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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these Presents shall come,

Greeting:

Whereas, before our Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden, at Portland, within and for our County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of October, being the fifth day of said month in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, George Vaughan, of Portland, in our said County of Cumberland, an infant under the age of twenty one years, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny; and, thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary confinement, for the term of two months, to be executed on him in and 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 George Vaughan 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 Vaughan that part of the punishment aforesaid that 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 third day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five; and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America:

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.