Lewis Kring and Henry J. Lavell to Beriah Magoffin

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KYR-0001-020-1815

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Petition

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG23-188 to MG23-189

Date of Creation

22 April 1862

Dates Mentioned

1862-04-21

1862-04-22

1862-05-01

Lewis Kring and Henry J. Lavell to Beriah Magoffin, 22 April 1862, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, MG23-188 to MG23-189, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-1815, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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To his excellency Gov Magoffin Governor of Ky.

Your Petitioners would humbly represent to your Excellency that they have been fined the sums of money to-wit: -- Lewis Kring the sum of Fifty dollars and costs; Henry J Lavell the sum of Twenty dollars and costs. The Said fines were imposed by the Police Court of Frankfort Judge Graham presiding, for the offence of a breach of the Peace in Frankfort, committed April 21^st 1862 by engaging in a fight -- and tried the same day before said court and fined therefor as aforesaid.

Your Petitioners would represent that they are poor boys in the employ of E H Steadman at his paper-mill -- this being the only means they have of Support. Lewis Kring one of your Petitioners being a cripple and having a mother and two children to support out of the means he gets from his Employer E H Steadman.

They are unable to pay said fines. Wherefore they pray for the clemency of your Excellency in the remittal of the paid fines

Lewis Kring
Henry J Lavell

Sworn to before me by Louis Kring and Henry J Lavell April 22^d 1862

W Franklin Ex F Co

We the undersigned concur in the belief that the above fines ought to be remitted.

Jno Rodman
Eugene P. Moore.
W. J. Chinn
J, W, Southe
W. S. Dehony
W H Greenup
J [...]
Ja^s. P. O'Hara
James Shannon
Geo. W. Robb
N. Heffner
Tho^s J. Hutchison
Ja^s W Heffner
Nelson Alley

Remitted
B. M

Frankfort
Po. Ct
$50 } L Kring
$20 } H. J. Lavell
Iss May 1. 1862

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