Lancaster Ky Aug. 22^d 1864
To his Excellency Thos E. Bramlette Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

Your petitioner would respectfully state that an indictment having been obtained against him at a former term of the Garrard Circuit Court for the offense of keeping a gaming house he confessed judgment on the same as the present august term of said court for the sum of $200 — and that he is the proprietor of a respectable hotel in this place and a poor man of with a large family to support. He states that there might have been gaming in his house occasionally as is the usual custom through at most hotels in this county but that he never kept a regular gaming house or any apartments about his house for the special purpose of gaming; and that the prosecution was a malicious one, gotten up by some enemy of your petitioner; and that he has been keeping tavern but a short time and if he has to pay the above fine it will work much detriment to himself and his large family of little children and a widowed sister-in-law with three helpless & infant children who are living with

him and wholly dependent on him for support. Under this state of facts your petitioner the undersigned would respectfully petition your Excellency to remit the above mentioned fine

William Suddarth

Sworn to before me by William Suddarth this 22^d dy of August 1864

A M [Merull] j p g c

The undersigned respectfully represent to your Excellency that they believe the above statements are true and request your Excelency to remit the above fine this the 22^d of august 1864

Joshua F Bell
Jno S Vanwinkle —
M.G. Bushman
B M Burdett
G. W. Dunlap
H. S. Burnam
G.E. Hackley

I respectfully request the Governor of Kentucky to grant the prayer of the foregoing Petitioner

Fon. T. Fox
Wm Engleman
M.L. Rice

Garrard Cir Ct
vs
W^m Suddarth
$200 —
Gaming
Remit
8^th Sept/64