To his Excellency Govenor B Mogoffin

1
Your Petitioner would respectfully represent to your Honor that he has been engaged for some five months in selling goods of various kinds at auction in the City of Lexington; He states that he made no attempt to avoid the laws of the state in regard to auctioneers — He employed a regularly licensed auctioneer to acution his good's & has regularly paid the percent both to the city and to the Commonwealth required by law — these being the facts, he has been served with a warrant issuing from the City Court of Lexington charging him with selling with out License — and further that he has been informed by Counsel that the Law may be against him wherefore he throws himself upon your Excellency's clemency — and prays you to use your perogative in his case — by a pardon before continuation —

2
Your Petition further states that he is a citizen of this Commonwealth and a resident of the City of Lexington; and making the above paragraph a part of this [no 2] so far as it sets forth the facts — he would state that he has been fined in the Lexington City Court for Pedling with out license — when he never

claimed to be a Pedler or so considered himself having a large store rented in the City at which house all of his goods are sold at auctin by a regularly licensed auctioneer and he sells no goods through the county or City as a Pedler — with those facts before the Jury — under the law they were compelled to find him — which they did to the amount of $100 —. Your Petition under the circumstances prays your Excellency to remit said fine except fees and costs

all of which your Petitioner respectfully submits

L J. Mossler.

We the undersigned respectfully unite in the prayer's of the above petition

Lexington City Court

Respite 12 mo
B M

Fine $100 — Respite [...]Feby 21
Peddling in their license
S J. Mossler