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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-0001-020-2349 MG25-122 to MG25-123

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To His Excellency Beriah Magofin. Govenor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Your petitioners respectfully represent that A. Wise was during the present term of the court fined by a Jury in two cases one for PTipling and one for retailing whiskey After long acquaintance with Mr Wise and considering the testimony upon which he was convicted not of the msot reliable character and the extreme humble circumstnaces of said Wise we commend him to your Executivte Clemency. The above offences are all the charges that we have ever known against said Wise, wherefore we humbly pray your Excellency to remit said fines.

L. Pepper &gt;Juryman P McGuiger J W Wylee E N Owen Jeptha Griffith Fay, Young B, J, Grubbs R M Joseph W Hart T W. Pickering B F, Cantrell R W Peek S. J. Lester

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B F Marion J M S Mitchesson Theophilus Caskey G. R. Glass J M R Hamley R Grany as Juror James Lester John M. Dunning M. A. Tickering Thomas Sanders G B Glass W J Hariss W. T. Fowler J M Ravel E R Farrow J T Guess W C Lander J. B. Wadlington Jerre Stevens

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Respited 12 Mo -- B M

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