To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette Governor of Commonwealth of Kentucky

your Petitioner Wiley Green would respectfully represent unto your Excellency that at at the August term of the Laurel circuit court 1864 he was indicted for Keeping a Tipling house That at The Present March Term of said Court 1865 He Entered a plea of guilty of Retailing and Judgment went against him for twenty dollars & costs The circumstances under which he was Indicted and find as aforesaid were as follows viz He was a refugee from Tennessee & had no means here of making a living but by hard work and hired to work at a Military Post near London & was at the time working for the Government of the United States & was in John Pitmans Bar room ^he being a Licensed Tavern Keeper^ one day when his Clerk steped out the clerk requested your Petitioner to wait upon any one calling at the bar while he the clerk was gone & your Petitioner did so without being sworn & sold one glass or drink of ardent Spirits for the man Pitman without realizing or Expecting or intending to realize one

cent for his own use & did not know orof think of having violated law until a bench warrant was Executed on him He Says that he is a poor man having a family to Support and and has been driven from his home in Tennessee by this ruthless rebellion for no other reason than His loyalty to the Government of the united States That unless your Excellency should interade He will be compeled to pay said fine or permit his Suarities to pay it or let his family suffer The Circumstances considered the prayer of your Petitioner is that you remit said fine for which He will ever feel greatful

Wiley Green

The undersigned believe the Statements in ^the^ foregoing Petition are true & Join in the prayer thereof

Gov Bramlett
Dear sir I hope that you will remit this fine

yours Truly
G Pearl

Laurel Co
vs
Robt Davis
$20
4^th May/65