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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-0001-020-0902 MG19-434

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To His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the state of Kentucky

Your Petitioners citizens of Mason County Kentucky would respectfully represent unto your Excellency that on the 6th the day of March October AD 1860. Marquis De. Layfayette Collins was convicted of a breach of the Peace before Wm P. Ray Esq. a justice of the Peace in and for Mason county aforesaid. and fined the sum of Fourteen Dollars. Your Petitioners would represent that the said Collins is a boy aged about Eighteen Dollars years and that he is very poor. that his Parents are also very poor and unable without sacrificing some of their household furniture to pay said fine That the Father & Mother of said Collins became bail for him for the payment of said fine which is now about due. and unless they are relieved therefrom by the act of your Excellency they will lose all they have. In view therefrom of all the facts in the case your Petitioners would resepctfully reuqest your Excellency to release John Collins & Tabitha Collins from the payment of said Bail

R. M. Marshall

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William Forman Wilfred Ball M A Mullikin Willis Ballenger Samuel P Combess M I. Collins J. W. Gault Thos. Stevenson Lewis Jefferson James S Bratton Manuel Matilla Charles E Dye James Anderson Jefferson Watson John Piles Abner Hall M. T Dise W S Fowler J C Wheeler J, S, White Thos Dye Thomas. R. Griffith James. D. Bratton David Douglas Jas H Grigsby S C, Watson John Wheeler B. E. Pumpelly Wm R Browning John S Ball H B Cracraft Alfred Terrel Charles B Carrol John Riley

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Mason J P Respite 20 mo B. M $14 } Breach Marquis De Lafayette Collins IssdApr 17 1861