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To his Excellency Beriah Magoffin the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky --
Your Petitioner Susan Wilson Most respectfully represents that she was indicted & tried in the City Court of Louisville on a charge of Keeping a disorderly house and fined on the rd day of March 1862
Also on the rd of June
She states that it is true she had in her house certain inmates, young women, about four in number, who paid their board to her, and who in all probability, from time to time were of bad behavior -- The Indictments were preferred on this account --
She states that as soon as she could move she left that neighborhood and the alleged nuisance was abated -- She now lives in anothervicinity and has no boarders, and no complaint exists against her --
She states to your Excellency that her health is bad, that she is very poor, that the times are hard that she has no property except her household furniture, no money, and to pay these fines would render her a pauper and a burthen to the City.
She has no way of satisfying them except by confinement at hard labor in the workhouse at 75 cents a day --
She is too infirm by reason of bad health for that sort of treatment.
She therefore, in view of the premises prays your Excellency to remitthesetwofines, And promises that she will not in future give cause of complaint & she will ever &c --
Susan Wilson
Address
Clerk of City Court
Louisville Ky
We do not ask for a remission -- but think that a reasonable Respite should be granted
W. G. Reasor
Geo W Johnston
Louisville City Ct
$25.
$50 } Disorderly House
Susan Wilson
Respd 9 Mo
Issd