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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these presents shall come,

Greeting:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Whereas before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Castine, within and for our County of Hancock, on the third tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, William Dyer, of , in our said County of , was convicted of the Crime of Larceny; but has not, as yet received the sentence of our said Court: And he the said William Dyer, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now, Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said William Dyer, a full and free Pardon of the Crime aforesaid; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates and Officers of every denomination are to take notice.

Witness Albion K. Parris, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the twenty first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and twenty six; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,