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 November 11, 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-0001-004-3040 BR43-152

Breckinridge County, Kentucky Breckinridge County, Kentucky Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Breckinridge Circuit Court The Commonwealth of Kentucky Plaintiff against } Indict William May Defendant

The Grand Jury of Breckenridge County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse William May of the offense of permitting divers persons to play divers games with cards in a house which he then and there was occupying and had the control of, and at which games, money and property were bet won and losst, committed as follows, viz

The said William May in the day of May 1862 & on five days since, in the County aforesaid, unlawfully permitted William Hannah, William Hanny, John Hannah, John Hanny, Hillary Mattingly, Samuel Bud, Joseph R Pulliam, himself, and others whose names in the Grand Jury aforesaid are unknown to play divers games with cards in a house which was then & there occupied by the said May & under his control and at which ^games^ money and other property were bet, won and lost, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky-

Information by Wm. Hanny Joseph R Pulliam Summon for the Commonwealth, Hillery Mattingly and Samuel Beard.

A Copy Attest: Gideon P Jally Clerk B C C By Geo H Jolly D C

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Commonwealth vs. } Copy of Indict William May.

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