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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-0001-004-1113 BR11-202 to BR11-203

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To his excellency Thos E Bramlett Govenor of the commonwealth of Kentucky your Petitiner Oliver Barnett would respectfully represent that at the Last term of Lawrence circuit court he was fined Sixty dollars ($60) for retailing ardent Spirits your petitioner has these reasin why he thinks your excellency should remit Said fine

1st Said Indictment was made about the breaking out of this rebelion, and your petitioner volenteered in the 5th Vol Regt in the summer of 1861 and served in said Regt untill the summer of 1863, and then was discharged for physical Disability

2d your petiener was Labouring under the impression from the fact of the Length of time between the finding of the indictment and Judgment that Said prosecution was abandoned never their being no court after for a wile after court ^the rebellion broke out^

3d your petitioner further states that if he had known that said inditement was for trial at the Last term of the court, he had a valid defence, if he had not he would not trouble your excellency with this petition

4th Your petitioner would further state that he is a verry poore man and having ruined his constitution in fighting the battles of his coun-

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-try and should he be fourced to pay said fine it will be ruinous both to himself and family

Relying in your excellincys Mercy and the Justice of your petitioner's request he prays your excellency to remit said fine and in duty will ever pray &c

Oliver Barnett

We the subscribers Join in the prayr and endors the facts of the above petition

R. F. Vinson C L C C H. S. Bussey D. C. L, C, C J. B. Hutchison Capt. Capitol Guard J. W. Haws P, J, L, C, C K, F, Prichard Co, atty Wm Vinson Henry M Bond Peyton C Justice Harrison Hicks Jackson Pack J. Spaulding Charles Taylor An Green Archible Muncey Geo. du, Murry M. Dempsey A. J. Conley W M Conley Edmund Osburn Marion Castle Wm F Moore

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Lawrence Cir Ct vs O. Barnett Remit $60 8th Aug'/64