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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 County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, Ruth Seymore, of Portland, in our said County of Cumberland, Spinster, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny, on two Indictments; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced, on said two Indictments, to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of one hundred and twenty days, and afterwards 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 she the said Ruth Seymore has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now, Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to her the said Ruth Seymore; 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,