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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-0001-020-1902 MG23-329

1862-04-25 Petition 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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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Esq Gov of Kentucky

Your humble Petitioner would respectfully represent that at the term of the Morgan Circuit Court he was fined Sixty dollars, that your Excellency did him the special favor on the 27th March 1861 to respite the above fine -- the respite now being out the Sheriff is pressing your petitioner for the satisfaction of the fine which having been repleved and amounts to $92.35 cts charging interest from the 17th day of May 1859 Your Petitioner would further state that he has no recollection of ever selling the whisky for which he was fined, that the witness who indicted him was hiis personal enemy and made the indictment as your petitioner believes through malice, He would further state that he is a poor farmer encumbered with the care of a large family, and if he is forced to pay this fine he will be reduced to almost poverty, Therefore he asks your excellency ^to^ remit the said fine and its interest, and relieve an humble citizen of this onerous debt that he

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may be enabled to provide for his family and discharge that duty toward his country that is due from every citizen April 25th 1862.

Soleman Back.

We the undersigned Join in the foregoing petition with Soleman Back and ask your Excellency to remit the said fine -- as asked in the peition. April 25th 1862

Joseph Gardner B. F. Howard D D Sublett William Craft . W. Martin Henry G. Hager John Samuels

Fine Sixty Dollars Morgan Circuit

Dear Govr. above please find petition to your Excellency -- the petitioner is one of ourfriends and is a very poor but honest man; therefore I ask you to remit his fine and send to your friend, Truly

D D Sublett

Salyerville Magoffin co Ky