To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Martin Bowles says that at the Sept term 1858 of the Knox Circuit Court he was indicted for living in Adultery with a woman named Betsy Wyatt — That at the Sept term 1860 of said Court the case came on for trial and the proof was that Betsy Wyatt lived in a house with to hersef on the State Road and that the undersigned lived in [...]her house. On this proof he was fined twentydollars —

He says the further facts are these — He is now fifty six years of age has been so crippled with Rheumatism for nearly four years that it it is not very often that he can do work and then only for a few days at a time — That his family left him about five years ago — That Betsy Wyatt is about 45 years old — has about five acres of land in cultivation and was willing ^your^ petitioner might live at her house supposing he could do enough work to pay his board & washing & for his clothing — He thinks he just about does this He says if driven away from there he does not know where he would get a home and that it might eventually send him to the poor house. He has nothing to pay

the fine with or out of which it could be collected He therefore prays your Excellency to remit said fine.

Martin Bowles

Nov 13. 1860
Knox County SS.

Sworn to before me by Martin Bowles Nov 13. 1860

G. M. Adams clk

We the undersgined ask respectfully that your Excellency will remit the fine of Martin Bowles

John G. Eve
G M Adams
W. B Anderson
Jn^o M. Dickinson
Drury Tye, Jr
W. W. Pope
M L. Rice
David Dishman
Jacob Fipps
Milton E. Baker
William Matthews
Thomas J Pitzer
James Campbell
Tho^s Warfield
Joseph fipps
J W Anderson

Martin Bowles' case
Knox co.