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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-0001-020-1735 MG23-55 to MG23-56

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Honorable Beriah Magoffin Governor of the State of Kentucky:

Your Petitioners Benjamin McMurtry and Alonzo Murry would state to His Excellency that during the year 1861 they rented to John York a room above their business house in the City of Lexington and said room was to be used as a bed room, and an agreement was drawn up by a lawyer that no gaming of any sort, whatever, should be permitted in the room -- At the march term 1862 in the City Court of Lexington your petitioners Benj McMurtry and Alonzo Murry were indicted in the City Court for suffering Farro to be dealt and for permitting gaming -- Your petitioners immediately inquired in to the cause of action against them and found that Farro had been dealt in Said John Yorks room and gaming had been permitted; and your petitioners in order to have no further trouble consented that judgment should go against them, and they would appeal to His Excellency for relief -- In the case of suffering Farro in their house Your petitioners were fined $500 00; in the case of permitting gaming they were fined $200 00 -- Your petitioners do not

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ask this remission as a matter of Clemency but as an action of justice -- They are both young men commencing life upon a small capital earned by themselves, and for them to pay these fines in which they had no interest and of which they as landlord had no Knowledge would be heavey in the extreme -- Your petitioners trust his Excellency will give them all proper relief -- and they will ever pray &c

Benjamin McMurtry Alonzo murry

We the undersigned would recommend the within petitioners to the Clemency of His Excellency Beriah Magoffin Govenor of the State of Kentucky --

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Remitted B. M. Lexington Cir. Ct $500. } Faro $200. } Gaming

IssdMar. 19. 1862

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