To his Excllency the Gov^r of the Commonwealth of Ky.

Your Petitioners Thomas Sevill and Jas SaAnderson. Sevill would respectfully represent that at the September Term 1860 of the Gallatin Circuit Court Your petitioners were each fined $50 for Carrying Concealed Weapons. which your Petitioners represent as true but not with the intent to harm or do violence to any person or persons, but having purchased pistols which were Obtained in a trafic with One of Our Neighbours [the] put the pistols in Our pockets with a view to Carry them home and in doing So and Showing them to One of the Grand Jury Your petitioenrs have presented and fined as stated. Your petitioners would further State that they are poor boys without means and unable to pay Said debt and would therefore in view of the premises and inasmuch as Said weapons were inadvertently Carried without any vicious or evile Entent to do harm respectfully ask that the fine imposed upon them may be remitted and Your Petitioners as in duly bound will ever pray. &c

The commonwealth of Kentuck
$80 William P Smith

Gallatin Cir Ct
Respite 12 mo
B. M
$50 each} Concealed Weapons
Tho. & Anderson Sevill
Iss^dJany 17. 1861