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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these Presents shall come,

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

Greeting:

Whereas, before the Justices of our Supreme Judicial Court, held at Augusta, within and for the County of Kennebec, on the fourth tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, Jacob Hussey, late resident at Vassalborough, in our said County of Kennebec, was convicted of the crime of forgery and altering: And thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to suffer solitary imprisonment, for the term of ten days, and afterwards to be confined to hard for the term of two years and six months within the precincts of the Gaol at Augusta; part of which sentence remains to be executed; And he the said Jacob Hussey has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to him the said Jacob Hussey that part of the punishment aforesaid which remains to be executed; and grant to him the said Jacob Hussey 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 eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty seventh.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.