Brownsville Ky March [...] 1861
To His Excelencey Beriah Magoffin Govenor of the State of Kentucky

Your Petitioner would Respectifully Represent to your honor that Whereas Green Gilbert was fined Sixty Dollars at the March Term of the Edmondson Equity & Criminal Court 1861 for three Times Selling Spiritous Liquors We would Respectivul Represent to your honor that the said Green Gilbert is But a Boy about about 17 or 18 years old and that he was induced to sell the Liquor for another man not knowing that he would be Responsible for so doing or Knowing that he was violating the Law by selling and that he is a very Poore Boy has no property or Estate whatever and that he is the sone of a very Poor Widow Wooman and that She has no Estate Now in view of all these considerations we would aske your honor to Remit the said fine that he woul will not be abel to pay the fine and that unless the fine is Remited that he will have to Lay in Jail We therefore hope that your honor will Remit said fine and by so doing you will confer a Lasting faver on a Poor Boy & his Widowed mother

Edmonsen
E & C Ct

Respite 12 mo
B. M.

$60 } Tipling
Green Gilbert
Iss^dApr 9. 1865