Petition

Joseph Vogt 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
MG25-94
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-2330
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FTP Identifier
32210730

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Dates
1860-11-19
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Joseph Vogt 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-0001-020-2330 (November 13, 2026).

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To His Excellency. Beriah Magoffin
Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Joseph Vogt states, that on the 19th day of November 1860- he presented to your Excellency- a petition, for the remission of a fine, of $50 — which was assessed against him in the city court of Louisville for an alleged assault and battey — which fine was, respited for 12 months. Your petitioner, is wholly, unable to pay sd fine- and respectfully asks your Excellency to remit said fine He refers to his former petitioner

Respectfully
Joseph Vogt.

I know the petitioner Jos. Vogt well, and know the circumstances under which the former petition was made, & believe, that Executive Clemency- will have been, justly exercised, upon the remisison of the fine

W, G, Reasor