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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-0001-020-0843 MG19-325

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Govr. of Kentucky

Your petitioner Benj. Fuel would respectfully represent, That he was fined for carrying concealed, a deadly weapon a pistol in the city court of Louisville about October 1859, & shortly afterwards petitionid yr Excellency to remit his fine, which petition has not been as yet acted upon, the matter has been permitted to slumber until yesterday,, when the Officer, a city Marshall, took him in custody & committed him to the Workhouse on a Ca, Sa. The former petition stated as a fact, that the petitioner was a driver of an Omnibus to the Louisville & portland Rail Road & was frequently thus engaged until ten or 12 oclk at night at such times he carried a Small pistol to protect himself agst. harm & whilst returning from his stable on one Occasion he was met & arrested by a policeman presented to the city court & subsequently fined $50 -- the costs amounting now to upwards of $20, ^is pd^ which The Fine he is wholly unable to pay, he further says he is by trade a Blacksmith & has been working at that business for several

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months, without being able to do more than support himself wife & two children, the times are hard, business from various causes has been stopped & poor men with families have great difficulty to barely subsist, there can be no advantage to any one by confining him & depriving his family of his services now, Therefore he prays Your excellency to remit his fine, his acquaintances will tesfity to his good character & your petitioner will ever pray &c

Respectfully yr obt Sevt Benjamin Fuel

13th Mar 1861

We the undersigned pray yr Excellency to remit Fuels fine & we will be thankful

respectfully yr friends M. G. Halmes

It would be well to relieve his fine,

C D Pennebaker W P Boone R. T. Lightburn N. C. Howard H. C. Thomas John Enlow

I know young Fuel he is verry poor & unable to pay a fine, he is now in the work House

Geo. W. Johnston.