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To the Honorable
Thomas E. Bramlette
Governor of Kentucky:
Your Petitioner would most respectfully represent that at the present &cHe was tried and fined in the sum of Fifty Dollars; upon the charge of keeping a disordrly house he was fined in the sum of One Hundred Dollars and upon the charge of keeping a tippling house he was fined in the sum of One Hundred Dollars. He would most respectfully represent that he has not been a wilful violator of the laws of the state, but that these violations have grown out a combination of unfriendly persons and perhaps to a considerable extent out of his ignorance. He desires to be a law-abiding and good citizen rather to support and defend the laws of his state and government than to infringe in
the least.
He further represents that he is a poor man who is wholly and solely dependant upon his daily labor for the support of himself and his family and if compelled to pay the fines inflicted herein would have to be confined to jail for the same and his family must certainly suffer, And no view of these times of pecuniary trouble Hhe prays at your Excellency's hands a remission of said fines thus imposed against him except fees and costs and he will ever pray &c --
Wm ^his X mark^ Lamphier --
Attest
Jas. C. Morris --
We, the undersigned would recommend the remission of the above fines except fees & costs --
Jno B Norton
Chas F Lowry
Jno B Huston
Jos Wingate
L Gibbon
G. Stall Jr
John Carty
John Hutchison
I am a neighbor of Mr Lamphiers & would recommend that the fines be remitted} = Jas C. Morris
John J. Miller
W. L. Downey