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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 "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Greeting:

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for our County of Kennebec, on the third Tuesday of September, being the seventeenth day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, Wentworth Seward, of Waterville, in our said County of Kennebec, was convicted of the crime of Horse Stealing; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of one month; and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of one year, in and within the State’s Gaol in our said County of Kennebec; a small part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Wentworth Seward, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to him the said Wentworth Seward, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed; and grant to him the said Wentworth Seward, a full and free pardon of the Crime aforesaid; 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 second day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and in the forty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor.

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.