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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 "Nathan Cutler” written under it]

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Norridgewock, within and for the County of Somerset, on the second Tuesday of June, being the ninth day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; Elisha Knowles, of Harmony in our said County of Somerset Physician, was convicted of the Crime of Assault and Battery, and thereupon by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by confinement in the State’s Gaol, in Norridgewock, in said County of Somerset, for the term of six months, and pay the costs of prosecution, taxed at seventy two dollars and thirty five cents; and he the said Elisha Knowles, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, that upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Elisha Knowles, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and Officers of every denomination are to take notice

Witness Nathan Cutler, President of our Senate, and exercising the Office of Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed at Portland the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the President of the Senate our said County of Somerset Physician, was convicted of the Crime of Assault and Battery, and thereupon by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by confinement in the State’s Gaol, in Norridgewock, in said County of Somerset, for the term of six months, and pay the costs of prosecution, taxed at seventy two dollars and thirty five cents; and he the said Elisha Knowles, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, that upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Elisha Knowles, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and Officers of every denomination are to take notice

Witness Nathan Cutler, President of our Senate, and exercising the Office of Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed at Portland the seventh day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the President of the Senate, exercising the Office of Governor,

Edward Russell, Secretary of State,