Oliver P. Morton, Agent, Melvin Weir

Accession Number

KYR-0001-006-0068

Document Genre

Commission/Appointment

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1863-1867

Item Location

BR6-82

Place of Creation

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Date of Creation

12 July 1865

Dates Mentioned

1865-07-12

Agents Appointment to Receive a Fugitive from Justice.
IN THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA,
I Oliver P. Morton Governor of the State of Indiana.
TO ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS—-GREETING:

Know Ye, That reposing especial trust and confidence in the integrity, diligence, and ability of Melvin Weir of the County of Clarke in the State of Indiana I do hereby appoint him Agent on the part of this State, to proceed to the State of Kentucky for the purpose of demanding and receiving from the proper authorities of said State, the bodies of David Rasseure John Rider and Samuel McCarty. a Fugitive^s^ from Justice from the State of Indiana, charged with the crime of Robrey on the afft. of Gustavus. V. Erickson before Melvin Weir a Justice of the Peace and I do hereby authorize and direct the said Melvin Weir to demand and receive the said Fugitive, and bring him to this State, and deliver him to the custody of the Sheriff of the County of Clarke

"The State will pay no part of the expenses of the execution of this Writ."

{Seal}

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, at the City of Indianapolis, this Twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Five, the Forty Ninth year of the State, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty Ninth.

BY THE GOVERNOR:
O. P. Morton
Nelson Trusler
SECRETARY OF STATE

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