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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 our Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Bangor, within and for the County of Penobscot, on the first Tuesday of October, (being the first day of said month,) in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, George W. Gordon, of Bangor, in our said County of Penobscot, Laborer, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced on the said Conviction to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of thirty days, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of two years, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said George W. Gordon 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 W. Gordon, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed, and grant to him the said George W. Gordon 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 twenty sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and in the forty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,