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PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTAL !

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.. I
COLUMBIA. 18th June, 1893.
By HIS Erceiieny PIERCE NJ. BUT
LER, ESQ. Gortrnor and Commander
M Chmfm and orer the .Staie aforesaid.
| "HEREAS on The 9th Of October.
w 1887. Proclamation was issued by
this Department, offering "a reward of S2UO
Tor the apprehension and delivery of ACK,
negro man slave, tho property Of George
McAlilly. charged with the murder of VIM
NANCE, aud which said Jack has escaped
and fled from justice
And Whereas it was made known to this
Department, by letter from His Excclencv
the Governor of Kentucky. dated 7tl of
March, 1888. that the said negro Jack.
iive or SIX weeks previous to The date of said
| ictter, had been npprehendcd, and was then
confined in the Jail AT Frankfort, as n fuci.
tivc from Justice, on account of said muir
der, and as such would be delivered to any
agent clothed with n proper demand from
this Department: And whereas, in c,nsc.
Gucnce of the aforesaid information from
Ills EXccilcncy the Governor of Kentuckv.
demand. in due and legal firm, was made.
bearing date the l7'h of April last. rcuuir
ING the Governor of Kentucky to surrender
!he body OF the said Jack to the agent there
IN named, to the end that he might be
brought to this State and tried for the said
crime: And whereas il appears that before
INC arrival of the agent from this State in
! hettucky, with the demand aforesaid, n
ma, calling i.is name HANCOCK appeared
at the Jail in Frankfort. kcntucky. with n
power of attorney from George McAlilIv
| the owner of said Jack, and demanded Inn,
from, the jaiior as a runaway slave of said
! McAlllly's, to whom the said ialur deliver
cd nm: And that the said Hancnck, as a.
gent OF ShId NlcAlily, Afterwards sold said
negro Jack to MIR. Mundy. residing in
C"ihS county, Kentucky, who again sold
nifti' ana refused to inform the agent of This
State to HON soil, or where he was carried.
| aud II Is further stated to This Dcpartm.n,
tilit the neSros name, on the last sale, was
changed from Juck TO Ben.
NOW KNOW Yf., That to tho in,en.
That justice may hc done. and the said .Jork
lis aidrcs, and abettors brought TO condiru
punishment for the crime aforesaid, do
hrrehy oiter reward of EIGHT HUN
DkED DbLLARS. in addition to the re-
ward offered in my former proclamation.
dated S4th October, 1887, for The apprchen
sion and delivery of the negro Jnck into anv
JAIL within this State: and halfthat amount
Tor such information against any person or
persons nave been guilty of harborine.
'-.,'''S' NJ oH"'StiuS thc SHlu JucK. as Will
e,fcct conviction III a court of Justice
And il is further proclaimed and made
known. that the informant. OH his appear
ing and giving evidence on the trial of such
person or persons charged with the crime of
harbonng, aiding, or assisting the said Jac!
10 escape from justice, shall remain free of
and discharged from any prosecution or
legal proceedings against himself, for or ON
account of any matter or thing he NAV
have done i'll relation to the escape of said
Jack.
In testimony whereof have
hcreun'o set my hand and
LIS caused the seal of the State
I~~) To he affixed. this 9th tay
of June. A. y. 1888.
p. Nj. BUTLER.
BY order.
3. II. SAXON, Secretary of State.
June Ii fro