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Leave to inform your Excellency that he has paid the
fine of fifty dollars aforesaid and all costs incedent [sic]
on sd Indictment. And though he now feels sensi-
ble that he acted rashly at a moment when his
passions were greatly agitated against said E[rvin?] in con-
sequence of some Slanderous reports which were
raised and propagated by him in the neigh
bourhood of your petitioner- Yet your petitioner
and those whose names are here unto answered &
who join with him in the statement of the
aforegoing facts as will as the following prayer,
do believe that sd Judgment is over rigorous in
its punishment. The premises duly considered pray
the Clemency ^of this government through the medium of your
Excellency that you would remit that past
part of the punishment which relates to the
Imprisonment the whole of the ballance [sic]
being satisfied, and your petitioner with
due submission will ever pray &c

B. M. Mayfield
A. Black
James Perry
John Clack
George Baumgardner
John B. [C?]
John M^cCracken
E. [R.?] Bailey
William Rose
T. M. Yancey
H. [Hagren?]

Jno Wallace
Lell [B?]
Tho^s Smith
David Phillip
[Lnye?]
[S H Steele?]
V [illegible]
Thomas M^cKissack
Elisha [Elan?]
William Woods
Jo.^s [Strottir?]