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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-0001-020-1901 MG23-328

Oldham County, Kentucky Oldham County, Kentucky Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. 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 Excellecy B Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Oldham County would respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the April Term 1862 of the Oldham Circuit Court, V. Ackerman was fined in the sum of Sixty dollars upon an Indictment charging him with keeping a tipling house, The evidence conduced only to show that nearly twelve months previous to the finding of the Indictment the accused had on two occasions sold wine at his house & received pay for it, We are satisfied from the statements of Mr. Ackerman that he was wholly ignorant of his error. He is the owner of a vineyard and manufactured the wine he sold. He is a foreigner by birth, and wholy unacquanted with the laws of this Country, He is moral & , & honest in all his business transacting. so far as we have ever heard and the coersion of this fine together with the costs would be a severe loss to himself and family, We therefore ask your Excellency to remit the said fine & will ever pray &c

J. W Clayton Cty attorney S E W. C. Maithan Cir. Ct. Clk A I Oldham Co. Clk T Basye L A Rodman cty Judge R A Logan Comth atto protempere James Heepwood

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Remitted B.M

Oldham Cir Ct $60 } Tipling V. Ackerman IssdMay 14. 1862