To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Gov^r. of Kentucky

Your petitioner Benj. Fuel would respectfully represent, That he was fined for carrying concealed, a deadly weapon a pistol in the city court of Louisville about October 1859, & shortly afterwards petitionid y^r Excellency to remit his fine, which petition has not been as yet acted upon, the matter has been permitted to slumber until yesterday,, when the Officer, a city Marshall, took him in custody & committed him to the Workhouse on a Ca, Sa. The former petition stated as a fact, that the petitioner was a driver of an Omnibus to the Louisville & portland Rail Road & was frequently thus engaged until ten or 12 oclk at night at such times he carried a Small pistol to protect himself ag^st. harm & whilst returning from his stable on one Occasion he was met & arrested by a policeman presented to the city court & subsequently fined $50 — the costs amounting now to upwards of $20, ^is p^d^ which The Fine he is wholly unable to pay, he further says he is by trade a Blacksmith & has been working at that business for several

months, without being able to do more than support himself wife & two children, the times are hard, business from various causes has been stopped & poor men with families have great difficulty to barely subsist, there can be no advantage to any one by confining him & depriving his family of his services now, Therefore he prays Your excellency to remit his fine, his acquaintances will tesfity to his good character & your petitioner will ever pray &c

Respectfully y^r obt Sev^t
Benjamin Fuel

13^th Mar 1861

We the undersigned pray y^r Excellency to remit Fuels fine & we will be thankful

respectfully y^r friends
M. G. Halmes

It would be well to relieve his fine,

C D Pennebaker
W P Boone
R. T. Lightburn
N. C. Howard
H. C. Thomas
John Enlow

I know young Fuel he is verry poor & unable to pay a fine, he is now in the work House

Geo. W. Johnston.