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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these presents shall come,

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Greeting:

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial court, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for our said County of Lincoln; on the third Tuesday of May, being the seventeenth day of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and twenty five, Joseph Trafton, of Camden, in our said County of Lincoln Yeoman, was convicted of the crime of Adultery, and thereupon by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment in our State Prison at Thomaston, for the term of three months, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of four years in said prison, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Joseph Trafton, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Joseph Trafton that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and Officers of every denominations are to take notice.

Witness Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council and our seal hereunto affixed at Portland the first day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,