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 November 11, 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-0001-004-0654 BR10-4 to BR10-5

Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky Morganfield, Union County, Kentucky 1864-04-23 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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SAM. C. HUGHES ATTORNEY AT LAW, MORGANFIELD, KY.

Will practice in the Courts of Union and the adjoining Counties. All Collecting Business promptly attended to.

Morganfield, Ky. April 23 1864 Gov. Bramlette Dr Sir

Enclosed you find the petition of some of our very best citizens & officers, signed in behalf of a loyal, and law abiding old Gentleman Mr Joseph Sprague is the entire owner of the tavern. He will have the whole amount to pay, unless you in your clemency remit it.

Mr Sprague is one of the tried loyal men of the county, an old gentle man of unexceptional character, and would

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have been the last man in Union County to knowningly violate the laws of the land.

My uncle W G Hughes was county judge, just previous to the expiration of his license, and after his death, and before my election to the office, Mr Sprague made application at a regular term of the County Court and was assured, by the acting clerk, that his application under the circumstances was sufficient and to go on in his business

Be tween that and the time of my election which was only 6 days, he was afterwards indicted

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for keeping a tipling house.

The very ^1st term^day I was I held he obtained license.

It would indeed be a hardship to permit this fine to be collected by capias profine under the circumstances

These facts of course could not go to the jury

Yours &c Sam C Hughes

P S. Mr Thos S Chapman was the county clerk at the time, and he has signed as you will perceive the petition

Yours &c S C H