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To his Excellency Gov r Robinson --
Meredith Peyton your petiton states that he was at the last term of the Franklin Circuit Court fined in the sum of $20 -- and also between twelve & $15, costs. The offence of which he was charged was selling liquor. Your petitoner lives about ten or twelve miles from Frankfort on the waters of Flat Creek. He is a man of very limited means, and he knows not how to pay the fine except by sacrifice; he is ill able to bear as he has a large family, to support.
He has never been before the Court before for any offence for violating the law, before and hopes never to be again. He is ^now^ and has been heretofore a law abiding ^man^, is industrious and hardworking -- is not and has never been a dissipated in any respect whatever --
He respectfully asks that the fine be remitted excepting the costs & c which he will endeavor to pay.
Meredith ^his X mark^ Peyton
Sworn to before me this " day of July 1863
James Harlan Jr C. C, C, K, D,
We the undersigned unite in the petition of Meredith Peyton.
D Meriwether
W F Parrent
R E Collins
R, B. Gillson
Remit all except costs &c
T. E. Bramlette
Govr
Franklin Cir Ct
$20 --
Remitted
th Sept 1863