T To his Excelency the Governer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,

your Petitioner C. T. Wales would respectfully represent that at the fall Term of the Johnson Circuit court he was indicted by the Grand jury of said county in two cases one for Keeping a tipling house & the other for selling whiskey as a Merchant without a license, he says at the Presant May term of said court 1861, there was Judgement rendered on one of the indictments for $60. & after he heard the instructions of the Court he saw that the other case would go against him, whereupon he confessed a Judgement in that case for the sum of $20. making in bouth cases the sum of $80,⁰⁰ & costs, he sayes the facts & circumstances are these, in the spring of 1860, he formed a Partnership in the sale of dry-goods &c with one Nathan Preston in the town of Paintsville Ky, that said Preston was a Merchant at the time & as he was informed had a license to keep a tavern, at all events the said Preston had a bar-room near the store-house in which he Kept whiskey for sale, that this Petitioner had nothing to do with the whisky whatever, but would often attend to the barroom in request of the said Preston & in his absence, he sayes he first let it out in small Quantities by the orders of said Preston & afterward was informed by said Preston

that I must not sell in less Quantities than a half gallen not to be drank on the Premises or adjacent thereto, all of which orders I strictly obeyed and only attended to the sale in the abscense of the said Preston and at his special request, for which selling he was Presented & fined as above stated, he Positively asserts that he had nothing to do with the whisky whatever did not own any Part or interest in it but was a Partner of the said Prestons, in the sale of dry-goods & only attended to the sale of the whisky at the special request & in the absence of Preston & as a friend- he says that he is inocent of any wrong whatever & supposed that he would not be responsible only as agent for Preston-

Wherefore he asks your Excelency to remit all his fine Except cost, as the thinks the costs will be sufficient punishment for his offence,

C. T. Wales,

We the undersigned Citizens of Johnson County Joine in the Prayer of the Petitioner & ask that he be relieved-

C. T. Wales

A, J, Hax
J, W, Stambaugh
H S Vaughan
James Roberts
D B Wells H, C, Childers
Sam. P. Hagan

Respite 12 Mo
B. M

Johnson Cir. Ct
$60
$20 } liquor
C. T. Wales

Iss^dJuly 18. 1861