To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Your Peititioners, citizens of Lawrence County would represent to your Excellency, that on the 12^th day of July 1865 before the Hon Jno M Clayton Judge of Lawrence Quarterly Court, Andrew Dempsey was upon his plea of "Guilty" Fined Sixty dollars for the offence of Keeping a Tipling house, Your petitioners would further represent that this is the first conviction against said Dempsey for such an offence, that a Military camp has been for a long period kept at the place where the offence was charged to have been committed, and that tipling and such like violations of law have been to a very considerable extent countenanced by the officers of said camp, that such irregularities have now ceased and the regular process of law enforced and apprehensions of further disorders have been dissipated Your petitioners would respectfully ask that the said fine of Sixty dollars against the Said Andrew Dempsey be remitted except for so much as Thirty percent thereof

And as in duty bound your petitioners wil ever pray &c

Respectfully
K. S. Pridwell
County attorney

I also recommend that your excellency remit the fine I am satisfied that there are mitigating circumstances connected with this case it seems that his wife is truly the offender.

Yours truly
Jno. M Clayton Judge L C C

Petition of Citizens of Lawrence Co
To Release a $60 fine
vs
Andrew Dempsey for Keeping a TiplingHouse
Remitted 19 Aug/65