To
His Excellency Tho^s E. Bramlette
Governor of State of Kentucky.

Your petitioners would most respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the September Term 1865 of the Fulton Circuit Court one of our citizens John W. Cole. charged with a Breach of the Peace in quarreling with and abusing one R. E. Finch, was found guilty by the Jury and fined the sum of Two Hundred & Twenty five Dollars — ($225.⁰⁰)

Now your petitioners would represent that Mr John W. Cole is a good and peacable citizen of the County that he is a poor man, with a family dependant upon his daily labor for a support; that immediately after the difficulty with s^d R. E. Finch, which was nothing more than a "Christmas Frolic" said Cole and Finch were on friendly terms, and s^d R. E. Finch voluntarily offered to pay the Physician^s Bill for dressing the wound of s^d J. W. Cole and the parties were then and are now on terms of friendship; that it would be a great hardship on said Cole, being a poor man, and wholly dependant upon his daily labor for the maintenance of himself and family to pay this fine, and your petitioners would therefore most respectfully appeal to your Executive clemency.

to relieve Mr Cole by a remission of his fine, which would, in our humble judgment be just and equitable, and would at the same time vindicate the majesty of the law, as your petitioners will every pray &c