His Excellency Gov Magoffin

We the undersigned Citizens of Newport Campbell County Kentucky. Would respectfully represent that having heard with regret that our Fellow Citizen William Grossmith has been fined in the sum of Sixty Dollars in the Boone Circuit Court at the October term 1860 Keeping a Tipling House facts in the case that Wm Grossmith who ^now is and^ had been for years past engaged in Keeping a Confectionary & Saloon in this place. went to the fair held at Florence and rented a Booth wheret he provided customers with refreshments and among others furnished some with liquor, this was the whole sum and substance of his offending. We can Say to your excellency that M^r Grossmith is an upright honest, sober, industrious man, whose character is irreproachable We have known him personally for many years and can assure you this is the first time that he was ever convicted of an offense. We think his case demands the Executive clemency, and beg your excellency to use the pardoning power in his behalf.

Newport, Ky Jan^y 9^th 1861

Boone Cir. Ct
Respite 12 mo
B. M
$60 } Tipling
W^m Grossmith
Iss^dJany 30. 1861

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