Petition

Carrie Dumont to Thomas E. Bramlette

Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR17-51
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-2787
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FTP Identifier
32205671

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Dates
1865-11-09
1865-12-29
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Citation

Carrie Dumont to Thomas E. Bramlette, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-2787 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency Thos E Bramlette Governor of the State of Kentucky

The petitioner Carrie Dumont would humbly state to your Excellency that on the 9th day of November 1865 She was fined $25.00 on an Indictment in the City Court of Louisville: and it appears from an Execution now in the hands of the Marshall of said Court, that she was fined $60 00 & costs: She states that she appeared by atto in the said Court on that day: and she admits that she was fined as aforesaid $25. but she denies that she was ever tried & fined $60.00 She says that She did not know about said last mentioned fine until the officer called upon her to pay it, and the Term of the Court had expired: and she is advised that the Court has no power now to correct said order:

She says that she is unable to pay the said fine: that for a long time She has been an invalid, and that the officers & Soldier of the Government some months ago took her house and all she had in it from her and that now she so reduced that she is unable to pay the above Executions

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She states that her house was never complained by Citizen or police Officer, and she humbly prays your Excellency to interpose your clemency and remit to her the said fines and will every pray &c

Respectfully
Carrie Dumont,

we the undersigned Citizens respectfully join in the prayer of the Petitioner

Respectfully
Wm Hipwell

Louisville City Ct
vs
Carrie Dumont
$60,
Remitted 29th Dec/65