We, the subscribers, do humbly certify, that the within Petitioner, John Brown, was tried before us, that he had Counsel assigned him in his challenges and to make his defence, and upon a fair hearing was convicted by an impartial jury, on evidence entirely satisfactory to us; that he was informed, that instead of the sentence of death, he was intitled to crave the punishment inflicted for such an offence by the Act of Assembly for the amendment of the penal Laws of this Stae, and that against the earnest recommendations of the court to do so, he obstinately refused, and insisted for the sentence under the former Laws being pronounced against him, which was at length passed.

We conceive it proper to inform Council that the Petitioner is an old Offender, and was pardoned in the year 1785 for a Burglary, in order that they may the better be enabled to determine upon the length of time he ought to labour for the Public on condition of a Pardon, to which indulgence We have no particular objections.