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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-0001-020-2194 MG24-314

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky Correspondence English 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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Frankfort Ky His Excellency B McGoffin Dr Sir

John Bair of Carter County was tried and convicted at the last Novr term of the Greenup circuit court upon an indictment for an assault & Battery -- He was fined one hundred dollars & Sentenced to confinement in the county Jail for ^six month^ one year We know all about the circumstances as developed by the evidence on the trial and do not hesitate to say that the verdict of the Jury was unauthorized by the law and the testimony in the case -- He ought to be discharged from further imprisonment and so much of his fine remitted as is in your power to remit -- He is too poor to pay the fine & unless remitted must necessarily pay the same by remaining in Jail --

Yours Respectfully Henry M Rust