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State of Maine

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

[to the left is a circle with the word "Seal" written inside and "Albion K. Parris" underneath]

Greeting:

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for our County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, John Wall, Junior, and David Wall, Junior, of St. George, in our said County of Lincoln, minors, were convicted of the crime of breaking a vessel, and committing Larceny therein; and thereupon, by our said Court, were sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of ten days, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of nine months in the common gaol, in the county of Lincoln; a part of which sentence remains unexecuted: And they the said John and David, have humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to them the said John and David that part of the punishment, aforesaid, that remains to be executed; and grant to them the said John and David, 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 Albion K. Parris, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty two; and in the forty sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor;

Ashur Ware, Secretary of State.