To his Excellency Tho^s E. Bramlett

Govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky. Your petitioner would most respectfully represent to your excellency that our worthy fellow citizen John Sullivan was at the may Term 1864 of the Trimble Circuit Court fined the sum of sixty dollars for keeping a tipling house in said County of Trimble Your petitioners would say that the said John Sullivan is a farmer & a very poor man that they believe he ought not under the circumstances to have been fined that he the said John Sullivan was at the time of the trial a citizen of the County of Carroll, and residing in that County, that he says to us, & we know him to be a man of Truth, that he had lost or mislaid the Copy of Summons & did not recollect the time Set for his trial, we are his neighbours & know that he was not in the habit & believe he never did sell whiskey or any other liquors in any quantity less than one half Gallon, he having licenses from the Government to do so. we would therefore under the circu Circumstances respectfully ask Your excellency to remit said fine & as in duty bound we would ever pray