To your Excellency James F. Robinson
Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned would represent to your Excellency that a judgment has been rendered at the present April term of the Pendleton Circuit Court against John Myers an old and respectable citizen of this County, for the sum of two hundred dollars on a forfeited Recognizance as bail for a certain King Plummer under a charge of Bigamy. That the recognizance was forfeited at the October Term 1862 of the Pendleton Circuit Court, and a summons ordered thereon, That owing to the disturbed condition of the Country at that time, in consequence of the Rebel invasion and occupation Pendleton County, which continues up to a short time before said term of the Court, and the consequent occupation of the County by the Federal Army at the time the term was to be held and the establishment of Martial law, it was not supposed by the bar, nor by the community that any court would be held, that, in fact, no regular term of the Court was held, but the judge attended and opened Court but no juries were impannelled and no cases tried, that if the fact that the Court would have been held had been known the ^said trial^ could have procured the attendance of the said Plummer in discharge of his bail,+ + And we further state that the defendant Plummer was present at the present term of the Court and urged a trial but the Commonwealth was not ready,^ It is therefore respectfully asked by the undersigned members of the bar of said Court, that all of the judgment except fees & costs be remitted to said Myers, and Plummer,

Saml. L. Swoope
E, A, W, Roberts
Jn^o[Ramsey]
W. C, Marshall
O. D. [M^cNamara]
R B Carpenter
Comths Atty
G. Shu Hauser

Pendleton Cir Ct
$200 } Recog
Forfeiture & Judgment remitted
J F Robinson
John Myers
Iss^dMay 13^th 1863