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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-0001-020-1377 MG21-314

Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky 1861-09-20 Correspondence English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Will Practice in Mason and adjoining Counties, also in District and Federal Courts and Court of Appeals.

Collections in any part of Northern Kentucky will receive prompt attention.

R. H. STANTON. THOS. J. THROOP. STANTON & THROOP, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Maysville, Ky, Sep 20 1861

My dear Governer,

Sometime ago, young Mr Alexander H Cummins of this place, was indicted in the Woodford Circuit Court for larceny, and held to bail in the sum of $500, with Andrew M. January, Isaac Whittington and Mm W. Whittington as his suretees. At the April Term of said Court, the bail bond was forfeited. As I have heard the Circumstances, it is probable that no larceny was committed or intended to be committed, the boy having been intoxicated at the time, the affair occuring in the middle of the day at a public hotel, and the valise, which is said to have been stolen, only thrown into the street without being carried off or any attempt to do so, If judgment goes against the sureties, it will have to be paid by Mr Wm H. Cummins of this place, a worthy and respectable gentleman

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with a large family and small means. If he has it to pay, it will sweep every thing he has. I therefore respectfully ask that you will remit the forfeiture of the bond, and thus confer a great favor upon Mr Cummins,

Respectfully Your friend R H Stanton

Hon B. Magoffin,