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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-2016 MG24-15 to MG24-16

Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana 1862-06-13 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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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 States, that Samuel Allen stands charged by Indictment in the Harrison Circuit Court -- in the State of Indiana with the crime of Assault & Battery with intent to murder one William Moore, which said crime is made a felony by the laws of Indiana, -- and it has been represented to me that he has fled from the justice of this State and has taken refuge in the Stage 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 Samuel Allen be apprehended and delivered to John F. Cunningham Esqr 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 Testimoney Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, at the City of Indianapolis this 13th day of June -- in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty=two, the forty sixth year of the State, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty sixth,

BY THE GOVERNOR, O. P. Morton W A Peelle Secretary of State.