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To His Excellency
Governor Thos E Bramlette
Your Petitioner William Book states that he is a peaceable quiet man & claims to be a good citizen obeying the law & eschewing rioting routs or unlawful assemblies,
He states he had an old fashioned fisticuff in Harrodsburg & was fined for indulging in that old timed custom the sum of Ten Dollars before his honour Judge Edwards of the Mercer Quarterly Court. He states he was not in fault in the said fisticuff and made no serious breach of the peace though his breeches suffered much & a slight inscission on his adversaries eyebrow was about the only serious damage done -- The fight causing much merriment & no terror to the good citizens of the Town of Harrodsburg
He is very poor has a large family & asks as winter is coming on for a remission of his fine in justice & mercy
And as in duty bound will ever pray &c
Jas, E Thompson
M. B. Curtis
James Tomlinson
B. F. Hardwick
City atterney
F. H. Hardin P J T. H
B Magoffin
John Hatcher
Richard Board Clerk
Mercer Circuit Court
Mercer Quar Ct
vs
Wm Wood
$10.
Breach Peace
Remitted