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To his Excellency Gov Robinson Governor of Kentucky.
Your Petitioner would humbly represent to your Excellency that he has been fined the sum of sixty dollars by for the offense of keeping a Tippling House at the th 18623
Your Petitioner would represent that he plead guilty to the Indictment since he knew it was a malicious prosecution and he did not desire the case to be unfolded to the public from a sense of delicacy; for he further states that this malicious prosecution was instituted against him by some of his relatives and rather than have an expese the whole matter he plead guilty -- Your Petitioner would further state that he is a poor man with a large family of children to support and that he could not pay this fine without depriving his family of the comforts which he owes them --
Your Petitioner prays the clemency of your Excellency in this case by the remittal of this fine
Lewis L Sullivan
Claimant
W Franklin c f c c
Franklin Cir Ct
$60 } Tipling
Remitted except Five dollars
J F Robinson
L. L. Sullivan
IssdFeby 18. 1863