| To His Excellency |
| Andrew Johnson |
| President of the United States |
| |
|
Sir, |
| Under the Proclamation of Your
Excellency issued May 29th 1865, it becomes necessary for me to make
application for the special clemency of the Executive provided for
therein to the excepted classes, and I therefore respectfully invite
your consideration to the following statement. |
| I have been for ten years and upwards, a
resident of the City of Atlanta, Georgia. I am by profession a Civil
Engineer, and have held for five years previous to, and during the
late war, the position of Superintendent of the "Atlanta & West
Point" Railway. My taxable property was possibly be valued at more
than twenty thousand Dollars, and I therefore beg leave to invoke
the special clemency of your Excellency in my belief as provided for
such cases. I have held no military or civil office under the late
Government of the so called Confederate States. I have no property
in the possession of the United States authorities, nor have any
suits been communicated against me for treason or for any other
cause; nor have I any abandoned property, or property against which
any actions have been commenced. |
| With a conscientious disposition to
maintain and support the Government of the United States and to
perform all the duties incumbent upon a loyal citizen, I have to
solicit your attention to the foregoing application. |
| Respectfully |
| Geo. G. Hull |
| |
| State of Georgia |
| County of Fulton |
| Before me Provost Marshall of the City of Atlanta
personally came George G. Hull the applicant in the forgoing
petition who being duly seem disposith and saith that the facts set
forth & contained in the foregoing application are true. |
| Sign to & subscribed before me this the 4th day of
August 1865 |
| E Johnson |
| Capt & Provost Marshal |