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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-0001-020-1808 MG23-176 to MG23-177

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1862-04-23 Correspondence 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 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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Lousiville Ky April 23d 1862 Hon B Magoffin, Your Excellecy:

There is a woman named Betsy Riley, free woman of color, now confined in the Work-House on a charge of keeping an assignation house, in penalty of 75 cts per day for $5000/00. The charge was made by a visitor to the house, and as she has served more than half the term, I, at the solicitation of her husband, respectfully petition for her release. So far as I am informed, it is certainly a malicious act upon the part of the informer. With the utmost respect your

Most Obt Servant Geo B Baum

To B Magoffin Esq Gov Kentucky Frankfort

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Louisville City Ct $50. } Mis -- Betsy Riley Remission IssdMay 17. 1862