State of Kentucky
County of Butler Sct

State To his Excellency
The Honorable Thomas E Bramlett
Governor of Ky

Your undersigned Adaline Whitaker petitioner — respectfully asks of your excellency to remit a fine of $20 impossed upon her by a Judgment of the Court of W R Beesley ^a Justice of the peace for Butler County Ky^ on the [...] day of April 1864 — she states that she is very poor and needy being a widow with three children, that her husband Thomas E Whitaker was a member of the Eleventh Reg Ky Vol Commanded by Col Hawkins and died in the Army at Nashville Tennessee from disease contracted in the service and left her in a destitute condition — and she further states that said verdict was entirely unsustained by the proof of any ^of^ circumstances connected with the case she therefore prays that said fine be remitted

Adaline Whitaker —

Sworn to before me by Adaline Whitaker this 14 day of June 1864

— J B Smith J P B C

We the Undersigned state that we are acquainted with M^rs Adaline Whitaker and believe the statements she has made to be correct and know that she is an industrious honest lady therefore pray your excellency to remit the above fine against her

Butler Cir Ct
vs
M^rs A. Whitaker
$30
6^th Aug/64

Remit