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there finding their health impaired; they most humbly solicit that something may be done in their behalf, through Your Excellency's humane consideration.

Your humble Petitioners under these circumstances do beg that Your Excellency be pleased to pardon the freedom they have adopted in addressing you to your mercy. In appealing to you for mercy, Petitioners beg to state that they are Tradesmen, and have formerly sustained unblemished character, and have power to obtain their upright and honest livelihood.

It should it graciously please your Excellency to grant a free pardon here, so that they may be placed in a channel to retrieve that which they have lost, and in time become useful members of Society instead of outcasts. Imploring Your Excellency's merciful consideration.

Your Petitioners pray. duty bound will ever (Signed) James Whitton. William Vance.

(Stone Copy)

Macie Colonial Secretary.

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be there finding their health impaired; they most humbly solicit that something may be done in their behalf, through Your Excellency's humane consideration. Your humble Petitioners under these circumstances do beg that Your Excellency be pleased to pardon the freedom they have adopted in addressing you to your mercy. In appealing to you for mercy, Petitioners beg to state that they are Tradesmen, and have formerly sustained unblemished character, and have power to obtain their upright and honest livelihood. It should it graciously please your Excellency to grant a free pardon here, so that they may be placed in a channel to retrieve that which they have lost, and in time become useful members of Society instead of outcasts. Imploring Your Excellency's merciful consideration. Your Petitioners pray. duty bound will ever (Signed) James Whitton. William Vance. (Stone Copy) Macie Colonial Secretary. Page 360
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(Signed) James Whitton.

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William Vance.

(Stone Copy)

Macie

Colonial Secretary.

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