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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0528 BR9-336

Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky 1864-02-06 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Bowling Green Ky Feb. 6th 1864 To His Excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Gov. State of Kentucky

Your petitioner Mary W. Smith, would respectfully represent, that she confessed a judgment for Sixty Dollars, upon an Indictment for keeping a tippling House, at the present term of the Warren Equity & Criminal Court- The facts of the case are these -- She proposed to open a Hotel in the Town of Bowling Green and being a widow woman- employed a young man by name of J. R. Newton to attend to Her the business of said House and as such- to procure the necessary License for same, He obtained the municipal License for $150.00 and the United States License for $45.00 and thinking the License for keeping Said House complete, he failed to obtain the State License from the county Court ^$10.^ and never knew but what her License was complete, until she was indicted. She says she never intentionally violated the law and requests a remission of said fine at your hands --

M W Smith J. R. Newton

Sworn to before me by Mary W. Smith and J. R. Newton this Feb. 6th 1864

Wm F Cooke Examiner

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We the undersigned cheerfully unite with the petitioner in her prayer for the remission of the fine mentioned in the within

W. D. Helm D. W. Wright H H Skiles J C Mullins J. E. Halsell

Warren Co. Relief Refused Tho. E. Bramlette 64