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and your petitioner therefore makes this application to you.
He further states that he is closely and solitarily confined in a very small dark room, that he is very young and ignorant, and extremely poor and destitute of money or other means necessary to procure the assistance and relief he so much needs. Especially [[strikethrough]] should [[/strikethrough]] should he be forced to make this application to some very distant officer of the Law.
Your petitioner further represents that at the time this offence is alleged to have been committed he was only about fifteen years of age and the said girl was about ten years of age. And that by an agreement made between his parents and that of the said girl Your petitioner was stripped tied and severely whipped by the father of said girl for the alleged commission of this offense, which your petitioner alleges was a full settlement of the matter, and that he has been terribly and summarily punished for the alleged commission of said offense.
Your petitioner further states that said offense was alleged to have been committed in the year 1865 soon after the surrender, When we