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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 Augusta, within and for our County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twent four; Samuel Wood, late resident of Leeds, in our said County of Kennebec, Laborer, was convicted of the crime of uttering and passing as true, a false, forged and counterfeit Bank note of the Boston Bank; also of having in his possession a certain false, forged and counterfeit Bank Bill or promissory note, purporting to be a Bank note of the Essex Bank, with intent to pass the same as current; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment, in the State Prison, situate in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln, for the term of six months; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Samuel Wood, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now, Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Samuel Wood, 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, Albion K. Parris, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the seventeenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five; and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor: A: Nichols, Secretary of State,