<title type="main">J. E. Cooper et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette

To his Excellency Govenor Thos E Bramlett

Your PetitionerJohn Hagans Respectfully States that at the September Term of the Magoffin Circuit Court 1863 that there was a Judgment rendered in Said Court in favor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and against your Petitioner John Hagans for the sum of, ($7800) seventy eight dollars and cost of the proceeding in Said Court, Said fine was rendered against your Petitioner Hagans under these circumstances (Viz)

your Petitioner made application to the county court of Magoffin County for a change in the Public highway runing ^on the land^ near the Mansion of Said Hagans, and the court awarded him an order to make Said change, He immediately proceeded to make Said change in the Said road and in making the same he run his fense across the old road before the viewers of said road filed their report to the Court States that after Said road was completed Said County Court refused to accept the same, and the county attorney told your Petitioner that if he would make a Small change at the lower end of said road that then the Court would receive the same which your Petitioner immediatelty done and thought that Said road was received by said Court according to the contract entered into by the attorney for the county and this Petitioner

Your Petitioner Hagans believed that he would have no further difficulty about Said road. and he says that he was ignorant of the law in such cases and placed implicit confidence in the county attorney Statements-- and from the statements of the attorney for the county, he thought nomore about said road believeing that it was all fixed up according to the laws of the country, he therefore asks your Excellency to remit said fine of $7800 and that all officers and persons be prohibited from the collection of the same

The under Signed Petitioner Joins in the prayer with said Hagans for the remission of said fine, and asks your Excellency to remit said fine and that all persons be prohibited and restrained from the collection of the Same, they State that said Hagans, like many others is tolerably poor

Wherefore they pray as above & will forever pray for the remision of said fine Dec 20th 1863,

J, E, Cooper Wallis Baley, Clk, M, C, C B F Howard Ds M. Co R L Cooper Isaac, C, Howard Thomas B Cooper Stephen ^his X mark^ Arnett Havila Cook Joshua Bays W H Harris John Samuels James Gullett Isiah Salyer Richard Whitt Solomon C Bently