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 &c &c &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 Summons
issued 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

That your Petitioner in order to obtain his
livelihood follows the occupation of Brickmaker
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 prohibited
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
assistance in point of Corporeal Relief in the
arduous occupation that your Petitioner follows
That your Petitioner humbly informs

your Lordship that the Pachter and the acting
Secretary (Mr. 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
Excellencys know generosity towards the Indigint
and distressed in granting him the tenor of this
his Petition will as in Duty bound ever pray
Joseph Goods
Grahams Town
April 13 1824