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To His Excellency Thos E Bramlette Governor of the State of Kentucky
The petitioner Carrie Dumont would humbly state to your Excellency that on the th day of November 186500 on an Indictment in the City Court of Louisville: and it appears from an Execution now in the hands of the Marshall of said Court, that she was fined $60 00 & costs: She states that she appeared by atto in the said Court on that day: and she admits that she was fined as aforesaid $25. but she denies that she was ever tried & fined $60. 00 She says that She did not know about said last mentioned fine until the officer called upon her to pay it, and the Term of the Court had expired: and she is advised that the Court has no power now to correct said order:
She says that she is unable to pay the said fine: that for a long time She has been an invalid, and that the officers & Soldier of the Government some months ago took her house and all she had in it from her and that now she so reduced that she is unable to pay the above Executions
She states that her house was never complained by Citizen or police Officer, and she humbly prays your Excellency to interpose your clemency and remit to her the said fines and will every pray &c
Respectfully
Carrie Dumont,
we the undersigned Citizens respectfully join in the prayer of the Petitioner
Respectfully
Wm Hipwell
Louisville City Ct
vs
Carrie Dumont
$60,
Remitted th Dec/65