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To his Excellency Thomas E Bramlette
Gov of Kentucky
Your petitoner stats that he is an orphan boy, a citizen of Magoffin County and is very poor and has no estate and was fined, by the present term Circuit Court of this County Sixty Dollars for tipling under the following Circumstances, there was a negro man who was a slave of Reuben Arnett went to a house raising in Company with your petitioner and the said negro man had some whisky which he sold at the said house raising -- and as the said negro sold the whisky and your petitioner being in Company with him he was fined, this is the Substance of the proof in the case
Yours Respectfully
Thomas Whitely
Thomas Arnett
I am satisfied that the facts above are correctly stated & join in the petition
J. S. Dury Com th Aty.
Magoffin Cir Ct
vs
Thomas Arnett,
to } Pet from
Magoffin for Remission of fine of Sixty Dollars,
Remitted
$2 -- Enclosed for fee of remit
D D Sublett