Mary W. Smith and J. R. Newton to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-02-06
- Date of Creation
- February 6, 1864
- Place of Creation
- Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky
- Document Genre
- Petition
- Repository
- Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
- Collection
- Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
- Box / Folder
- BR9-336
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-0528
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- FTP Identifier
- 32203415
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Citation
Mary W. Smith and J. R. Newton to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-02-06, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-0528 (November 14, 2026).
Bowling Green Ky
To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette
Gov. State of Kentucky
Your petitioner Mary W. Smith, would respectfully represent, that she confessed a judgment for Sixty Dollars, upon an Indictment for keeping a tippling House, at the present term of the Warren Equity & Criminal Court- The facts of the case are these — She proposed to open a Hotel in the Town of Bowling Green and being a widow woman- employed a young man by name of J. R. Newton to attend to Her the business of said House and as such- to procure the necessary License for same, He obtained the municipal License for $150.00 and the United States License for $45.00 and thinking the License for keeping Said House complete, he failed to obtain the State License from the county Court ^$10.^ and never knew but what her License was complete, until she was indicted. She says she never intentionally violated the law and requests a remission of said fine at your hands —
M W Smith
J. R. Newton
Sworn to before me by Mary W. Smith and J. R. Newton this
Wm F Cooke Examiner
We the undersigned cheerfully unite with the petitioner in her prayer for the remission of the fine mentioned in the within
W. D. Helm
D. W. Wright
H H Skiles
J C [Mullins]
J. E. Halsell
Warren Co.
Relief Refused
Tho. E. Bramlette