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 November 12, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863 KYR-0001-029-0347 R4-60

1863-05-18 Petition English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. 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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To his Excellency James F. Robinson, Govenor of Kentucky,

Your petitioner John Haley, says that he is a laborer, and has no other means of support than by his manual occupation as a day laboror; that he has a widowed mother dependent upon him for sustenance; that recently within the last few days he was wrongfully and unjustly charged with selling spiritous liquor to slaves, arrested and tried before Lewis L. Hawkins, a justice of the peace for Mason County, for said alleged offense; but he says they failed to prove said offense against him, and one witness proved that he had drank liquor at petitioner's house, he did not prove that he had paid for it, and the said justice fined him $20 and the costs. He says he never sold or gave liquor to slaves and he never retailed the same to any person, that he is poor and the payment of said fine & costs will be a great hardship upon him. He therefore respectfully asks your excellency to remit the same,

May 18th 1863., John R. Haley

The undersigned unite with Mr Haley in asking the said fine may be remitted,

David Manner John Haines James Ellis James R. Runron William Browning James L. Thackston B. F Thackston W. S. Cury

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John Lims Sidney Thomas John F Taft Jackson Rye Jos Jones David L Winter Eldridge MacElbresh John Briant John Kindel W Jones James Wilson Edmond Sullivan Peter Molloy Andy Toben Michael Slatery John A Jones L J Green James S Pepper Thomas Buckley

Direct your response to Minerva Mason Co Ky

Jno. R. Haley Pettn to remit fine Mason County Refused