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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-0001-004-0946 BR10-454

1864-06-04 Petition English 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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Hon T E Bramlette Governor of Kentucky

Your Petitioner William G Rice would respectfully represent & state that He was Indicted in the Casey Circuit Court by the Grand Jury for standing a Stud Horse in the year 1862 without a License and Judgement rendered against him for twenty five Dollars for the offence a copy of sd Judgt is now filed with his petition. The facts of the case are these, in the year 1862 I had no stud horse of my own, a soldier left with me a stud horse to feed & pasture, who paid me for so ding and whilst I had said Horse I for the accomodation of my friends & Neighbours did let said Horse cover some mares but ^made^ no charge for his service to said Mares, nor did I publish to the neighbourhood that I would let said horse to Mares, the said Horse was kept by me about two months and his owner took him away in the month of June of sd year at my reelection

I admit service of the summons but have no recollection of it, nor did I know there was an Indictment or Judgement against me for the offence aforesaid until one day this week when the Sheriff called on me for the fine I made no defence to the prosecution

The premises considered I pray you will remit to me ^the^ fine aforsaid or ^grant^ such relief as my case merits &c June 4th 1864.

W. J. Rice Hiram Thomas

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 4th day of June 1864.

T. W. Wash Exr c c

We whose names are hereto subscribed from our acquainted with the Petitioner believe the above statements made by him are true

Joel Sweeney Hiram Thomas Elijah Coffey R B Wilkinson