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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 Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Portland, within and for our County of Cumberland, on the third Tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, John Foster, Junior, of Portland, in our said County of Cumberland, Schoolmaster, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of thirty days; and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of one year; in and within the State Prison, situate in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said John Foster, Junior, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, that, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said John Foster, Junior, that part of the punishment aforesaid, yet remaining to be executed by solitary imprisonment; 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 ninth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five; and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State