To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette,

Your Excellency's petitioner John M. Vaughn respectfully represents that he is a citizen of Kentucky and a resident of Louisville, That on the 10^th day of October 1864 one John Gallagher being under indictment for felony in the Jefferson Circuit Court, your petitioner, induced by the belief that the said Gallagher was innocent, became bound for his appearance in said court on the 17^th of October for trial in the sum of four hundred dollars and thereafter on the said 17^th of October the said Gallagher failing to appear his bail was declared forfeited and a writ of scirefacias was issued against your Excellency's petitioner and on the 20^th of May 1865 a judgment was entered against your petitioner for four hundred dollars and costs,

Your Petitioner further represents that he is a poor man and that the payment of so large a sum of money would subject him to serious in convenience and privation and he petitions your Excellency to relieve him of the payment of so much of said judgment as may be accruing to the state

Respectfully
J. M. Vaughan

We the undersigned respect-

fully join in the prayer of the foregoing petition

Respectfully
P. B. Muir
W. A. Ronald Sheriff
J R Dupuy
com' atty

Jefferson Cir Ct
vs
Petition of
John M. Vaughn
$400,
Forfeiture
Remitted
2^d June/65