To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlette the Governor of the State of Kentucky:

Molly Kirk your petitioner would humbly make known to your Excellency: That at the September Term of the City Court of Louisville ^1865^: She was indicted in said court and on the 12^th day of September she was fined the sum of $500.00 The Petitioner states that M^r Whipwell a policeman of said city stated that from reputation your petitioner kept a house of prostitution: and that it was his opinion that it was a house of prostitution that he had some time ago seen men who were drunk going into said house:

R. O. Priest stated that He never had seen any acts of disorder about the said house: that it was a house of prostitution in his opinion: and this was all the Evidence: before the Court: yet the Jury returned the excessive fine of $500.⁰⁰/100

Your Petitioner prays your Excellency to remit the above fine to her, excepts fines & costs, which are very heavy in the said Courts:

She says she is very poor and wholly unable to pay the aforesaid, ^fine^ and She asks your Excellency to interpose your Executive clemency: She says that no one of the neighbors complained

Mary Kirk

State of Kentucky
Jefferson County Sct

Mary Kirk states that the above petition is true

Mary Kirk

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of Sept 1865

Jos. Clement, Justice of the pece Jeff Co Ky
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The undersigned clerk of the City Court of Louisville states that He was present when the trial of Mollie Kirk was had and the foregoing contains the substance of what was in proof no other witnesses were interviewed

September 15th 65 — Phil Tomppert Jr C, C, C, L,

Louisville City Ct
vs
Mary Kirk
$500,
238 — Hancocks St