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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, begun and holden at Augusta, within and for our County of Kennebec, on the second Tuesday of April, being the thirteenth day of said month, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, Robert K. Whidden, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny on two Indictments, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of forty five days, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of twelve months, in the State’s Prison, in the County of Kennebec; the greater part of which has been executed; and he the said Robert K. Whidden has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now, Know Ye, that upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Robert K. Whidden, that part of the punishment aforesaid, which yet remains to be executed; 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 thirteenth day of June, 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 State,