STATE OF MAINE. TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING. Know ve, That John F airfield, our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability and discretion of Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and 13, consent of the Council, appointed the said pp33 one aid lo no William Mebelle has cloof bas to wel bas Esquire, to be one of our Justices of the Prace, for the JUM anorde idea County of Humorek We therefore do hereby authorize and empower him to fulfit 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 the conservation of the same; and to have and to hold the said Office, together with all the powers, privileges and emoluments thereto of night appertaining unto him the said Esquire, for the term of Seven Years, if he shall so long behave himself well in said Office. Xn 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 AUGUSTA, the twenty eighttomy of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty- two and of the Independence of the United States the sixty- siti BY the Governor Shilipube Johnson Secretary of State.