To his Excellency the Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your petitioners Henry L Bell ^& Isom Jenkins^ residents of the county of Webster will most respectfully represent that at the last presidential Election in the town of Dixon the county seat of said county [...][...] they and some of their neighbours & friends had drank to freely of bad whiskey and become some what intoxicated, and of Course become noisy and no doubt Swore profainly, and for which they was ^were^ proceeded against by the commonwealth and was fined before H H Smith a Justice of the peace for s^d County the sum of $15 besides Cost against Bell & $12 against Jenkins

That a few days afterwards they returned to Dixon to ascertain the amount of said fines, and they felt that injustice had been done them; and they boaldly asserted that injustice had been done them; through predjudice, and again Swore a few oaths, they were again proceeded against before the same Justice, and Bell was fined $17 and Jenkins $15 besides cost —

Now they will State at each time they were tried for the offence of disturbing the peace there was no quarling, fighting assault, but it was nothing more or less than loud talking & Swearing as drunk men will do, they feel that they are oppressed and have been unjustly delt by; and having no remedy except at the hands of your Excellency, they therefore respectfully ask a remission of said fines: and will most faithfully promise that they will sin no more in that way & as in duty bound they will ever pray

Henry L Bell
Isom Jenkins

Henry L Bell & Isom Jenkins state that the statements contained in the foregoing petition they beleve to be true

H L Bell
Isham Jenkins

Union County Ky

Subscribed and sworn to before me by H S Bell and Isham Jenkins this 16^th day of December 1860

Hiram M^cElroy, N, P,

We the undersigned citizens of Webster County, have read the foregoing petition of Bell & Jenkins and beleve the statements therein contained are true & pray for a remission of s^d fines

Webster J. P.
$15
$17 } H L. Bell
$15
$12 } Isom Jenkins
Resp^d 12 mo
Iss^dJany 25. 1861