To His Excellency
Hon. Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

By a Judgment of the Kenton Circuit Court, rendered in Eighteen Hundred and sixty, Your Petitioner was fined Sixty Dollars and costs for selling Liquor without license. Upon Petition, Your Excellency granted a Respite for the term of one year which has now expired.

It is now the prayer of your Petitioner to release so much of that fine as lies in the power of your Excellency. Your Petitioner begs leave to state that such is the utter prostration of business in this vicinity and such the dearth of all employment that it is impossible for him to pay said fine. the heaviness of the fine is doubled by the present financial troubles. Your Petitioner therefore earnestly prays for the exercise of Executive clemency.

Lawrence Roche

I have been acquainted several years with Lawrence Roche, the above Petitioner, and know him to be an honest, intelligent and industrious man,

and I do warmly recommend the prayer of his Petition.

John. P. Harrison

We, the undersigned, Citizens of Covington Kenton County, respectfully join in the prayer of the Petitioner.

J A Goodson
Y. Mise
C, H, Mooar
L. M, Rees
D. Mooar
W, S, Ellis
J H. M^cGlasson
Robert Simmons
F. A. Avard
Henry. C. Harris
John J. Macklin
F. I. M^cCaffrey
E L Craig

Respite 8 Mo
B. M.

Kenton Cir. Ct.
L. Roche
$60. } Tipling
Iss^dAug 29. 1861