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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 Joel Wellington, of Albion Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said Joel Wellington, 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 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 all the powers, privileges and emoluments thereto of right appertaining, unto him the said Joel Wellington, 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, in Portland the twenty ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and of the Independence of the United States of the fifty second.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,

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State of Maine

County of Kennebec ss. On the third day of March [?] 1829, personally appeared Joel Wellington of Albion in said County of Kennebec, 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 Justice of the Peace & Quorum within and fore each of our Counties throughout the State, to which he was appointed and commissioned on the twenty ninth day of January [?] 1829

Before Me. G. A. Benson authorized by Dedimus Potestatum