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State of Maine

To His Excellency Levi Lincoln, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

[to the left is a circle with "Seal." inside it and "Enoch Lincoln” written under it]

The undersigned Governor of the State of Maine, would inform your Excellency, that Charles Reed, Daniel Smith, George Whitton, Robert Cole, William Woodworth and Samuel Lurvey; all late resident [residents] of Portland, in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, Mariners, charged with the crime of Murder, as will appear by the papers hereunto annexed, are Fugitives from Justice; and said to be confined in the Gaol at Newbury Port, in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

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 Charles Reed, Daniel Smith, George Whitton, Robert Cole, William Woodworth and Samuel Lurvey; to be delivered to Mr[?] John Akerman, who is hereby appointed to receive them, that they 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 ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord, on thousand eight hundred and twenty seve; and in the fifty second year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By the Governor:

A: Nichols, Secretary of State,