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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-0001-004-2499 BR15-472

1865-10-16 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To his excellency T. E. Bramlette Govenor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Respectfully represents that at the october term 1865 of the Wayne Circuit court a judgment was rendered against him in favor of the commonwealth of Kentucky for the sum of Sixty Dollars upon an indictment against him for suffering gaming, He further represesents that he had in the transaction for which he was indicted no intention or belief that he was violating the laws of the State, At the game of hazard played one lb of sugar was the nominal Stake, That the game was one purely of amusement and neither money or property changed hands by reason of Said game, And in addition to these facts he did not consider that he was in any sense the lessee or occupyer of the room when said game was played, That he was induced to agree to a judgement of the aforesaid amt. to avoid danger of a large recovery as the proof in legal effect might have shown him to be one of the Controllers of Said room That not being learned in the law he did not know at the time that he could be so considered, He asks your excellency to remit Said judgment. Oct 16th 1865

A B Blankenship

Sworn to and subscribed by A B Blankenship before me this 16th October 1865.

Jno L. Sallee clk

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We concur in the Statements of the the within petition and that it a proper case for Executive clemency

Jno L Sallee C H Buster L R Jones W. A. Buster J B Dick H, T, Hall James A Phillips

I Concur in the prayer of the Petitioner

Jno J Vanwinkle James L Hardin

Wayne Cir Ct vs A B Blankinship $60, Gaming Remitted. 19 Oct 1865