To His Excellency
Beriah Magoffin,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Ky.

We your petitioners would very respectfully beg leave to represent to your Excellency that in the month of February last, at a master field in the Town of Tilton, Fleming County, — where — great excitement prevailed, one Wiliam Harmon, a citizen of Fleming County, with several others, was arrested for disturbing the Peace, — brought before James C. Sousley Esqr. Police Judge for the said Town of Tilton, and upon proof of said charge, was fined the sum of eleven Dollars and [...] cents.

Now we your petitioners would further represent to your Excellency, that said Harmon is a very poor man, and a cripple, he owns no land, and but very little property of any kind, — has a large family of little children, and a very weakly wife, all dependent on his arm alone for support, and that he cannot without great inconvenience to his family pay said fine.

We would further represent to your Excellency, that said Harmon is, (generally speaking,) a very civil and unobtrusive man, — a peaceable and unoffending citizen, and from our knowledge of the man, and the attendant circumstances, we are of opinion that said disturbance resulted, not from a malicious disposition on the part of said Harmon, but rather from the impulse of the moment, while under excitement.

Taking all this into consideration, we your petitioners do very earnestly pray your Excellency

to remit said fine, and in duty bound will ever pray.

July the 23^rd 1861.

Tilton Po. ct.
$11. } breach
W^m Harmon
Iss^dAug 14. 1861

Respite 12 Mo
B. M