The State of Texas Whereas, of the Spring Term A.D. 1859, in and for the County of [Uvaldi], in said State of Texas, a judgment was rendered against our John M. Davenport for fifty dollars, besides costs, for selling Spirituous liquors in quantities less than a quart without a license therefore; and it is also, made known that the said Davenport was killed by the Indians in the latter part of October of the same year; and it is further made known by petition of citizens of said County that the payment of said fine would have [?] taken from the substances further support of the widow and her five children. Now therefore, I, Sam Houston Governor of the State of Texas, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws thereof, do hereby remiss the said fine of fifty dollars rendered as aforesaid, leaving the costs in full force, as though this remission had not been made. Given under my hand, and the Great Seal of the State of Texas, at the City of Austin, this the 17th day of January A.D. 1861, and in the year of the Independence of Texas the twenty-fifth. By the Governor Sam Houston