To His Excellency
B Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

The undersigned Citizens of Oldham County would respectfully represent to your Excellency that at the September Term ^1861^ of the Oldham Circuit Court. J M Mack & J. H. Caplinger were each fined in the sum of Twenty dollars upon a Indictment for gaming. The evidence elicited on the trial showed that the parties were engaged in a game of cards in which there was not any thing of importance involved — only a few Cents, These young men are in no sense of the term known or suspected of being gamblers and that the game in which they were engaged appeared more for amusement than for gain

They are quite youg men of good moral Character with but little means and the coersion of the fines will be a serious loss to them. We therefore ask that your Excellency will remit the said fines.

March 1862