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To His Excellency Gov. Magoffin:
The undersigned would respectfully represent that O. B. Wiggins was fined the sum of $50 00 at the present term of the Kenton Circuit Court upon a plea of guilty to a charge of illegal voting -- Mr Wiggins has lived for more than two years in the same ward and in the same magisterial district, but just previous to the last August election he removed to a house a few squares distant from his former residence, and when the election came on he voted as usual -- He afterwards ascertained that he had moved across a line which had been established by the city council dividing the district into two voting precincts -- This line was established by an ordinance passed in the year has which has never been published among the ordinances of the city, but was to be found only among the records in the city Clerks office -- Mr Wiggins was wholly ignorant of the location of the line, and when he ascertained his mistake, he plead guilty to the charge and was fined as above stated -- We have known Mr. Wiggins for a long time, and can bear testimony to his honesty and correct deportment on in all the relations of life -- He could not have been induced to vote illegally had he known it; and we respectfully ask your Excellency to remit said fine to the extent of your power, and we will ever pray &c
R Simmons
R K Sumerwell
S C Perrin
John F Fisk
S H Cambron
W. E. Arthur Att'y for Com'th
D. Mooar
C. H. Mooar
J W Kennedy
A. Madeira
(I concur in the prayer of the above petition -- but I am not acquainted personally with M r Wiggins -- nor his residence at the time of the Augst Election.)
John S. Nixon
Kenton Cir Ct
Remitted
B. M
$50, } Illegal voting
O. B. Higgins
Issd