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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 Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Portland, within and for our County of Cumberland on the first tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five; Austin Seymore, of Portland in our said County of Cumberland, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny on two Indictments and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by Solitary imprisonment for the term of one hundred and twenty days, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of two years, in and within the precincts of the State Prison, situated in Thomaston in the County of Lincoln; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Austin Seymore, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Austin Seymore, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed on him by solitary imprisonment; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates and Officers of every denomination 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 twenty seventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; and in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America

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