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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 March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, William Sennett, late resident of Georgetown, in the County of Lincoln, Cordwainer, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny, on five several Indictments, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of one hundred and eighty days, and by confinement afterwards, to hard labor for the term of five years, within the precincts of the State’s Gaol, in the County of Cumberland; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said William Sennett, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said William Sennett, four months of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed upon him, by solitary imprisonment; 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 January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,