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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 Norridgewock, within and for our County of Somerset, on the first Tuesday of June, being the fourth day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, Hosea Paul, late resident of Phillips, in our said County of Somerset, yeoman, was convicted of the Crime of willful and corrupt Perjury; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for thirty days, and afterwards confined to hard labor for the space of two years, in and within the precincts of the common gaol in Norridgewock, in said County of Somerset; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Hosea Paul, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now know ye, that, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to him the said Hosea Paul, 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 second day of October, 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.