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To his Excellency.
Thomas. E. Bramlette
Governor of the Commonwealth of Ky. Your petition respectively states that at the present term of Bourbon Circuit Court he was find the sum of Sixty Dollars. for Keeping a Tipling House -- He states the proof on which said finding was renderd. -- was as follows, the debt for years before the finding had obtained an at the time of Finding against him he had A Licnce to Keeke A Regular Hotel on the premises situated in the County of Bourbon and on the Covington and Lexington Rail Road, near to shawhan station that In consequen^ce^ of his Dwelling house being small he built a small distance than from but on his own premises small Cabin in which he Kept his Bar that in doing so he did not Know that he was violating the Laws of his Country and during all this time. It was proven of that He Keept Comfortable Country Hotel.
Wharefore your petitioner respectfully praised your Excellency to pardon so much if therefore as the Law permits you to do.
G, F, Lilley
we subcribers respectively Join within pittion
W W Allexander
Isaac Keller Juror
J W Vanhook Juror
Ja. M. Meng Juror
W. D. Payne Juror
S W Collins Juror
H Clay Hutchcraft Juror
R T Davis Juror
A, S, Thomson S, B, C
The foregoing is a truthful statement of the evidence, and I do not beleive that Lilley Knew that he acting in violation of Law
Respectfully
W. S. Downey
Bourbon Cir Ct
vs
G. F. Lilley
$60.
Tipling
Remitted th Oct 1865