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To His Excellency William King, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Militia of Maine.

We the undersigned commissioned Officers of the first Regiment and first Brigade, and eighth Division of the Militia of the State of Maine, beg leave to remonstrate to your Excellency against the election of Major Edward Swan as a [one struck through] Colonel, Captain Arthur Plumer as Lieutenant Colonel and Captain William Clark as Major of the said Regiment, which election took place at Captain Moses Palmer's tavern in Hallowell, on Thursday the twenty fifth day of May in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and twenty, whereof Colonel Jesse Robinson was presiding Officer. And we offer the following reasons for such remonstrance, to wit: --

1. For that in each of the companies commanded by Captain Stevens Smith and Captain Oliver Wyman, there was a deficiency of one subaltern at the time of said election.

2. For that there has been an election of commissioned officers in the north company of Pittston and likewise in the Company