To His Excellency Thomas E Bramlett

Govener of Kentucky Your Petitioners would respectfully represent that at the April Term of the Boyd Circuit Court 1863, Abraham Adams was fined sixty dollars for Keeping a Tippling House

Your petitioners would further represent that before the trial of the case in the circuit court a warrant was issued by a justice of the peace of Boyd County and at the trial a Judgment was rendered against the said Abraham Adams for Sixty ^Twenty^ dollars and this was for the same offence that the said Abraham Adams was tried before the circuit court, and for which he was fined in said court the said Adams plead the former conviction and the justices hopes could not be obtained and his plea was rejected, since the conviction the papers have been found in the hands of

H W Norris Esqr a justice of the peace of this county They further represent that said Abraham Adams is a poor man with a large family and he has ceased to keep a tavern and sell whisky and is now trying to make a living by manual Labour we there for pray your Excellency to interpose executive clemency and remitt the said fine in so much thereof as can be lawfully remitted,

Laban T Moore
J. D. Jones County atty
C S M^cConnell Judge Boyd Co Co
Ja^s W Riely clk B C C
Jeremiah Wellman
James Langston
M W Noris J P R C
W^m Ely,

Boyd Cir Ct

Remit all except fees and own costs. A previous conviction has been in the same case

Tho E Bramlette