Oliver P. Morton, Requisition

Accession Number

KYR-0001-034-0009

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

R3-15 to R3-16

Place of Creation

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana

Date of Creation

12 June 1863

Dates Mentioned

1863-06-12

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 Joseph Parois stands charged by affidavit of Thomas Norvele with the crime of ~~assault & Battery with intent to kill &~~ Murder 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 O 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 Joseph Parois be apprehended and delivered to George H Tonner 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]}

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 June 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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