To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come

STATE OF MAINE

To all to whom these Presents shall come,

GREETING

Know ye, That Lot M. Morrill

our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the sobriety, discretion, and

piety of

John W. Lewis

of Warren, A Licensed Minister of the

Gospel, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of our Council,

[State Seal, Lot M. Morrill signature] appointed the said John W. Lewis

to Solemnize Marriages in each and every of our Counties within the State:

We therefore do hereby authorize and empower him to fulfill the duties of that office

according to law; and to have and to hold the said office, together with all the powers, privileges, and

emoluments thereto of right appertaining, to him the said John W Lewis

during the pleasure of our Governor 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 Augusta, the first

day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight

hundred and fifty-eight and of the Independence of the United

States the eighty-second

BY THE GOVERNOR,

Noah Smith Secretary of State

[Border Line]

County of Lincoln Ss.

On the thirteenth day of September A.D. 1858, personally appeared

John W Lewis of Warren in said County

of Lincoln and took the subscribed oaths prescribed by the Constitution

of this State and a Law of the United States, to qualify him to discharge and execute the trusts

reposed in him by his appointment and commission authorizing him to SOLEMNIZE MARRIAGES in each

and every County within the State, made and issued July 1 1858.

John Ruggles [signed] {Authorized by Dedimus Potestatem

Received and recorded September 18 1858, by

Noah Smith Jr [signed] Secretary of State