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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-0001-020-0900 MG19-432

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To His Excellency, Beriah Magoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your Petitioner would Respectfully represent that at the Term of the Whitley Circuit 185 -- He was fined in Said Court The Sum of $20, upon a charge of violating the Laws against gaming

Your Petitioner States that he is not agambler by practice, nor profession, that he sometimes plays cards for amusement, and upon the occasion upon which the charged was based others had been in the Game, and one of whom desiring to quit, your Petitioner, took his hand, and played a few games, not knowing at the time, that he was violating any Law which imposed a fine for so playing

Your Petitioner would further represent that he is an exceedingly poor man, -- that he has a wife and three small children that in these oppressive times to raise money it is utterly impossible for him to pay the Same, together with the costs, That he has replevied the same, and without the interposition of Your Excellency's Clemency, Your petitioners Securities must pay the same, or Petitioner's family must be reduced to abject want. The Prayer of the Petitioner is that your Excellency remit said fine

James Underwood

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Whitley Cir Ct Petition of James Underwood

Respite 12 mo B. M. $20 } Gaming

Iss Apr 11 1861