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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 "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Whereas, before our Justices of our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for our County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of October, (being the second day of said month) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven: Ira Spofford of in our County of was convicted of the Crime of uttering forged notes; and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by confinement to hard labor for the term of two years 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 Ira Spofford has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now know ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Ira Spofford, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed; and grant to him the said Ira Spofford a full and free Pardon of the Crime aforesaid; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and Officers of every denomination are to take notice.

Witness, Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the twenty fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; and in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.