Petition

R. W. Walker et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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
BR9-470 to BR9-471
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-0611
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FTP Identifier
32203498

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Dates
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1864-03-14
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R. W. Walker et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 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-0001-004-0611 (November 14, 2026).

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To His Excellency, the Governor of Kentucky.

Your petitioners respectfully represent that at the Feby term of the Hickman Circuit Court Thos T. Scott was fined sixty dollars for the alleged keeping of a Tippling house in the town of Baltimore, Hickman County Ky. The facts as elicited on the trial & heard by many of the undersigned are as follows — said Scott had regular license to keep a tavern in Baltimore, Ky, and under said license he kept a bar — but the tavern house was specifically named & described in said license. During the course of the year & pending the existence of the license said Scott moved his Tavern & bar to another house in said town not named in said license. Said Scott avers & your petitioners believe it to be true. That he was wholly ignorant that said removal would be an infringment of the law, and that he did not intend or design in any way to disregard the laws of his county. He avers that said removal was in no way detrimental to the public & did not operate as a violation of the spirit of the law, if it did so as to the strict letter thereof. He kept a decent and orderly house & in no way broke the condition of his bond as a tavern keeper except as above stated. He is a poor man and illy able to pay sixty dollars to the Commonwealth for a mere technical breach of law.

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Your Petitioners respectfully ask your Excellency to remit such portion of said fine as may be due to the Commonwealth if from the facts stated you regard such remission not inconsistent with your executive duty.

Yours respectfully
R. W. Walker
Thomas G. Poore Clk C C
E J Bullock
J J Tarver
Geo Beeler
Robt H Gathwill
Thos A Pennebaker
John Hoskins

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Hickman Cir Ct
vs
Thos T. Scott
Tipling
$60
Remtd14th Mch 1864