To His Excellency, The Governor of Kentucky:

Your petitioner, James Dalton, respectfully states that at the present July term of the City Court of Louisville, he was fined the sum of $20. for selling liquor without license, or rather, for the sale of one glass of liquor without license. Of this fine, your petitioner has paid $6. being the 30 per cent allowed by law to the prosecuting attorney, and has also paid the further sum of $10. — being the costs.

In consideration of the premises and as your petitioner is in very limited circumstances and the times are hard, he humbly prays your Excellency to extend to him your Executive Clemency and to remit the portion of the above fine which belongs to the Commonwealth, and, as in duty-bound, he ever will &^c.

James Dalton

July 23^rd 1862.

The finding of the Jury in the above case reads as follows. "We of the Jury find the Defendant guilty of once selling as charged in the within Indictment & assess his fine at twenty Dollars to the Commonwealth of Ky.

W. G Timberlake Foreman

Mr. Dalton has paid the cost in the case amounting to the sum of $16.

O N Stratton clk

Respite 8 mo
B. M

Louisville City Court
$20 } Liquor
Ja^s Dalton
Iss^dJuly 31. 1862