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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 "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court begun and held at Alfred, within and for the County of York, on the third tuesday of September, being, the twentieth day of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, Lewis Martin, late resident of Alfred in our County of York laborer, 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 twenty days, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of Five years, and that this sentence be executed upon him in the States Prison, in Thomaston in the County of Lincoln, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed, and he the said Lewis Martin, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Lewis Martin 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 fifth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State