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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 "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Know Ye, that Albion K. Parris, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability and learning of Simon Greenleaf, of Portland, in the County of Cumberland, Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the same Simon Greenleaf, Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court:

We, therefore, do hereby authorise [authorize] and empower him to fulfil 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 Simon Greenleaf, 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 tenth day of September, 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 11th 1824,

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State of Maine.

County of Cumberland ss: On the eleventh day of September A.D. 1824, personally appears Simon Greenleaf of Portland 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 duties of the Office of Reporter of the Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court within the State aforesaid, to which he was appointed and Commissioned on the tenth day of September A. D. 1824. Before me Daniel Wood one of the council

Recorded Sept 20th. 1828 by Secretary of State