To the Honorable Beriah MaGoffin Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitoner Geo. W Thompson would Respectfully represent to your honour that at the Sept^r Term of the Kenton County Circuit Court held in Covington he was fined the sum of fifty dollars for selling to a slave the property of one Dr J, C C J Blackburn of the said county, and your petitioners would respectfully state that said Blackburn had allowed said Slave to work about the city and had authorised him to employ and pay said boy for his services and that while said boy was thus employed his bar keeper gave him a dram of old Bourbon whisky, for which he was fined as aforesaid the said boy being as he thought entitled to the same, but owing to the strict sense of the law in such cases made and provided your petitioner violated said law not having a knowledge of the same, he further States that he has paid the Attorney for the Commonwealth his fee and replevid the fi[...]ne for which fine he is able, but unwilling to pay, as he was totally ignorant of the law; wherefore he CEarnestlyprays, your honour to remit the Bal of said fine and your petitioner will ever pray &C

Geo W Thompson

We the undersigned citizens of Covington Kentucky State that we are well acquanited with the petitioner Geo W Thompson and know him to be a good citizen and a law abiding man and that we believe the statements made in the foregoing petition are true

I think that the fine pd to the attorney for the Comth. of $15. & the costs — is sufficiently severe for the offense and that the residue should presents strong claim to the executive for remission —

M. M. Benton
Jas. Pryor.

John F, Fisk

Kenton Cir. Ct

Geo W Thompson
Petition

Gov. Ky

$50. } Liquor to a slave

Respitedmitted
B, M

Iss^dOcto 26 1861

Perrin