To His Excellency The Governor of The Commonwealth of Ky.

Your Petitioner Joseph Riley a citizen of Greenup County Ky. would represent that on the 3^rd day of February 1865, he was fined before John Seaton Judge of the Greenup County Court, Sixty Dollars for Keeping a tipling house; also, on the same day before said Judge he was fined fifty dollars for selling liquor to a minor; also on the same day before said Judge he was fined One hundred dollars for twice selling liquor to a minor; Also on the same day before the same Judge he was fined fifty dollars for selling liquor to a minor. Also on the same day before the same Judge he was fined fifty dollars for selling liquor to a minor, also on the same day before the same Judge he was fined by the same Judge hewas fined fifty dollars for selling liquor to a minor.

He states that he had paid the United States Revenue tax for a license to retail liquors and was therefore under the impression that he was legally authorized to retail liquors. He also states that he has entirely abandoned the sale of liquors, and promises not to affend the law in the same manner again.

He is a poor man with a family dependent on his labor for their support, wherefore he asks your excellency to remit said fines or such of them as your excellency may think proper.

Josp M Riley

We the undersigned citizens of Greenup County Kentucky join with Joseph Riley in his prayer for a remission of the fines against him, named in his foregoing petition.

Ambrose Clarke
S E How
J F Spradlin
Saml. Ellis —
James Moore
Sam. Ellis, Jr.
John Coffman
James, P, Winter —
D O Winter
W. C. Ireland —
B. B. Roberts Assesor of GC
D. W. Lee
William Warnok
John B King cty att'y
for Greenup County Ky.
Nathan Mefford
James D Rankins
R Galbraith S. G. C.