To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the state of Kentucky

your petitioner Charles Mytinger sr respectfully states that at the October Term of the Mason Circuit Court 1861 — he was fined sixty dollars for keeping a Tippling-House in the city of Maysville: He has been for many years prior to his removal to Kentucky, a citizen of the state of Ohio, he is poor and in feeble, health and by the kindness and assistance of friends set up in a small grocery the profits of which he fears will be inadequate to his support; to two or more of his friends upon several occasions he sold liquor and which acts he now learns were forbidden by the law = your Excellency has been pleased to remit or stay the collection of a fine imposed upon him by the Mayor of the City of Maysville for a similar offence; but the offence for which he was indicted and fined by the Circuit Court was committed before that tried by the Mayor; both were done by him in ignorance of the law —

— so soon as he learned by the admonition (of the trial) and judgment of the Mayor he desisted and so now remains = "Ignorance of the law excuseth no man", so say those who administer it, but it is he hopes a good reason for the exercise of Mercy; his poverty and his ill health both unite in asking your Excellency to remit the said fine and prevent his becoming the feeble and helpless teinant of a Jail, with the assurance that he will indeed in this matter at least "sin no more"

Charles Mytinger

We citizens of Maysville and Mason County respectfully unite in the prayer of the foregoing petition.

Nelson Whitaker

Respite 12 mo
B. M

Mason Cir Ct
$60. } Tipling
Cha^s Mytinger
Iss^dOcto 26. 1861