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State of Maine.

By Nathan Cutler, President of the Senate and exercising the Office of Governor of the State of Maine.

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Whereas His Excellency William B. Giles, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, hath represented that a certain Capt John P. Emery, who is supposed to be residing in Biddeford in the said State of Maine, being charged with the crime of Felony, in carrying away from Fredericksburg in said Commonwealth of Virginia, a Slave, the property of Benjamin Alsop, is a fugitive from Justice. And whereas a copy of the complaint made by the said Benjamin Alsop charging under oath the said John P. Emery, with the crime aforesaid and sundry affidavits in proof of the fact we are produced, and the said William P. Giles, Governor as aforesaid having agreeably to the Constitution and a law of the United States, demanded that the said John P. Emery, a fugitive from Justice as aforesaid, and as it is said, now in the County of York, be delivered to Boswell Alsop, Esquire, appointed by the Governor of said Commonwealth, Agent to receive the said fugitive, that he may be transported to that Commonwealth, and dealt with according to law.

Now therefore, I Nathan Cutler, President of the Senate, and exercising the Office of Governor of the 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, do require and command all and every of the civil officers of this State in whose custody said Emery may be, and especially the Sheriff of our County of York or either of his Deputies, to deliver the said John P. Emery, being a fugitive from Justice as aforesaid, to the Boswell Alsop, Agent as aforesaid for this purpose specially appointed, unless the said John P. Emery, be holden by such officer to answer for a violation of the laws of this State. And the said Boswell Alsop is hereby authorized to transport the said Emery to the line of the State of Maine, on the way to the Commonwealth of Virginia, at the proper expense and charge of the said Agent and all civil Officers within this State, are hereby commanded to afford the said Boswell Alsop, all needful assistance in transporting the said John P. emery, to the line of this State, in execution of this Warrant.

In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of this State to be hereunto affixed this twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine; in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America

By the President of the Senate exercising the Office of Governor.

Edward Russell, Secretary of State