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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-0001-004-0712 BR10-88 to BR10-89

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To the Excelence of the govenor your Petitioner Elias Bryant wold Respictively Repesent to your Excelence that at the August terme of the Whitley Circuit Court at 18613 that the Grand Jury of Whitley county found an enditement against your petitioner for selling liquor by the Quarte that he as a distiller had maid & manfactured that the Liquer was not sold or drunk on his pimeress that he sold the liquer beleaving that he had a Right to Sell and to let it be drunk wheare Sold if not drunk on his primises he say at the present March terme he come in to court and plea gilty and submited the law and acts to the court and the court Rendered Judgement against him for the amount of twenty dollars he states that he acted in good faith and did not do any thing but what he beleaved at the time he had a Right to do he states that he quite selling as soon as he found he was vialating the law and that he had no instruction of vialating the law he thare for pays your Excelence to Remit the fine and to interpose and set the judgement asid and to Pardon your Petitioner as he had no interest of any ofence and to pardon him for this offence and for all Proper Releaf

Elias Bryant

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Sworn to before me by Elias Bryant this 18th day of April 1864 James Criscilli J P

The undersigned say that thay beleave that the foregoing petition contains the truth and that Elisas Bryant is a good citizen and had no intent of volating the law and thinks it wol be an act of charity to Remit said fine

James Criscillio Jerymiah Meadows A. Q. Curd T. J. Meadors Wm Hunicut M. E. White C. S. Crockman J. L. McCurty S. W. C. J C Watkins clk P Meadors Wm Patrick Samuell Denham A. C. King S. P. Brawner John Smith trustee of Jury fund

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Whitley Cir Ct vs Elias Bryant Tipling

Remit except fees & costs Tho E Bramlette

$20 28th Apl/64