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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 Wiscasset, in and for the county of Lincoln, on the third tuesday of May, (being the twentieth day of said month,) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, Charles C. Trefthen, late resident of Woolwich, in our said County of Lincoln, Laborer, 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 in the Gaol of said County of Lincoln for the term of two months; and by confinement to hard labor in said Gaol for the term of eighteen months afterwards, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said Charles C. Trefethen, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Charles C. Trefethen, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed, and grant to him the said Charles C. Trefethen, 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 ninth 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,