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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-0001-004-1213 BR11-364 to BR11-365

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To Honorable Thomas, E, Bramlette Govenor of the state of Kentucky

Your petioners petitioners would respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the Aprile Term of the Boone circuit court, that the Grand jury of said county found an indictment against one F, I, Femeding an Inn keeper in town of Florence in said Boone County upon the statute for selling intoxicating drinks to minors, That testimony on trial shewed the offence to have been committed on one single occasion the witness stating that the defendant Femeding refused to sell him liquor until witness told him that he was sick and much in need of something by way of relief & that then defendant furnished the drink as desired, Your petitioners who were men on the jury which who brought in the verdict on the trial of the indictment ^pray^ that your excellency, in the exercise of a sound & wise discretion ought remit the fine against said defendant and as in duty bound your petitioners shall ever pray September 12th 1864

W, W, Hodges Foreman Benjamin Dulaney Waller Gooding Jeremiah Smith

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Ben Stephens William Collins John Gaines one of Jury James Rice Alfred Rucker Lewis Rice D M Smith John Louis

The proof on the trial was, in substance, as stated by the Jury

John L. Scott, Com. atty.

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Boone Cir Ct vs Petition of to Govr F, J, Femeding $50 Remit 21st Sept 1864