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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 Castine, within and for our county of Hancock, on the fourth Tuesday of of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, Reuben Branard, of Northport, in our said County of Hancock, Yeoman, was convicted of the Crime of Adultery; and, thereupon, by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of one month, and afterward by confinement to hard labor for the term of one year, within the precincts of the State Prison, situate in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Reuben Branard has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now, Know Ye, that, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Reuben Branard, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed; 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 ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,