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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 "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Whereas, before the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Castine, within the County of Hancock, and for the Counties of Hancock and Washington, on the second Tuesday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eight, James Grier, Laborer; was convicted of the crime of having in his custody and possession certain false forged and counterfeit Bills on Notes, with intent to pass the same as true; and thereupon by our said Court, was sentenced, on two Indictments, to suffer solitary imprisonment and confinement to hard labor within the State’s prison of said Commonwealth; which sentence, except such part thereof as was remitted by the Executive of said Commonwealth, has been fully executed; and he the said James Grier has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said James Grier, 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 eighth day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five; and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor;

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,