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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-0001-004-0718 BR10-98

Ohio County, Kentucky Ohio County, Kentucky 1864-03-09 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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To His Excellency Gov Bramlette

Your petitioners John Raley and W P Downs would state to your Excellency that they are indicted in the Ohio Circuit Court for Keeping a Tippling house, and they have given a truthful statement of the case. They say that they are doing a very small business in their neighborhood in merchandise. They state that their business was very limited as their means are and are both being in very poor circumstances -- They now trading as partners. Like many others they got license to sell as merchants and are mistaken as to the privileges they are entitled to. They say that they get license from Jacob Leach as assessor or made or made application to him and procured the license to sell whiskey from W H Miller. Col collector both being United States officers. They positively assert that they honestly thought they had the right to sell and did sell publicly and by the glass and otherwise as purchases would want. They state that they asked different persons and they all thought that petitioners had the Right to sell and this too was the opinion of the sheriff of the county for they

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asked his opinion. They paid twenty dollars to the officers aforesd.

They sold for about three months, dissolved and quit the business and are not now engaged in merchandising but are at work which they understand better and hope it will prove more profitable. They pray your Excellency for relief. The court is the 4th Monday in March present month. The foregoing is a truthful statement and they do pray your Excellency for relief by the time the court comes.

John ^his X mark^ Raley W P. Downs

Sworn to before me this 9th day of March 1864 by John Raley ^W. P. Downs^ atto A. L. Morton Clk Ohio Cir Ct

Remit except fees & costs Thos E Bramlette