To his excelency Beriah Magoffin Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky your petitioner Mason Gullett would Respectfully represent that he has been a tavern keeper on the state Road on the Middlefork of Licking & that his licns which he procured from the Morgan County Court (which was the County of the petitioners then Residence) expired about the 25^th Day of June 1859 and he further states that at the September term of the Morgan Cnty Court he Renewed his Licens or procured a Licens to keep a Tavern for one year

he further States that at th November Term of the Morgan Circuit Court he was Indited for keeping a Tipling house for selling Liquor between the time his Licens expired and the time he Renewed them and at the June Term of the Morgan Circuit Court ^1861^ the Case was tried and the ^Jury^ found him guilty and he was fined sixty Dollars they found ^him^ guilty from the fact that one witnes stated that he thought he had seen this Complainant Sell Liquor once or twice during the summer and which statement he had no Means of Disproving but States he did not sell one drop of Liquor after the expiration of his Licens till some time after he Renewed them he states he had not one Drop of Liquor on his place for some time before his Licens expired never bought any till

Some time after he Renewed his Licens he therefore asks your Excelency to grant him Relief and Remit said fine so far a your power extends [...] [...] [...]

Mason Gullett

We the undersigned Join in the above petition and think the fine Should Be Remited