Petition

B. M. Burdett et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

1865-03

Date of Creation
March 1865
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
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BR13-75
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1621
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1865-03
1865-03
1865-04-10
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B. M. Burdett et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette, 1865-03, 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-0001-004-1621 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners the undersigned would respectfully represent to your honor and state that, at the March term 1865 of the Pulaski Circuit Court, J. W. Adams and Moses Singleton were jointly fined the sum of two hundred dollars for the offense of permitting gaming in their house at Somerset Ky; and state that a judgment was entered at sd term of said court against the said Adams and Singleton by default; and that they had a good and legal defense to the charge made in the indictment and left the court house after the case was called with the understanding that the case was passed until the next morning it being the last case that was called on that day and that their counsel attorney in the case also left the court house with the same understanding; and state that by mistake and under a misapprehension the acting attorney for the commonwealth took a judgment for the aforesaid sum of $200~; and state that said Adams and Singleton are good citizens and keep a genteel, orderly and first-class house

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in Somerset Ky. In view of all which your petitioners hereby respectfully petition your Honor to remit the fine aforesaid; this the [...] day of March 1865

B M Burdett
M H Owsley
W D Carpenter
W McKee Fox

I know that the judgt. was taken without trial & that as inducement not to motion for new Trial is it was proposed to have application for remission I think it a case for interposition by Executive

E L VanWinkle
Ben. S. Coffey

I concur in the foregoing statements and in the pryr for the remission of the Jugt

W B Moore
W. H. Pettus
J. E. Cosson C, P, C, C
S A Newell
A. J.James

Pulaski Cir Ct
vs
J. W. Adams &c Moses Singleton
Petition
$200.

Remitd.
10th April 1865