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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-0001-020-2173 MG24-275 to MG24-276

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To the Honourable body of the Senate Kentucky the undersigned your petitioner would respectfully represent to your honorable body that they have learned a bill has passed the House of Representatives Amending our town Charter of ^Columbus^ and whereas the said Charter of the said Town of Columbus as printed does not make it necessary for the board of Council to be bonified property holders of in said town We your petitioner would ask your honorable body to Amend the the said Charter of the Town of Columbus so as to make it a necessary for qualification for the councilman to have been bonified & ^Real estate^ property holders ^and citizens^ in said town for Three months prior to the election & should they cease to be property holders then they vacate said office of councilman

James P, Walker Jacob McGarack F T Taylor E M Quartermans W. R. Vance R. S Gayle James Erwin J D Peebles Jno Henderson

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William Davis J C Caiger W T Taylor Wm Cook J C Yardis Cyrus Jennings T Z Green John M Robinson S. H Caldwell J Thayer Jas M Moore Thomas G. Jordan F M Stewart B. W. Sharp W. R. Bradley Geo. W Hoke M H Wright B. F. Turner Turner.M. Horne Wm E Sublett A A Gorton Burns M Walker E G Buchanan B Z Hail Walker Scales T. M. Trevathen R A Sayle G. B. Lusby T M Horne Jr J. Clay Horne Wm J Jollee E. W. Willis R S Craddock Finn Trevathen S W Scott Thos L Pennebaker Thos J. Stewart T L Morse W. E. Kimbrell W H H Taylor Geo S Porter W W Sublette R E Cook P P Elliott A J Barry