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6389. PARDONS, Conditions of.—

I have
made it a rule to grant no pardon in any criminal
case but on the recommendation of the


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judges who sat on the trial, and the district
attorney, or two of them. I believe it a sound
rule, and not to be departed from but in extraordinary
cases.—
To Albert Gallatin. Ford ed., viii, 465.
(M. 1806)