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State of Maine.

To all persons to whom these presents shall come,

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

Greeting:

whereas, before our Supreme Judicial Court, begun and holden at Portland, within and for our County of Cumberland, on the first Tuesday of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four, John McLeane, late resident of Portland, in our said County of Cumberland, Laborer, 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 one hundred and fifty days, and afterwards by confinement to hard labor for the term of three years, within the precincts of the State Prison, in Thomaston, in the County of Lincoln; a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed; and he the said John McLeane, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy.

Now, Know Ye, that, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said John McLeane, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed on him by solitary imprisonment; of which all our Judges, Justices, Magistrates, and Officers of every denomination are to take notice.

Witness Enoch Lincoln, our Governor, with the advice and consent of our Council, and our Seal hereunto affixed, at Portland, the twenty third day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven; and in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State