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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 Portland, within and for the County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of May, (being the seventh day of said month,) in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty two, Edward Sawyer, of Portland, in our said County of Cumberland, laborer, was convicted of the crime of Larceny ; and, thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of twenty days; and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of six months, within the precincts of the State’s gaol, in the county of Cumberland; and he the said Edward Sawyer, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to him, the said Edward Sawyer that part of the punishment aforesaid, which remains to be executed; and grant to him, the said Edward Sawyer, 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 tenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty two; and in the forty seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A. Nichols, Deputy Secretary of State.