His Eccellency Beriah Magoffin
Governor of the State of Kentucky

Your Petitioner Henry C Metcalfe would respectfully represent that on the 28^th day of December 1860 he rented a house from John West for the purpose of keeping a drinking saloon, that for a time & under the proper license of the city he did keep said saloon, but that finding not to his satisfaction he could make nothing by it, he, on the 15^th day of January 1861 subrented it to Edward Long That in the April Term of the City Court for the city of Lexington he has been fined Five Hundred dollars for keeping or suffering gambling ^Faro^ in said house; that he can prove by witnesses now absent in the Southern Army, and would have proved had it not been for such absence, that while the house was in his own possession he never suffered any gaming of any character to be carried on ^in^ it with his knowledge or Consent, and he can further more prove by said witnesses or some of them the fact of the subrenting to Edward Long, Wherefore Your Petitioner prays that he may obtain the Clemency of his Eccellency and that the aforesaid onerous fine may

be remitted And he will every pray &c,

We the undersigned would earnestly reccommend the petitioner to the Clemency of His Excellency —

Bryan H Allen
T N Allen
Cha^s B Thomas
Jno. W. Dudley
N. Morgan
Parker Craig
W^m Bead
Jesse Woodruff
James A Grinstead
A M^cConnell
W. C. Overton
Rob^t F. Wood
N. J. Chiles
P C West
E. J. Owings

Lexington City Ct
$500. } Faro
H. C. Metcalfe
Resp^d 12 Mo
Iss^dMay 1. 1862