Your Petitioner A: W. Bugbee respectfully represents to His Excellency the Governor of Kentucky; that in May 1860, he was drawing ale to Sell in the City of Louisville by the bottle, and by the glass, which was the pure ale and he was doing nothing else. Desirous of complying with the City laws, he called in several members of the City Council to taste the ale, So that it might be determined, whether it was necessary for your Petitioner to take out a license to keep a tavern, and that committee ^or members of the council^ recommended your Petitioner to get a certificate from a Physicians, that the ale was useful for medicinal purposes, and by this means an ale license could be obtained costing $50- instead of a tavern license costing $150. dollars. which would meet the case. Six or Seven Physicians did give the certificate required. When the whole matter was laid before the council, that body refused to grant the license on the ground that it might establish a bad precedent. While the matter was under consideration, three warrants were issued from the Louisville City Court for selling ale without license, but a previous one had been issued, judgment taken and fine paid. When the Council refused the license, the business was stopped, and your Petitioner went to Nashville Tenessee The three warrants were served just before