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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-0263 MG17-238

Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky 1860-12-18 Petition 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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Richmond, Ky. Dec. 18, 1860. To his Excellency, Gov'r B. Magoffin:

The undersigned, citizens of Madison County, Ky. would respectfully represent that Mr Robinson C. Forriss, of said County & State, was, at our last September Court, fined in the sum of twenty dollars & costs, under an indictment for gaming; that he is a poor, hard=working man, in no sense of the word, a gambler, that in the case for which he was fined, he was playng for pastime with some friends, the stakes being exceedingly small, (only 10cts.); that this was the first and only occasion of his ever having been arraigned before a jury; and that he intends to give no cause for any similar arraignment in future. We, therefore, in view of all the circumstances, and the inability of Mr F. to pay said fine and costs, without serious injury to him and his family of four children, petition your Excellency to interpose your Executive clemency, and relieve him and them to the extent you may deem just and proper.

Respectfully, &c. C, F, Burnam Wm L. Neale H, Clay, Sen W. T. Fox C A Hawkins Jas E Baker W Q Davis F P Dickerson W. M. Irvine R Runyon John Bennett Thomas F. Stone W. H. Caperton E J Broaddus

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Madison Cir. Ct. Respited 12 mos. $20 } Gaming R. C. Ferriss IssdDec 22d 1860