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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-0001-020-2004 MG23-475 to MG23-476

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky 1862-06-23 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 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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JOURNAL OFFICE Louisville, Ky June 23 1862 Hon Beriah Magoffin Dear Sir

Two young men minors named John T Macauley and Wm McCullogh were fined $10 each last week for bathing within the city limits They are strangers in the city and just recovered from sickness They bathed by medical advice and were warned that it must be done beyond certain limits, and they thought they were beyond them the absence of malicious intent the excellent character of Macauley whom I know personally and the inbility of a widowed mother to pay the

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fine induce me to request that you will remit them. If the case were not so plain I could procure hundreds of names, in favor of such a course

Yours truly James S Wallace

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Remitted B. M.

June 24" 1862 Entered