Lewis Bene to Thomas E. Bramlette
1864-03-02
- Date of Creation
- March 2, 1864
- Place of Creation
- Fayette 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
- BR9-467
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-0609
- Rights
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- FTP Identifier
- 32203496
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Citation
Lewis Bene to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1864-03-02, 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-0001-004-0609 (November 14, 2026).
To his Excellency the Governor of Kentucky,
Your petitioner would respectfully represent that at the last term of the Fayette Circuit Court he was fined the sum of Two hundred dollars for permitting gaming on premises occupied by him of which offense he says heisnotquilty,infact although he may be in law, He states further that he ^is^ now workingout said fine at two dollars per day and the Commonwealth is paying for his accomodations the sum of fiftycents per day — He says he is not doing the Commonwealth nor any one else any good, and says he is desirous of enlisting in the 6th Ky. Cavalry as a private soldier. Wherefor he prays that his fine may be remitted.
Lewis Bene
Sworn to before me by Lewis Bene this
Will A. Stivers N. P.
{W. A. STIVERS
NOTARY
PUBLIC
FAYETTE COUNTY, KY.}
The undersigned unite in the prayer
of the petitioner, and respectfully ask that he be [...]
Jno B Huston
W C Goodloe
W. P. Downey
Fayette Cir Ct
vs
Lewis Bene
Respite for 6 months
$200-
&
Remitted on the