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To His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky: The undersigned Benjamin Hardin, and your other Petitioners, the undersigned, state, that at the December Term 1860. of the Cloverport Police Court, a fine was assessed, and Tavern License, suspended, by judgment against said Hardin, a copy of which judgment is herewith enclosed.

The said Hardin, states, that said assessment of fine judgment &c. was entered against him, principally, upon the testimony of an Informer, and another witness, who stated generally, that they had seen Him, give or sell ^liquor^ to a Slave -- the property of -- in which testimony he says, that they were, decidedly mistaken, by which great injustice has been done your Petitioner Hardin, He further states, that the witness Morris, if not the Informer Cummings, were, and are hostile to him, as he thinks. He protests, that he has, in no instance, violated the law knowingly, nor has it been done by anyone in his employ so far as he knows or believes, as he was, and is still trying to keep a Tavern in good faith, and in perfect obedience to the law of the land. He says that by said judgment, he was fined $20 -- &, costs, and his license forfeited for three years. which will appear by a copy of said judgment herewith attached, Wherefore he prays, that your Excellency remit said fine, or so much of it as may be done under the law, that said forfeiture be removableremoved, and he be restored to all his rights as a Tavern keeper, as he stood before said judgment. He prays for all proper ^releif^

Ben Hardin