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Princeton th 1863
To his Excellency the Govonor
enclosed please find the petition of Esqr Wm Carter which I take pleasure in recommending to you for your Kind Consideration, I am well and intimately a^c^quainted with him and know him to be a good and true man, and a man advanced in years with a large and dependent family with limated means and if Compelled to pay the find assessed against him would work a great hardship upon himself and family, I therefore earnestly and respectfully ask that you interpose in his behalf and be releast of So much of Said find of Fine hundred dollars as you in the exercise of your exec^u^tive Clemency as you may have the right to remit. Very Respectfully Yours
J. N. Turner
Presiding Judge of Caldwell County Kentucky
P S. I have no dobt but Mr Carter has long since Regretted the part he Took in the Provincial Government of Ky at Judge of the quarterly Court yours &C
R. B. Ratliff