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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-0001-020-2152 MG24-242

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To the Honorable Beriah Magoffin Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioners would respectfully represent to your Honor, That, Whereas one John McGuire has been fined twenty dollars ($20) in the Carter Ciruit Court for a breech of the penal laws of this state, Now your petitioners would respectfully represent that said John McGuire is a poor man with a family and we think it would be a great hardship for him to have to pay said fine We respectfully represent it as a case deserving your clemency and as dutiful citizens pray your Honor to remit said fine and we will ever pray &c.

C. E. Hood T T Mobley T. C. Eastham James White E Cook Willis Bagby F R. Kitchen E. P Davis R. P. White C D Horton Jas Kitchen B F Crawford L. H. Elliott J. F. Cox Odom Cox John Riggs H N Richardson John Grizzel Amos D Goble B F Shepherd J. W Scott C N Lewis Wesley Cook R D. Womack H. K. Osenton Jas W Thompson G. W. Littlejohn

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Jno McGuire

$20

Rejected Tho P Porter