Oliver P. Morton, Requisition

Accession Number

KYR-0001-034-0006

Document Genre

Legal/Financial

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1862-1863

Item Location

R3-10 to R2-11

Place of Creation

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Date of Creation

12 March 1863

Dates Mentioned

1863-03-12

REQUISITION FOR FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY,
The Governor of the State of Kentucky

It appears by the annexed papers, duly authenticated according to the laws of our Stateo, that James A. Clemmons stands charged by indictment with the crime of feloneously murdering, Beverly J. Dickerson and it has been represented to me that he has fled from the justice of this State and has taken refuge in the State of Kentucky

Now Therefore, I Oliver P. Morton, Governor of the State of Indiana, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and Laws of the United States, do, by these presents, demand that the said James A. Clemmons be apprehended and delivered to Richard Dickerson who is hereby authorized to receive and convey him to the State of Indiana, that he may abide his trial for the crime with which he stands charged. "The State will pay no part of the expenses of the execution of this Writ."

{INDIANA STATE 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 March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=three, the forty seventh year of the State, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty seventh

BY THE GOVERNOR,
O. P. Morton
James S. Athon Secretary of State.

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