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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, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for our county of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five; David Brown, of Bowdoin, in our said County of Lincoln, trader, was convicted of the Crime of Lewd and Lascivious Cohabitation, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment, one month, and confinement afterwards, to hard labor, for the term of eighteen months, in the States Prison, situate in Thomaston in the County of Lincoln; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said David Brown has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now, know ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said David Brown, all 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 twenty first day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty six; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,