To his Excellency The Governor of Kentucky —

Your petitioner Elijah B. Adams states that at the May Term 1862 of the Washington Circuit Court — he was fined sixty dollars upon a charge of Keeping a Tipling House: The facts of the case were these — Your petitioner is a farmer and raised a quantity of Corn — he had no distillery of his own and desiring to have his corn made into whisky he hired a neighbor [...] who ran a distillery to take his corn and make it into whisky on the shares — one half for the other — which ^he^ did This whisky your Petitioner took to his residence — and sold out to several of the neighbors by the quart — As he thought and believed he had a right under the law of the State permitting distillers of their own grain to sell the Whisky make from it in quantities not less Than a quart without a License to do so — This was his offense He had no desire or purpose to violate the law. Wherefore he asks — your Excellency to remit said fine.

E B Adams

Sworn to before me by Elijah B. Adams the 11^th June 1862

J P Barbour Clk.

We the undersigned citizens of Washington County beleive the statements of this petition are true, And join the the prayer thereof for the remission of the fine —

Rich^d J. Brown
J P Barbour
[...]
M R [...]
Ch. R. M^cElroy
Hugh L. M^cElroy
Logan I. Bosley
Thos Craycroft
W W Pope
John E, Clements
A S Bevill
Jas L [Simmes]
James A Brady
J. H. Polin
S,, C,, Fowler
Jas H Rawlings
Anthony M^cElroy
Hugh M^cElroy
Tho^s S Grundy
W. H. Canary
[...]
C. R. Craycroft
Geo Clements
John M^cIntire
James R Hughes

Remitted
B. M

Washington Cir Ct.
$60. } Tipling
E B Adams
Iss^dJuly 22^d 1862