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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 "Jonathan G. Hunton” written under it]

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Wiscasset, in and for the County of Lincoln, 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, Samuel Heath, of Newcastle, in our said county of Lincoln, Labourer [Laborer], was convicted of the Crime of Manslaughter, and thereupon by our said court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment five months and by confinement afterwards to hard labour [labor] for the term of eight years, this sentence to be executed upon him in and within the precincts of the State Prison situate in Thomaston, in the county of Lincoln, and he the said Samuel Heath 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 heath, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed upon him; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and officers of every denomination are to take notice.

Witness, Jonathan G. Hunton, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the first day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty; and in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State.