.

To all to whom these presents shall come

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 learning of Erastus Foote, of Wiscasset in the County of Lincoln, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council appointed the said Erastus Foote, Esquire, our Attorney General:

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 Erastus Foote, 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 twenty fifth day of June, 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

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State of Maine.

County of Waldo ss: On the twelfth day of September A.D. 1828, personally appeared Erastus Foote of Wiscasset: in said County of Lincoln 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 Attorney General within & for the State aforesaid, to which he was appointed and Commissioned on the twenty fifth day of June, 1828

Before me, Jon[athan] Thayer[,] Charles Hutchings, Jr – Two members of the Council authorized by law

Recorded June 2 1831 By Secretary of State