To His Excellency Thos E Bramlett

Your petitioner hereto state that at the last March Term of the Ohio Circuit Court they were found guilty of keeping a tippling house and fined sixty dollars.

They hereto state that they petitioners go before court, indulging the hope that they would be , but recd no answer presuming that you failed to give any Relief on account of the trial not being had they again appeal to your clemency They Reiterate the statements in their former petition which was sworn to by both parties to wit John Roley & W P Downs. The statements in former were substantially then, that they were keeping and selling goods as merchants on a very small scale & obtained license from the Government and thought they had the right to sell and did for a short time publicaly & privately The assessor thought they had the right. They had license as merchants from the County Court also The Sheriff of the County presumed to know said he had the right to sell and it was the understanding generally and believing it we sold by the drink and otherwise, we sold out liquor and goods & quit. These facts are true -- we are for man and the penalty falls very heavy on us. The Judge said on defence was not good in court, but under Law to appeal to you. We earnestly petition for Executive Clemency -- Mr Roley does not sign this because he lives a long ways from town --