Matilda Joslyn Gage.
Fayetteville, N. Y.
ULYSSES S. GRANT,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
To all to whom those Presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas, at the June term, 1873, of the United States Circuit Court of the Northern District of New York, one Beverly W. Jones, one Edwin T. Marsh, and one William B. Hall were convicted of illegally registering certain persons as voters, and receiving their votes, and were sentenced each to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars,
And whereas, the Honorable H. A. Sargent asks that they be pardoned, in view of the peculiar circumstances of their offense,
Now, therefore, be it known, that I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, divers other good and sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, do hereby grant to the said Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, a full and unconditional pardon.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
[SEAL.]