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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 Court of Common Pleas, begun and holden at Portland within and for the County of Cumberland, on the first tuesday October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; Sarah Dennison, of Portland in our said County of Cumberland was convicted of the Crime of Assault and Battery, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by imprisonment for the term of sixty days, and pay costs of prosecution, taxed at forty two dollars and thirty one cents, and recognize herself in the sum of four hundred dollars, with two sufficient sureties in the sum of two hundred dollars each to keep the peace and be of good behaviour [behavior] for the term of Five years, an dthat she stand committeed until sentence be performed, and she the said Sarah Dennison has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to her the said Sarah Dennison; that part of the punishement aforesaid which now remains to be executed; 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 first day of January, 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,