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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-0001-020-1919 MG23-354 to MG23-355

Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky 1862-05-23 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "3": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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Georgetown Ky May 23d/62 To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin Governor of Kentucky

The undersigned citizens of Scott county would respectfully represent to your favorable notice the petitioner H W Chiles -- and state that he has been fined Thirty dollars in these cases in the Scott circuit court for liquor sold at his bar by a black man in his employ as waiter &c. to other blacks -- The cases stand on the Docket Nos 271-272 & 273 -- Also in the cases before the Town judge of Georgetown -- in two cases for the same offences -- the sum of fifty Dollars in each case, As Mr Chiles is a poor man -- and the costs from which he has no relief is a considerable buden to him we would

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most respectfully petition your excellency to remit all of said fines that you can consistently do --

J. C. Applegate H C White J. E. Applegate Bat T Thompson Wm A Lindsay C H Jenkins Wm C White J. J. Cantrell. Sheriff James Patton T. N. Finnell Webb Ress Ge Jeffords J E Cromwell H Y Cuyarns L C Robards Jas. Harrison L, C, Stephens C O Kenney J R Meryman Geo. E. Prewitt A W Forwood E M Blackburn Lewis Vest J G Craddock Jno R. Moreland H. Clay Shelton W Burns J. L. Lemon John E Thewitt John S. M. Lemon P. Thomas J. C. Smith George W Offutt James Y Kelly Robert A White A B Barkey E. Kelley Eli Lucas T. P. Nutter

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J Morrison J J. W McGoffin D B Crumbaugh A Thomas Wm W Abbott W S Darnaby G W Finnell Thos W Hughes Saml W. Thompson P. Thomson W H Story C. Vest S P. Thomson A Duvall

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Remitted B. M.

Scott Cir Ct $30 3 cases } liquor Geo. Town Po. Ct $50 2 cases } liquor H W Chiles

Iss May 26 1862