Beriah Magoffin, Warrant

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KYR-0001-021-0003

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Legal/Financial

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Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

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Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1859-1862

Item Location

MG8-71 to MG8-72

Place of Creation

Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky

Date of Creation

28 July 1860

Dates Mentioned

1860-07-28

1860-11-12

Beriah Magoffin, Warrant, 28 July 1860, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1859-1862, MG8-71 to MG8-72, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, KY. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-021-0003, (accessed April 19, 2024).

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Commonwealth of Kentucky,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

I, BERIAH MAGOFFIN,
GOVERNOR OF SAID COMMONWEALTH,
TO ALL SHERIFFS AND CONSTABLES IN SAID COMMONWEALTH, GREETING:

WHEREAS, It has been made known to me by Thomas O. Moore Esq Governor of the State of Louisiana, that a certain Rebecca Langley & Elizabeth Bennoit, of said State, stands ~~indicted in the~~ charged by affidavit with ~~Court for.~~ the crimes of "Perjury and subornation of Perjury," respectively a copy of which ~~indictment~~ ^affidavit^, duly authenticated, is now on file in this Department; and that the said Rebecca Langley & Elizabeth Bennoit has fled from the State of Louisiana, thereby evading the justice of its laws, and is going at large within the limits of the State of Kentucky:

Know Ye, Therefore, That I, BERIAH MAGOFFIN, Governor as aforesaid, do hereby require and enjoin all Sheriffs and Constables within this State to apprehend and arrest the said Langley & Bennoit, and upon their apprehension, to bring them before some Circuit Judge of this Commonwealth, that the said Circuit Judge may proceed, by proper and legal testimony, to inquire into the matter, so far as shall be necessary, to ascertain the identity of the said Langley & Bennoit; and if ~~they~~ they are the person^s^ mentioned in this, my warrant, [ ], that the said Judge may order them to be delivered up to Isaac A Latting Esq --, who has been duly authorized by the Governor of the State of Louisiana to receive and convey the said Langley & Bennoit -- to the State of Louisiana, to be dealt with according to law: And in case the said Latting -- should not appear to receive them, that the Judge may commit them, the said Langley & Bennoit to jail, on the charge aforesaid, to be dealt with according to law: and that you report forthwith to the Governor of this Commonwealth your proceedings under this warrant. And furthermore, that if the said Langley & Bennoit shall be committed to the jail of any county in this State, that [...]tting them may immediately inform the Governor of this Commonwealth of [...] and to what jail they have been committed.

{SEAL OF KENTUCKY
UNITED WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL}

In Testimony Whereof, I have herunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Commonwealth to be affixed, at FRANKFORT on the 28^th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the 69^th year of the Commonwealth.

BY THE GOVERNOR: B. Magoffin
Thos. R. Monroe, Jr, SECRETARY OF STATE.
By Jas W Tate Asst Secy
"Yeoman" Office -- J. B. Major, State Printer.

Louisiana
I. A. Lattin
Ans^d
July 28. 1860

Requisition returned to I. A Lattin (contained the original affidavit which was wanted to procure another Requisition in another state

Returned Nov 12. 1860

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