Mount Vernon
Jan 26^th 1862 [1863]
Gov Robinso

Dear Sir I have no doubt but the statements in the foregoing petition are true in addition I will state that if I had the power I would remit the fine. My conscious convictions are that Granville Watts has done everything that he could do to suppress this Rebelion and never did do any thing that favored the Rebbls and when he did let the soldier have the spirits he done it to preserve the balanance of his property and as a necesity to preserve his own

Granville Pearl
Judge of the 12^th Judicial Dist of Ky

To his Excellency
The Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Granville Watts respectfully showeth & represents that at the August Term of the Rockcastle Circuit Court ^1862^ that he confessed Jugt. for $20. & cast upon an Indictment against him for keeping a tipling-houseretailing ardent spirits — that he settled with the Aty for the Com'lth & his fee and had a petition drawn & forwarded to your Excellency Signed ^by^ the Circuit Judge & the Atty for the Commonwealth — but never having heard from his petition. he supposes the same is lost or owing to some cause has never come to hand. and as the Circuit Judge is now a here on a visit your petitioner has concluded to forward this other petition; He alledges in this as in his former petition that the offense charged against him was unavoidable if an offense at all; He was a merchant at the time living on the State road west of Mount Vernon & other whilst the soldiers of both Armies passed in thousands: and he had some spirits to sell; which he sold under the Law not by the small, but when the Soldiers called on him he he was forced to let them to have it in any quanty they desired. which he done. getting nothing for it Generally — under the circumstances he prays a remission of the fine.

Very respectfully
Granville Watts

Rockcastle Cir. Ct

Lewis Buckner
Pett for remmit fine

$20 } Liquor

The fine in this case is remitted
J F Robinson

Is^dFeby 9 1863