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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-0001-004-0910 BR10-399

Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky 1864-05-04 Correspondence 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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Paducah Ky May 4th 1864 Govr Bramlette Dr Sir

Mr Saml Miles the bearer of this visits you in distress -- about 8 or 9 months ago his son Wm Miles was arrested under a charge of three robberies in one night & held to bail in 1000$ each case when court sat in Ballard County Bill failed to come up & his bond with his father the bearer ^security^ was forfeited & since a Jugt went on These. Execution is in the sherrifs hands & levied on the old mans land & tobacco also he has & not enough to pay the Judt of $3000 in the aggregate. & is advertized for sale & so the old man & his wife are about to be harmless homeless -- the defendant Bill Miles has joined Forests band -- The old man as you will see is quite ignorant & I believe when he went security thought his son innocent, however I suppose he did what any parent would do -- from the evidence I cannot say any thing in favor of his son I only feel sorry for the father -- The old man comes up and wishes to pay any perquisites & get from you all the leniency you can properly show- The old gentleman has always born the name of an honest man as I am Told -- I suggest the propriety of letting him off with all that is coming

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to the state but $1000 & give him one year on that, it added to my perquisites will be $1900 -- I suggest further that if in a year he will produce Bill Miles for Trial to let him off with the $1000

Your ob P D Yeiser

P.S. I wrote you recently in regard to some respites you had given in Ballard & Graves countys for 1 year in which you made no savings for costs & my perquisites, so that now the sheriff will not levy for that much or clerks issue executions, I suppose this was an oversight -- further the fines respited were replevied & no provision made to hold the security in replevin bond the respite not withstanding --

Yeiser