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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 holden at Alfred, within and for the County of York, on the fourth Tuesday of August in the year of our Lord; one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, William Randall, of Waterborough, in our County of York, Cordwainer, was convicted of the Crime of taking and receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be so stolen, and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced on the said conviction; to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of three months; and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of one year; which sentence has been fully executed and he the said William Randall has humbly supplicated us for mercy.

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said William Randall 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 April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and in the forty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,