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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, James D Mosher, late resident in Gorham, in our said County of Cumberland, laborer, otherwise called James Mosher jun. of said Gorham, 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 one year, within the precincts of the State’s gaol, in the county of Cumberland; and he the said James D. Mosher, otherwise James Mosher Jun. has humbly supplicated us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to him the said James D. Mosher, that part of the punishment aforesaid which remains to be executed; and grant to him, the said James D. Mosher, otherwise called James Mosher Jun., that part of the punishment aforesaid, which remains to be executed; and grant to him the said James D. Mosher, otherwise James Mosher jun. 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 twenty eighth day of December, 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.