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State of Maine

To His Excellency Richard Skinner, governor of the State of Vermont:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Albion K. Parris," written under it]

The undersigned, Governor of the State of Maine, would inform your Excellency, that John Johnson, of Portland, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, Barber, charged with the crime of Larceny, as will appear by the papers hereunto annexed, is a Fugitive from Justice; and said to be confined in the Gaol at St Albans, in the County of Franklin and State of Vermont:

Your Excellency is, therefore, requested, agreeably to the Constitution and a law of the United States, as well as a law of this State to cause the said John Johnson to be delivered to Mr Jonathan McKenney, who is hereby appointed to receive him, that he may be brought into this State, and dealt with according to law.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of this State to be hereunto affixed, this twenty third day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three; and in the forty eight year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor;

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,