To his Excelency Jas. F. Robinson
Gov. of the Commonwealth of Ky.

The undersigned citizens of Webster County, Ky, would state & most respectfully represent unto your Excelency that the Webster Circuit at its present March Term, [co]-mencing on the 9^th day of March 1863 entered a Judgement against one Micager Cobb for [...] penal sum of $20⁰⁰ upon a charge of Selling liquor by retail without a licen therefor

They would state that said "liquor' was retailed at a sale that said Cobb before selling siad Liquor as charged asked & obtained the permission of N, N, Johnson the owner of the adjacent premises. That said Johnson granted to said Cobb the privildge of selling upon his land & told him that he would not be violating the Law in so doing & that said Cobb having further consulted one [...] a Justice of the peace in & for Webster county & being instructed by him in substance that if he (Cobb) had obtained the permission of Johnson to sell Liquor by retail on his Johnsons land ^that^ the he would not Violate the Law in so doing

They state that said Cobb has ever been a peaceful orderly & quiet citizens — that he is a very poor man — That he has a large & helpless family ^entirely^ dependent upon him for support & that they verily believe that said Cobb acted in the foregoing premise in honest faith believing that he was violating no Law & committing no wrong

Wherefore your petitioners would most

respectfully ask that said fine be remitted

Fondly hoping that your Excelency upon a due due consideration of the premises will take such action as is herein asked (in remitting said fine &c) yours petitioners will ever pray &c
Dixon Ky. March [...] 1863

John F. Galbraith