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6390. PARDONS, Conditions of.—[continued].
In all cases I have referred
petitions [for pardons] to the judges
and prosecuting attorney, who having heard
all the circumstances of the case, are the best
judges whether any of them were of such a
nature as ought to obtain for the criminal a
remission or abridgment of the punishment.—
To George Blake. Washington ed. v, 113.
(W.
1807)
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