Hon Thos E Bramblette
Governor of Ky
Frankfort

We the undersigned would most Respectfully Represent that at the August Term Montgomery Circuit Court Samuel Grimes & Earnest Houseman doing business as Confectioners Grocers &c in the name of Grimes & Co were each fined $50 for selling Liquor to a minor and that the said Grimes & Houseman as good and Law abiding men & citzens & [intended] no violation of the Laws of the Commonwealth The said minor being a young man whom these parties had had, & perhaps had at the time, in their employ thy paying him [...] for his services & he acting and doing business for himself Moreover if the Liquor was sold to him at all it was done by some one in the house — Contrary to the directions of either mssrs Grimes or Houseman and without their knowlede or consent by the clerk in the house — who was not aware said minor was not of age We would most respectfully [...] this case to Your Excellency and

ask a remittance of the Penalty against them and they are both honest and respected men making a living by the labor chiefly of their own hands, & such penalty falls hard upon them

Respectfully
Samuel Luckee
J. E, Clarke atty at Law
A. T. Wood
J Howard Police Judge.
J. W. Rose Marshal, T. M

Montgomery Cir Ct
vs.
S. Grimes & E. Houseman
$50,
Selling liquor to Minors
6^th Sept /65