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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, holden at Bangor; within and for the County of Penobscot, on the first Tuesday of January, (being the sixth day of said month) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, Elias Inman, of Orono, in our said County of Penobscot, Yeoman, was convicted of the crime of Larceny; and thereupon, by our said Court, was sentenced on the said conviction, to be punished by solitary imprisonment, for the term of thirty days, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of nine months; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Elias Inman, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Elias Inman, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed; and grant to him the said Elias Inman, 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 eighth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four; and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State.