To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlett Govnor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

Your petitioner Francis Sanders would respectfully represent to your Excellency That at the present Term of the Grayson Circuit Court ^May 1864^ he was fined one hundred & thirty ^[...]^ Dollars on an Indictment for Keeping a Disord^er^ally house, the facts proven was that your petitioner had taken to live with him a woman to whom he was not married and was seen sleeping with her on some 3 or 4 acasions, Your petitioner would further represent that he is a very poor man & cannot pay the fine he has no property out of which to make it or any part thereof & will be bound to be in the County Jail, if the law is enforsed as he Expects it will, & the length of time he would be compeld to by this would deprive him of making a crop & his little children ^would be deprived^ of many of the necessaries of life and of the Company & protection of an only parent ^who he has & sons of the Union army & are dead^ He prays your excellency to Interpose pose your Clemency and remit the Commonwealths part of said fine and would Ever pray as he is in duty bound to do

Frances ^his X Mark^ Sanders