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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-0001-020-2352 MG25-127 to MG25-128

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To his excelancy, Beriah McGoffin the govenor of the Commonwealth of Ky. Your petitioner Munroe Lane would respectfully state to your excelancy, that at the March term of the Nelson Circuit Court 1861, he was found guilty of a misdemeanor by the virdict of a jury of said County, and fined the sum of $200, & six months imprisonment in the County Jail and that inconsequence of said finding and the verdict judgment of the court thereon he is now imprisoned in the County jail of the County of Nelson. He states that he is very poor and has neither friends and nor relitives, nor has he any means out of which he can pay said fine or any part thereof -- He states further that not having any means to satisfy said fine he is advised that he will have to lay in jail and discharge the same by imprisonment at the rate of two dollars per day, which will lengthen his imprisonment to a period of more than nine months and ^which^ will greatly impair if not entirely destory the health of your petitioner. He states further, that if he was released from his imprisonment, that he would by honest industry endeavour to earn the means and pay the fine imposed upon him. The premises considered

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your petitioner (and those whose names are attached) most respectfully solicits the pardon of your excelancy and that your petitioner he thereby released form so much of said penalty as relates to his imprisonment

J. s. Smith Jr Joseph Queen Jno. Morton A E Mattingly Sidney Smith Charles H Allen Len Troutman J F Queen Jr one of the Jury Zackhriah Carter John H Taylor S. G. Adams A R Russell George Patrick Robt A Lanely Wm G. Rowan J, H, Nicholson Q W Brooks Frank Boyd Edward Brookes J S Wilson J T Ohogan D M Kelly S. M. Murphy Joseph Nilson D Audel B Goldbrick R McHardy A. C Wilson D J Wood J C. A J Mattingly John Z Aud Richard Higgins Richard Bent G Shroub Robt Hagan Jos Shader F. J. Donohoo E B Russell Stanley Young M M Spalding L D McMelken. John R Watts George A Sapion Jo Smith J Wood Wilson John P. Poole Moses Black Aaron Black Alfred Coyle W. M. Powager Ralph Sheldon J. C Mattingly W W Metcalfe

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W. C. D. Whips L. H. Edlen N A. Cromer S. W. arren E S Watts Jo t Calvert, Lee Chambers Wm P talbott E. B. Smith Jr. James Muir James, Hite. Harrison John Talbott James Talbott A. Edelen William Fuohy William F Graves Tyler Wilson Sanford Collings Richard Adams P R Abell J. Eddleman T.. T.. Jenkins Juror H. W. McCown John U Miles M C A G Nall Burr. H. Lewis Wm Queen H F Hayden E. Mannakee J S Bean J. M. Haydon Chas B Haydon C. R. Craycroft Geo W Pottinger Samuel P Phelps L McKing Jr Joseph McGee Bennett Druery B L Blakey P. Talbott J. P Connolley T K Marshall foreman of the Jury Henry Nicholls John Hammond S. M. Young Juror Lewis Hayden Juror charles mudd B R Thomas Juror J. W. Muir W M Powell T. H Miles Wm Wilson Turner Wilson W, R Grigsby Wm Hart C. B. Muir R. R. Simmons Vitus Welling M P Livers John Troutman J. H. Hagan, Juror F Wilson John E Newman C A Wickliffe D. S Slaughter J. A. Y. Humphrey W. S. D

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As Mr. Lane is in confinement for the fine of $200 -- the pardon should endorse a release of that also as he is wholy unable to pay it and the he will well be

C A Wickliff J H Harning Alex Muir J F Bullitt A J Ballard W E Garvin -- Pat Joyes Hamilton Pope Curran Pope

W. A. Nally F, M, Minter Alx Crutchfield P Gl Jno Thruston B, H, Hornsby John S John M Alexander J. D. Selvage J. G Balu D M C C S. S. Bush T. C. Pomeroy P. H. Funk John M Moore William A Cooke George Meadows H C, Thomas John L. E Dansant Edwd J Wilson