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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 November, being the second day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, John Anderson, late resident of Harpswell, in our said County of Cumberland, Mariner, 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 fifty days, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor, for the term of two years and three months in and within the precincts of the State Prison, in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed: and he the said John Anderson, 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 Anderson, 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 November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,