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To His Excellency the
Right Honorable the Earl
of Mulgrave, Lieutenant
Governor of Nova Scotia
re re re
The Memorial of the Undersigned
Respectfully Sheweth

That in the last September Term of the
Supreme Court at Digby, Gabriel Meuse having
pleaded Guilty to an indictment preferred
against him for perjury, was sentenced to be
imprisoned for one year in the Provincial
penitentiary. Your Memorialists, from what
took place at the Trial, feel that the accused
under the pressure of extreme poverty, yielded to strong
temptation, and that the circumstances greatly
mitigated the offence with which he was charged.

Your Memorialists would therefore
respectfully request that Your Excellency would
be pleased to take the case of the prisoner into
your favorable consideration, and to remit a
portion of the sentence passed upon him by