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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-0001-020-2381 MG25-173 to MG25-174

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To his Excellency Govenor B Mogoffin

1 Your Petitioner would respectfully represent to your Honor that he has been engaged for some five months in selling goods of various kinds at auction in the City of Lexington; He states that he made no attempt to avoid the laws of the state in regard to auctioneers -- He employed a regularly licensed auctioneer to acution his good's & has regularly paid the percent both to the city and to the Commonwealth required by law -- these being the facts, he has been served with a warrant issuing from the City Court of Lexington charging him with selling with out License -- and further that he has been informed by Counsel that the Law may be against him wherefore he throws himself upon your Excellency's clemency -- and prays you to use your perogative in his case -- by a pardon before continuation --

2 Your Petition further states that he is a citizen of this Commonwealth and a resident of the City of Lexington; and making the above paragraph a part of this no 2 so far as it sets forth the facts -- he would state that he has been fined in the Lexington City Court for Pedling with out license -- when he never

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claimed to be a Pedler or so considered himself having a large store rented in the City at which house all of his goods are sold at auctin by a regularly licensed auctioneer and he sells no goods through the county or City as a Pedler -- with those facts before the Jury -- under the law they were compelled to find him -- which they did to the amount of $100 --. Your Petition under the circumstances prays your Excellency to remit said fine except fees and costs

all of which your Petitioner respectfully submits

L J. Mossler.

We the undersigned respectfully unite in the prayer's of the above petition

Parker Craig James M. Lawrence Theo Steele M Fraser Wm C P Breckenridge Robt J Breckinridge James B Beck Thos W. Bullock Z Gibbons Jn Keiser M G Johnson Chas P Thomas Geo W D Roger W Hanson L P. Young Danl Mc. Payne John B Payne Jr

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R W Woolley J W Patterson Phil F Brown

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Lexington City Court

Respite 12 mo B M

Fine $100 -- Respite Feby 21 Peddling in their license S J. Mossler