Petition

William C. Kits et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

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
BR13-396
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1836
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FTP Identifier
32204723

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Dates
1864
1864-09-19
1865-05-22
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Citation

William C. Kits et al. 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-0001-004-1836 (November 12, 2026).

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His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky

your petitioners Residents of Boone County Respectfully Represent to your Excelency that at the Spring term of the Galatin Circuit Court 1864 George Arnold a Citizen of Boone County was fined Sixty Dollars for Gambling ^Silling Spirits without license^ your petitioners further State that the Defendant Arnold is a Quiet peacible man and verry poor with a family dependent on his Labor for a Support your petitioners also State that at on the 19th day of Sept 1864 the Defendant Arnold was Drafted and had to pay Several Hundred Dollars into the Boone Bounty fund to Get Released from Said draft — which Renders him unable to pay Said fine in whole or in part now in Consideration of the above named facts your petitioners askes your Exclency to Remit Said fine and allow the whole labor of the Defendant to be applied to the Support of his family and your petitioners will Ever prey

Wm C Kits
S Baker
James. W. Miller
G. W. Baker
James McFadden
J W Angleton
R. C Green county atty

Wm H Baker
J J Miller
R B Johnson
J. A. Johnston
C B Johnsen
G G Johnson

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Boone Cir Ct
vs
Geo Arnold
$60 —
Remitted
22d May 1865