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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 Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Norridgewock, within and for the County of Somerset, on the first Tuesday of June, being the sixth day of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; Asa L. Stiles, late resident of Fairfield in our said County of Somerset, laborer, was convicted of the Crime of Forgery; an thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of fifteen days, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of four years, in our State Prison at Thomaston, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Asa L. Stiles, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now know ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Asa L. Stiles, 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 Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council and our seal hereunto affixed at Portland the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight and in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,