To His excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner would respectfully State that at the March Term 1861 of the Pulaski Circuit Court, Judgment was rendered agt him as a fine, for the Sum of Sixty dollars & cost of prosecution, that the charge upon which fine was rendered, was for retailing Spiritous Liquors wihtout a License, He State that the Liquors were sold on the adjoining premises, and not on his own there being only the public highway between them that the place where the Liquors were sold belonged to his son in Law and daughter that he had given the same to them before the selling complained of and consequently had no control of Said premises at the time of the selling complained of, He state that he is a poor man, and unable to pay said fine, without irrepairable injury, that he has a family to support, and that he is entirely innocent of the charges agt him, and was implicated with his son in Law because they both resided ^upon^ the farm which originaly belonged to your petitioner, Wherefore he prays the interference of [...]Executive clemency,, that said fine be remitted and that he be released from all future Liability on account of the Same
May [...] 1861,

Edmund Taylor_

We the undersigned having examined the foregoing Petition and being acquainted with the circumstances therein mentioned Join ^in^ the prayre therein contained

Yours Resply,

Hon Beriah Magoffin
Dear Sir

I herewith Send you the Petition of E Taylor for the remission of a fine, I am fully conversant with the facts and know them to be just as stated by him, The signers to the Petition live in his immediate neighborhood, and what they state can be relied. I think you will be do an act of Justice and Charity to remit Said Penalty

Respectfully
Thomas Z Monroe
atty for Pulaski Co

Respite 12 mo
B. M
Is^dJune 24
Pulaski Cir. Ct
$60. } Tipling
E. Taylor

E Taylor
Petition