To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette
Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner William Walker States that he was Indicted by a Grand Jury of Russell County in two Cases for Keeping a Tipling house and that at the April Term 1865 of the Russell Circuit Court judgment was rendered against him by default for $60 fine in each case — Your pet^nr further states that while a member of Company C. 1^st Kentucky Cavalry Commanded by Co^l Frank Wolford, and in the line of his duty by extreme exposure he Contracted a disease of the head that distroyed his hearing so much so that he was unfit for duty; he procured permission to return home to his widowed mother who was poor and almost entirely dependant upon him for a support and while so at home and for the purpose of providing something for the support of himself and mother ^And having applied to Judge Green U. S. ast ass^r for United States license to retail Spirits^ he without Knowing that he was violating any law did Sell Spirits by the Small — but on account of his diseased condition ^& being unable to work,^ and for the supporting his aged mother he would not have engaged in such business — Your petitioner respectfully asks the remission of said fines

William Walker

Post office address
Jamestown
Ky.

We the undersigned respectfully as join in the petition of W^m Walker for a remission of the

fines Set fort therein &c —

Sent for fee 25 August /65