.MTU1Mg.MTc1MjM

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 Tuesday of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three, George Rogers of Bowdoin, in our said County of Lincoln, was convicted of the crime of passing as true, one false, forged and counterfeit Bank for five dollars; and also for having brought into, and having in his profession within this State, with intent to render current and pass as true, five other false, forged and counterfeit Bank Bills of the Bank of the United States; and, thereupon, by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the Gaol of our said County, for three months; and afterwards by confinement to hard labor in said Gaol for the term of three years; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said George Rogers, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, that, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said George Rogers, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed; and grant to him the said George Rogers 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 seventeenth day of November, 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,