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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 Ezekiel Brown, Junior, Esquire, one of the Justices of the Peace, for the County of Kennebec, then in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Oliver Winn, of Clinton, in said County of Kennebec, a minor, under the age of twenty one years, was convicted of the Crime of theft; and thereupon by said Justice was sentenced to pay a fine, for the use of said Commonwealth of two dollars, and costs of prosecution, taxed at five dollars and ninety seven cents; which sentence has been performed; and he the said Oliver Winn, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now, Know Ye, that, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby grant to him the said Oliver Winn, 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 six; and in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor,

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,