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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, begun and holden at Portland, within and for our County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; John Alexander, late resident of Brunswick, in our said County of Cumberland, Laborer, was convicted of the Crime of make an aggravated and unprovoked Assault upon one Timothy Peters; and thereupon , by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by imprisonment for the term of three months, and to pay costs of prosecution taxed at seventy six dollars and sixty six cents, to be enforced, inflicted and fulfilled in the prison in the County of Cumberland; and he the said John Alexander has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said John Alexander the payment of the costs 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 ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor;

A: Nichols, Secy of State,