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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-0001-004-0722 BR10-103 to BR10-104

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To his excellency Thomas E. Bramlette Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner M. N. Elison respectfully represents to your excellency that at the present term of the Whitley Circuit Court he was fined the sum of twenty Dollars for having atcd as bar keeper for himself Wm Davis James Cutberth without being sworn as ^the law requires^ he states that in consequence of the rebel raids into Whitley County the did not publick books had not been sent into Whitley County ^as petitioner believes^ and consequently he did not know that there was any law requiring that he should be sworn nor did Mr Cutbirth was enquiriner know it He asks therefore that your excellency interpose your pardoning power and remit said fine he states James Cutberth had taken out a license to Keep a tavern

M. M. Elison says the statements of the foregoing petition are true

M M Elison

Sworn to before me by M M Elison this 4th day of April 1864 J C Watkins Clk J L McCarthy S. W. C

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Gov. Bramlette I believe M M Ellison innocently violated the law as it was not generally known that others then the Tavern Keepers themselves were required to take an oath H. F. Finley Granville Pearl

M. M. Elison Petition Whitley Cir Ct Tipling $20