May the 5^th 1865
To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Gov of Ky

Your petitioner Michal, would respectfully states that on the 3^rd day of may 1865 being at the May Term of the City Court of Louisville he was fined fifty Dollars with costs on a charge of an Assault & Battery on one Jacob Apple the facts briefly, stated are as follows one day in [...]1865 the two children of your petitioner aged three & 6 years were struck across the hands with a stick by a daughter of the prosecuting witnes aged fourteen years, which left a red mark on there hands, the first time your petitioner met said Apple he told him that he did not want his children whipt any more, and as the saying is one word brought on an other until said Jacob Apple threw a bucket full of wather upon your petitioner thereby commencing the assault himself afterwards several blowes passed between them, neither of them was much hurt, and one about as much as the other said Apple then had him Indided, and he was the only witness by whom any thing conserning the case was proved, now if your petitioner could have testified the case would have been the reverse from what it was, your petitioner say that he is a poor man with wife and three children

and a mother Eighty years old to support, in addition to which he has spent three hundred and fifty Dollars with draft Clubs, and that it would go hard now to pay this fine, and he says he is not to blame so much as said Apple commenced the assault,

Wherefore he prays that the your Excellency will interpose your pardning power, and relieve him from the payment of this fine, Wherefore your petitioner respectfully submits his case to you together with the following names of the officers of said Court and Citizens of Louisville Ky

Very Respectfully Submitted
Michal Mathis

We the undersigned officers of the court and Citizens of Louisville would suggest that we think the above is a case which deserves the interposition of your Executive clemency, and therefore pray your Excellency to remit the fine against your petitioner

We are acquainted with the persons whose names are signed below & know them to be respectable citizens of Louisville & Neighbors of the Petitioners, as citizens we have no objection to the remission of the fine, but decline to act sworn as officers of the court

Geo. W. Johnston

Louisville City Ct
vs
Michael Mathias
$50 —
Remitted
25^th May 1865