To His Excy Thos: E Bramlett Gov'r of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Your petitioner H. R. Powell respectfully, unto your Ex'cy, represents, that at the October term, 1864, of the Franklin Circuit Court, that he was fined the sum of two hundred dollars, on an indictment for suffering gaming on premises occupied and controled, by this petitioner. He says he made no defense to the indictment, because it was true, that he had suffered several gentlemen, who were at his house, to play some games of cards for money, by way of amusement, Your petitioner says that he is very poor, that he has a large family, mostly little girls, wholely dependant, on his personal exertions for their support, and maintenance, and that he is actually unable to pay said fine of two hundred dollars, and that he has no friends from whom he can borrow that amount of money until he could earn it, and that if he is arrested, being unable to pay as he is that his family will suffer for the necessaries of life, and the com'th would not be benefited by his incarceration, wherefore in view of the premises, he prays & beseeches your Exc'y to remit, and for ever release him from the payment of the same, or so much thereof as to your Ex'cy shall seem proper, under the circumstances

and by so doing you will confer a lasting obligation not only on this petitioner, but on his helpless family —

H. R. Powell says the statements of the foregoing petition are true

H R Powell

Sworn to before me this 15 day of Feb. 1865

G. W. Gwin J. P. F. C

G W G
Feby. 15 1865

We whose names are hereunto subscribed respectfully represent to your Excellency that the petitioner H. R. Powell is a very poor man and illy able to pay a fine of two hundred dollars, and in view of his poverty and the young and dependant condition of his family would respectfully ask, and recommend that his fine be remitted, as his case is one, in our opinion, deserving of executive clemency most respectfully yours &c

Willis Dixon
Nelson Alby
B S Newton
S Luckett
Elias C Stone

Remit=

Franklin Cir Ct
vs
H R Powell
$200
Gaming
Remitted
15^th Feby/65