To his excellency the Hon Beriah Magoffin
Govenor of the State of Kentucky

Your petitioners Citizens of Hart County would respectfully request and petition your excellency to remit a fine for $60. ^Keeping a Tippling House^ and Last assessed against Abejah Holt assessed against him at the April Term 1861 of the Hart Equity & Criminal Court said Holt is well Known to us to be a very poor ^man^ is deformed and badly crippled so much so as to be unable to labour and has a large and very helpless family said Holt is now in Jail wherefore he has been Committed in satisfaction of the fine no end of public Justice can be subserved by his further imprisonment and we believe it to be a cause in which the power you have ought to be exercised —

Aug 30th 1861

Munfordville Ky 1st Sept
Gov.

I wish you would remit the fine for this old man I Know every fact set forth in ^the^ petition to be true. I believe every citizen of the County would sign the petition or not one ^would^ remonstrate he is now in Jail and has been for about 3 weeks. he cant pay the fine and, so baddle crippled that he goes on crutches and can't work. is the reason he says he sold whisky in a small way at his cabin to make a little money he has promised to quit. I hope you will not let the press of other business prevent you from attending to this immediately the case of a poor old man lying in Jail to rot is of more importance than such a Lincoln Legislature as you have got yrs &c

Jno Donan

Hart E.q. Ct
$60 } Tipling
A Holt
Iss^dSept 10. 1861

Remitted
B M