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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, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, William Ellis, of Portland in our said County of Cumberland, Blacksmith, was convicted of the Crime of Shop-breaking and Larceny, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced on two Indictments, to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of two months, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of three years in the State’s Gaol in the County of Cumberland; a part of which sentence remains to be executed; and he the said William Ellis, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said William Ellis, that part of the punishment aforesaid; that remains to be executed in solitary imprisonment; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and officers of every denomination are to take notice.

Witness, Albion K. Parris, Esquire, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed at Portland, the twenty third day of November; in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,