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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 "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Whereas, before our Court of Common Pleas begun and holden at Castine within and for the County of Hancock, on the third Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, James Ryan, of Belfast, in our said County of Hancock, laborer, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of seventy five days, and by confinement afterwards to hard labour [labor] for the term of four years and six months in our State Prison at Thomaston in our County of Lincoln, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed, and he the said James Ryan has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said James Ryan, 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 Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed at Portland, the fifteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State