Petition

William A. Buford et al. to Richard T. Jacob

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
BR13-435 to BR13-436
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1868
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FTP Identifier
32204755

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Dates
1865-04-29
1865-04-29
1865-05-03
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Citation

William A. Buford et al. to Richard T. Jacob, 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-0001-004-1868 (November 12, 2026).

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To his excellency Gov Jacob, Governor protem of Kentucky —

Your Petitioners, William A. Buford Charles T. Miller and Ricd A. Buckner Jr would humbly represent to your Excellency that on the 29th of April 1865 they were fined the sum of three dollars ($3) apeice for the alleged offense of riding through the streets of the city of Frankfort at a faster gait than a trot or pace on a horse — they were so fined by the Police Judge of the city of Frankfort sitting at a Police Court in said city on the said 29th of April 1865 —

Your Petitioners would represent tha they are school-boys — that they were wholly ignorant that they were violating any city ordnance or law when they rode their horses in a rack or canter through the streets of said city. They had seen divers and sundry individuals on divers occasions gallop and rack their horses through said streets and they had never known or heard of them to be fined for doing the same — They would represent that they have no money or means of their own to pay said fine. They therefore pray your Excellency's clemency in this case and a remittal of said fine and they will always pray.

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William A Buford
Chas. T. Miller
Richd A. Buckner Jr.

We the undersigned believe the foregoing statements are true and join in the prayer of William A Buford, Chas T. Miller and Richd A. Buckner Jr for the remittal of said fine —

Alfred Hensley
Jno Mason Brown
RichdSharpe
Orlando Brown Jr.
W T Bramlette

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Frankfort Police Court —
vs $9.00
Buford & others
3d May/65