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Chapter 448.
Preamble.
Preamble.
CHAPTER 448.
A bill for the relief of James M. Monroe.
Whereas, On the first day of March, eighteen hundred and
ninety-four. His Excellency Elias Carr, governor of North Caro-lina,
as authorized to do by law, issued his proclamation offer-ing
a reward of two hundred dollars for the apprehension and
delivery to the sheriff of Alexander county of Joseph P. Moore
and William Littleton, which proclamation was in the follow-ing
words and figures, to-wit
:
State of North Carolina, i
Executive Department. (^
Whereas, Official information has been I'eceived at this
department that Joseph P. Moore and William Littleton, late of
the county of Alexander, stands charged with breaking and
entering a store and taking articles of personal property ; and.
Whereas, It appears that the said Joseph P. Moore and
William Littleton have fled the state or so concealed themselves
that the ordinary forces of law cannot be served on them ; now,
therefore,
I, Elias Carr, governor of the state of North Carolina, by
virtue of authority in me vested, do issue this, my proclama-tion,
offering a reward of one hundred dollars each for the
apprehension and delivery of said Joseph P. Moore and William
Littleton, or either of them, to the sheriff of Alexander county,
in Taylorsville, and I do enjoin all oflScers of the state and all
good citizens to assist in bringing said criminals to justice.
Done at our city of Raleigh the first day of March, in the year
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and in the one
hundred and eighteenth year of our independence.
Elias Carr.
By the governor
:
S. F. Telfair, Private Secretary.
And, whereas, James M. Monroe, sheriff of Rowan county,
having received a copy of said proclamation, and relying and
acting upon the same, and in expectation of recovering the
reward therein offered, and without any powers being in his
bounds for their arrest, and upon information as to their iden-tity
and whereabouts received from one H. S. Myers, did, at his
own risk, arrest and take into custody, in the town of Salisbury,
on the fifth day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-four,
and at his own risk and expense did deliver them, the said J. P.
Moore and William Littleton, to the sheriff of Alexander county,
at Taylorsville, incurring in so doing on expenses of sixteen
