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Hickman Ky
th 1865
To his Excellency,
Gov Thos E Bramlette
The undersigned a citizen of Fulton County Kentucky states on oath that the Petitioner H F Cheatham was not interested with him in the Union Farmer's Hotel where it is alledged that he Kept a gaming House but that the undersigned was at the time sole proprietor of the said Hotel and alone responsible for what went on there. Owing to his absence his evidence could not be made available for Cheatham or he could have proved that the said Cheatham never kept a gaming House on his premises and was not responsible for any gaming carried on there as this affiant alone had control of them.
Tho s T. Binford
subscribed & Sworn to before me, th Novr 1865
Samuel Landrum Judge Fulton County Court