.MTU1Mg.MTc0OTA

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 our Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at, Alfred, within and for our County of York, on the second Tuesday of February, being the eleventh day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; George March, of Kennebunkport in our said County of York, Yeoman, was convicted of the crime of Larceny, on three several Indictments; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced on the said three convictions, to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of sixty days; and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of eight months in the State’s Gaol in Alfred, in our said County of York; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said George March, has humbly supplicated us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises. We do hereby remit to him the said George March; that part of the punishment aforesaid; which yet remains to be executed; and grant to him the same George March, 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 seat hereunto affixed, at Portland; the eighteenth day of November, 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,