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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 the Supreme Judicial Court, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts begun and holden at Augusta, within the County of Kennebec and for the Counties of Kennebec and Somerset, on the last tuesday of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, Asa Sawyer, late of Monmouth, in our said County of Kennebec, Yeoman, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny; and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by confinement to hard labor for the term of six months, within the precincts of the prison in the County of Kennebec, and that he pay costs of prosecution; which sentence has been fully executed: and he the said Asa Sawyer has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said Asa Sawyer; 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 twenty third day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five, and in the forty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of States [State],