To his excellency T. E. Bramlette
Govenor of Kentucky

Your petitioner Respectfully represents that at the october term 1865 of the Wayne Circuit court a judgment was rendered against him in favor of the commonwealth of Kentucky for the sum of Sixty Dollars upon an indictment against him for suffering gaming, He further represesents that he had in the transaction for which he was indicted no intention or belief that he was violating the laws of the State, At the game of hazard played one lb of sugar was the nominal Stake, That the game was one purely of amusement and neither money or property changed hands by reason of Said game, And in addition to these facts he did not consider that he was in any sense the lessee or occupyer of the room when said game was played, That he was induced to agree to a judgement of the aforesaid amt. to avoid danger of a large recovery as the proof in legal effect might have shown him to be one of the Controllers of Said room That not being learned in the law he did not know at the time that he could be so considered, He asks your excellency to remit Said judgment.
Oct 16th 1865

A B Blankenship

Sworn to and subscribed by A B Blankenship before me this 16^th October 1865.

Jno L. Sallee clk

We concur in the Statements of the the within petition and that it a proper case for Executive clemency

Jno L Sallee
C H Buster
L R Jones
W. A. Buster
J B Dick
H, T, Hall
James A Phillips

I Concur in the prayer of the Petitioner

Jno J Vanwinkle
James L Hardin

Wayne Cir Ct
vs
A B Blankinship
$60,
Gaming
Remitted.
19 Oct 1865