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State of Maine:

By Enoch Lincoln,

Governor of the Stateof Maine.

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Whereas His Excellency Ezra Butler, Governor of the State of Vermont, hath represented that John Hatch, of Sandwich, in the State of Massachusetts, a transient person, charged with the crime of stealing one gelding horse and one mare, from one Nathan White, of Springfield, in the County of Windsor, in the State of Vermont, is a Fugitive from Justice, having fled to the State of Maine and now being therein:

And whereas a copy of the Complaint, made by Arthur Field, Grant Juror, of said Springfield, charging upon his oath of office, as Grand Juror as aforesaid, the said John Hatch with the crime aforesaid, is produced; and the said Ezra Butler, Governor as aforesaid, having agreeably to the Constitution and a law of the United States, demanded that the said John Hatch, a Fugitive from Justice as aforesaid, and, as it is said, now in the custody of the Sheriff of our County of Cumberland, be delivered to Colonol Daniel Bowen, appointed by the Governor of said State of Vermont, Agent to receive the said Fugitive, that he may be transported to that State and dealt with according to law:

Now, therefore, I Enoch Lincoln, governor of the said State of Maine, by virtue of the Constitution of the United States, and a law of the same, as well as a Law of this State, in whose custody the said John Hatch may be, and especially the Sheriff of our County of Cumberland, to deliver the said John Hatch, being a Fugitive from Justice, as aforesaid, to the said Daniel Bowen, Agent as aforesaid, for this purpose specially appointed; unless the said John Hatch be holden by any such Officers to answer for a violation of the laws of this State. And the said Daniel Bowen, Agent as aforesaid, is hereby authorized to transport the said John Hatch to the line of the State of Maine, on the way to the State of

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