To the Hon Beriah Magoffin,
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

We the undersigned, citizens of Henderson County, petition your Excellency to remit certain fines imposed upon J & M. Schlamp at the last June term of the Henderson Circuit Court upon Indictments by the Grand Jury N^os 1, 2 & 5 for the following reasons, to-wit:

In the Commonwealth vs J & M. Schlamp} N^o 1 for selling liquor to a slave- First. The only witness in the case employed a slave as a decoy and paid him for his services and thereby virtually made the negro the prosecutor of the said defendant- Second. The Jury in the case returned a verdict finding the Defendants guilty and the Court assessed a fine of $50 each upon the parties seperately. The sign before the said Schlamp's grocery is under the style of J. & M. Schlamp — but M. Schlamp is not now, nor was he at the time the Incidtment was found, a partner in the firm, — which fact the Defendant was not able to prove to the Jury.

The case of the Commonwealth vs the same Defendants N^o 2 for the same offense — is of precisely the same cha character the same witness under the same circumstances and the same verdict rendered —

In the Commonwealth vs the } Same N^o 5 } for selling liquor to a Minor. The Jury assessed the fine at $20. The person to whom the liquor was sold, bears every evidence of being twenty one years old, and said Schlamp laboring under this impression, neglected to ask his age, and then without any intention upon his part, become was guilty, of violating the law.

Your petitioners think that said Schlamp is a worthy object for the exercise of your Executive clemency, and therefore pray, that your Excellency may so intervene

as to remedy that wherein the law is defficient on account of its rigidity.

Henderson Cir. Ct
2 Juds of $50 each
& one of $20.
J. & M. Schlamp

Iss^dAug 14 1861

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