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 November 11, 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-0001-020-0850 MG19-337

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governer of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Martin Raines would respectfully represent that at the August Term of the Whitley Circuit Court he with Wm Ellison was fined Ten dollars each for a breach of the peace. Having got a little tite he with others went past one of his neighbors houses & stoped in got their supper had a Jollificationof a him & spoke a fiew smartly words in presence of a woman there was no harm done no licks struck in fact no quarreling your petioner would represent that he is poor and unable to pay the fine He has a family to support and is one handed so that he is hardly able to support them -- He asks that you will remit the fine and he promises not to be guilty of a like offense again

Martin Raines

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Whitley Cir Ct $10 each } breach M. Raines Wm Ellison Remission Issd March 14. 1861