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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 discretion of Luke Lambard, of Bath, Esquire, hath nominated, and, by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Luke Lambard, Inspector of Butter and Lard for our State:

We, therefore, do hereby authorise [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 Luke Lambard, 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 second day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; and of the Independence of the United States the fiftieth.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State

Qualified July 17. 1826. State of Maine

County of Lincoln ss: On the seventeenth day of July A.D. 1826, personally appeared Luke Lambard of Bath 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 duties of the Office of Inspector of Butter & Lard within and for the State aforesaid to which he was appointed and commissioned on the twenty second day of June A.D. 1826. Before me, Benjamin Ames, Authorized by Dedimus Potestatum,

Recorded Sept 20th 1828, By Secretary of State