Hiram Laurence to Thomas E. Bramlette
- Place of Creation
- Lexington, 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
- BR13-14
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-004-1582
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- FTP Identifier
- 32204469
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Citation
Hiram Laurence 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-0001-004-1582 (November 14, 2026).
To His Excellency
Thomas E. Bramlette:
Governor of Kentucky:
Your Petitioner would respectfully state that at the [...] Term of the Lexington City Court ^for the year
That again at another Term of said court held for the month of [...]again tried upon a like charge at the suit of the Commonwealth and fined in the sum of Fifty Dollars & costs.
He states that he is a laboring man and has for the whole of the present winter has been confined at home suffering, beside intense and protracted physical pain, a great loss of time from his employment and great expense, that in consequence of these misfortunes he asks that your Excellency remit so much of the said fines as may be within the proper exercise of Executive clemency.
The fees and costs in these cases will be heavy and he respectfully asks a remission of the fines excepting these.
Hiram Lawrence —
We, the whose names are signed hereto would respectfully ask the Governor to remit the fines referred to within as we believe the facts stated to be true —
W T Scott
D. C Wickliffe
F. K, Hunt
J. F. Robinson jr
LCity Ct Lexington
vs
Lawrence, Hiram
to } Petition
His Excellency, the Govr
Remitted
Remit