The undersigned citizens of Clark County Kentucky, respectfully represent to your Excellency that John Rankins confessed a Judgment for $20⁰⁰ and costs in an indictment, at the May Term 1860, for gaming, in which game Geo Gossey, W^m T White and James White participated, and which occurred 3 years prior to the indictment, We would respectfully beg of your Excellency to remit his fine with his associates Goosey. And the Whites, They are all young men of great cleverness poor, but highly respectable, We would not ask the interposition of Executive clemency, if we did not think they deserved it and the public good not injured thereby.