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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 Court of Common pleas, begun and holden at Castine, within and for our County of Hancock, on the second Tuesday of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, Benjamin Thomas, resident in Castine, in our said County of Hancock, Laborer, was convicted of the Crime of Shop breaking &c, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of ninety days, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of three years, in and within the precincts of the State Prison, situated in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Benjamin Thomas has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Benjamin Thomas, two months of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed upon him by solitary imprisonment; 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 January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,