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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 "Jonathan G. Hunton” written under it]

Know Ye, That Jonathan G. Hunton our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability and discretion of Charles Hutchins Jun of Penobscot, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed, the said Charles Hutchins Jun 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 authorise [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 the powers, privileges and emoluments thereto of right appertaining, unto him the said Charles Hutchins Jr 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 fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, and of the Independence of the United States the fifty fouth

By the Governor:

Edward Russell; Secretary of State

State of Maine.

County of Cumberland ss. On the 19th day of March A.D. 1830, personally appeared Charles Hutchins Jun., of Penobscot in the County of Hancock and took and subscribed the oaths prescribed by the Constitution of this State, and a law of the United States, to qualify himself to discharge and execute the duties of the Office of Justice of the Peace & Quorum throughout the State to which he was appointed and commissioned on the fifteenth day of March A.D. 1830 Before me Leml[?] Paine One of the Council

Recorded March 19th 1830 By Secy of State