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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-0001-004-2348 BR15-251

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Thomas J & James A Akin To his excellency Thomas E Bramlett Govenor of Kentucky

Your petitioners respectfully represent to your Excellency that on the day of 1864 Thomas J & James A Akin were indicted by the Grandjury for Boone county on a charge of Selling Keeping a tipling house in Boone County The defendants were brought to trial at the aprile term 1865 of the circuit Court for said County and did consent that a ^joint^ judgment might go against them for Sixty Dollars which was thereupon entered and now stands of record in Said court

Your petitioners State that the offence for which Said Akins were indicted was commited by them as follows to wit by selling a small quantity of Blackbery Cordial made by themselves. That at the time the cordial was sold they believed that the right to sell it and that there was no law against it And that So Soon as they found that it was a violation of the law they quit it The Akins are each poor men having no surplus meas, but

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are compelled to earn their living for themselves, & families by their own personal labor, Your Petitioners believe it would be a great hardship for the ^said^ Akins to be forced to pay said judgment, under the circumstances and they respectfully present this case as one suitable fo the interposition of executive clemency by the remission of the fine before referrd to

F Riddell R. C. Green Conty atty Robt F Coleman

County Judge I believe the state of facts are true and join in the prayer

Lewis W. Webb County Clerk James Calvert M. B. Greene

Boone Cir Ct vs Thos J & J A Akin $60, Tipling Remitted 18th Sept/65

Sent for fee 9 Sept