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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 William D. Williamson, of Bangor, Esquire, hath nominated and by and with the advice and consent of our Council, appointed the said William D. Williamson, 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 in 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 William D. Williamson, 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 thirtieth day of June; in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and of the Independence of the United States the fifty fourth.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State

State of Maine

County of Penobscot ss On the eighth day of July A.D. 1830 personally appeared William D. Williamson of Bangor in said county of Penobscot 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 the duties of the office of Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum throughout the State to which he was appointed and commissioned on the thirtieth day of June AD 1830 Before me Allen Gilman Authorized by Dedimus Potestatum

Received and Recorded Nov 25. 1833 by Secretary of State