To His Excellency.
Thos. E. Bramlette Gov^r of Kentucky.

Your Petitioner Eliza Ann Jane Turpin would respectfully represent that a Judgment was rendered against her at the present Fall Term of the Wayne Circuit Court, for $60; being charged withsellin with "Keeping a tipling house"

TShe states, that she had some liquor, and was induced to sell a small quantity at one time, to the person who indicted her: She states she only sold once — That she is very poor, That she had three sons in the Fedral service and four small children at home to be supported by her labor alone; That she has no property. money, but a little which has been accumulated by her own work since the death of her husband — (That the prosecution was malicious)

She says. if forced to pay the judgment, it will leave her penniless, and bring suffering to the four small children who now constitute her family, and dependant on her for food —

She ^Petitions^ asks Your Excellency to remit this fine and judgment. Oct 13. 1865.

x. Eliza J ^her X mark^ Turpin

Sworn to by Eliza Ann Turpin before me this 18^t day of Oct 1865. —

x John L Sallee Clk

We Citizens of Wayne County, Know the above applicant, Eliza Ann Turpin, and

believe Your Excellency ought to extend to her the pardon and relief asked for —