To his Excellency Beriah M^cGoffin governor of Kentucky your petitioner T J Clarke humbly complaining would state and represent to your Honor that at the last May Term of the Marion Circuit Court he was fined the sum of two hundred dollars and costs for suffering gameing in his house he being a Hotel Keeper at the time he would further state to your Honor that the gaming was done by guests stopping at his house more for their own amusement than the object of profit he would also further suggest to your Honor that he is poor and very needy that he has a large family to support and considering the distracted state of the country the hardness of the times the want of money in the land he feels that he will be unable to pay the same, and your petitioner would most humbly petition your Honor to remit so much of said fine as you are by law allowed to do. by so doing His Excellency will confer a lasting benefit upon your petitioner.

T. J. Clark
June 6^th 1862

T J Clarke Says he believes the statement made in the foregoing petition are true

N T Berry Clk
June 6^th 1862

sworn to before me this June 6^th 1862

We concur in the prayr of the foregoing petition

Marion Cir Ct
$200 } Gaming
T. J Clark
Iss^dJuly 22^d 1862

Respite 12 mo
B. M