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To his Excellency James F. Robinson, Govenor of Kentucky,

Your petitioner John Haley, says that he is a laborer, and has no other means of support than by his manual occupation as a day laboror; that he has a widowed mother dependent upon him for sustenance; that recently within the last few days he was wrongfully and unjustly charged with selling spiritous liquor to slaves, arrested and tried before Lewis L. Hawkins, a justice of the peace for Mason County, for said alleged offense; but he says they failed to prove said offense against him, and one witness proved that he had drank liquor at petitioner's house, he did not prove that he had paid for it, and the said justice fined him $20 and the costs. He says he never sold or gave liquor to slaves and he never retailed the same to any person, that he is poor and the payment of said fine & costs will be a great hardship upon him. He therefore respectfully asks your excellency to remit the same,

May 18th 1863.,
John R. Haley

The undersigned unite with M^r Haley in asking the said fine may be remitted,

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Sidney Thomas
John F Taft
Jackson Rye
Jos Jones
David L Winter
Eldridge M^acElbresh
John Briant
John Kindel
W Jones
James Wilson
Edmond Sullivan
Peter Molloy
Andy Toben
Michael Slatery
John A Jones
L J Green
James S Pepper
Thomas Buckley

Direct your response to Minerva Mason Co Ky

Jno. R. Haley
Pettn to remit fine
Mason County
Refused