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Executive Department Ga Milledgeville 2nd May 1838

To His Excellency Gov Kent

Sir

Your Predecessor Gov Dunlap declined enforcing the demand which was made upon him for the arrest and delivery of Philbrook and Killerun to the agent of this State, for the want, in his opinion, of the requisite formalities in the proofs submitted to him, charging these persons with having violated the Laws of Georgia. Gov Dunlap determined that the affidavit upon which the demand was made was not sufficiently positive, in charging the criminal acts alleged against them, to have been committed by these fugitives from justice, nor certain in the description of the crime.

These objections have been removed. The present demand is made upon the copy of a true bill of indictment, authenticated in due form, which has been found by the Grand jury of the Superior Court of Chatham County in this State, charging Philbrook and Kellerun with the commission of the crime of Simple Larceny.

The present demand has been made because the rights of property, the peace, prosperity and enjoyment of individuals, and our whole community require that there should be no uncertainty, whether this State can, through the assistance of the authorities of the State to which such criminals may escape, punish the citizens of other states who may violate the rights of prosperity in Slaves within its jurisdiction, by the commission of such acts as by the Laws of the State are made crimes.

As long as the relations between the States, created by the Constitution continue to