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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-0001-020-1236 MG21-92 to MG21-93

Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky Carlisle, Nicholas County, Kentucky 1861-07 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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To His Excellency, Beriah MaGoffin, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky --

Your Petitioner, John Murphy, would respectfully state, That at the March Term 1860, of the Nicholas Circuit Court, your Petitioner was -- fined Sixty dollars under an Indictment, for Keeping a Tippling House, and the proof to establish the charge was the testimony of a single witness, that he had bought & drank liquor in your Petitioner's store, on several occasions -- and that witness was an enemy of your Petitioner, as stated in his original petition more than a year ago.

Your Excellency respited said Judgement for 12 months excepting the costs and fees, which have been paid -- and your Petitioner again respectfully asks your Excellency to remit the balance of the fine unpaid which, is Forty dollars, as the Respite has expired -- He refers to his original Petition and the list of signers, and will take it as a great favour, being nothing more than justice to himself, if your Excellency will remit the same.

John Murphy. Carlisle, July 1861.

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Nicholas Cir. Ct $60. } Tipling John Murphy

Remission IssdAug 15. 1861