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Scope and Content Note

This series serves as a name index to the executive pardons, respites, commutations, restorations of citizenship, and certificates of good conduct found in series 13253. It likely indexes other record series created by the Department of State that document executive clemency actions, as well (see Related Material note). Each index entry provides the following information: name, type of clemency granted, date clemency granted, file number, crime (not always completed), date of conviction (not always completed), and county where convicted (not always completed).