Petition

Robert Bishop to Beriah Magoffin

Document Genre
Petition
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG22-78
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-1489
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FTP Identifier
32209897
People
Magoffin, Beriah
Johnston, George W.
Dent, Henry
Delph, John Millbank
Bishop, Robert C.
Hewett, Robert C.
Bell, Theodore Stout
Reasor, William Gatton
Places
Lexington, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Organizations
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Louisville City Court
Dates
1861-08
1861-10-10
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Robert Bishop to Beriah Magoffin, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1489 (November 12, 2026).

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor. of Kentucky.

Your Petitioner Robert Bishop states that at the August Term 1861. of the city court of Louisville he was. fined $50- for carrying concealed a pistol. Your Petitioner is a resident of Lexington Ky — and was on a visit to Louisville, when the weapon was taken from him & the fine imposed, The trial was had when he was in Lexington & he made no defense, He had a right to carry the weapon, when trovelling & had he defended he would not have been fined, Wherefor he asks for a remission of said fine.

Respectfully
Robert Bishop

The facts stated in the forgoing petition, are true, & under all the circumstances, I concur with the petitioner & ask for a remission of the fine

W, G, Reasor

I think that this fine, imposed without defense, and under the impression well-founded that the case would be dismissed without trial, ought to be remitted. I therefore concur with the Prosecuting Attorney in the case, W. G. Resor, in asking for a remission

T. S. Bell
R. C. Hewitt
Henry Dent
Chief of Police
J. M Delph, Mayor
Geo. W. Johnston

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Louisville City Ct.
$50. } Concealed Weapons
Robt Bishop

Remitted
B. M.

IssdOcto 10. 1861