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State of Maine.

To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come,

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

Greeting:

Whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, began and holden at Portland within and for our County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of may, being the sixth day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; John Hodgkins 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 the three months, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of six months, within the precincts of the State’s Gaol in the said County of Cumberland; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said John Hodgkins, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, WE do hereby remit to him the said John Hodgkins, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed, and grant to him the said John Hodgkins, 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 the Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed at Portland the second day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and in the forty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the governor.

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.