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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 the county of Cumberland on the first Tuesday of May, being the second day of said month, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six: Washington Hall, of Portland in our said county of Cumberland, Barber, was convicted of the Crime of an Assault with intent to ravish, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of one month, and by confinement afterwards to hard labor for the term of five years, and that this sentence be executed upon him in and within the precincts of the State Prison situate in Thomaston in the County of Lincoln, and he the said Washington Hall, has humbly supplicated Us for mercy:

Now Know Ye, That, upon full consideration of the premises, We do hereby remit to him the said Washington Hall, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed upon him in solitary confinement; 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 tenth day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; and in the fifty third year of Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State.