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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 Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Portland, within and for our said County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of march, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six, Dorcas Battesby, otherwise called Dorcas Palmer, late resident of Portland, in our said County of Cumberland, spinster, 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 six months, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of our year, within the precincts of the State Prison, situated in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln; and she the said Dorcas has humbly supplicated Us for mercy

Now, Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to her the said Dorcas, 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, Secy of State