Goods, Joseph

To /
His Excellency Lord Charles Henry Sommerset /
Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope /
General and Commander in Chief of the /
Forces 7+c 7+c 7+c /
The Petition of Joseph Goods, Settler /
and Labourer /
Humbly Sheweth /
That your Petitioner appeared before /
the Worshipful Court of Landrost and Hemraad /
of the District of Albany in Virtue of a Sum=mons /
is+sued by the Said Court on a Charge of Smuggling /
That your Petitioner underwent his /
Trial on the aforesaid Charge of Smuggling /
and was condemned for the same /
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That your Petitioner in order to obtain his /
livelihood follows the occupation of Brick=maker /
That your Petitioner not being capable /
of obtaining a Sufficiency for the support of his /
Wife and Family, had taken under his roof certain /
Single Men in order to cook for them /
That your Petitioner was entirely ignorant /
of any Proclamation, or Document that pro=hibited /
any Settler in the District of Albany /
from keeping Liquors in his House who cooked /
for Single Men /
That your Petitioner had purchased one /
half Aum, your Petitioners labour requiring some /
as+sistance in point of Corporeal Relief in the /
arduous occupation that your Petitioner follows /
That your Petitioner humbly informs /
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your Lordship that the Pachter and the acting /
Secretary (M\r./ Onkrudyt) considering your Petitioners /
ignorance of any Proclamation or Document /
existing had verdicted your Petitioner their share /
of the fine, which the aforesaid Worshipful /
Court of Landrost and Hemraaden had levied upon /
your Petitioner /
That your Petitioner humbly solicits /
your Excellency to pardon your Petitioner that /
part of the claim which the Government has /
upon your Petitioner of the aforesaid Fine /
That your Petitioner relying on your /
Excellency’s know generosity towards the Indigint /
and distres+sed in granting him the tenor of this /
his Petition will as in Duty bound ever pray /
Joseph Goods /
Grahams Town /
April 13\th/ 1824 /