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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 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 four, John Jordan, of Wiscasset, in our said county of Lincoln, Laborer, was convicted of the Crime of Larceny, and thereupon by our said Court was sentenced to be punished by solitary imprisonment for the term of three months, and by confinement afterward to hard labor for the term of five years, in the State Prison at Thomaston, a part of which sentence yet remains to be executed, and he the said John Jordan, 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 Jordan, that part of the punishment aforesaid which yet remains to be executed upon 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 ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine: and in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

Edward Russell, Secretary of State.