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A PROCLAMATION.§1000 REWARD.0-E0R.0-IA.By B. B. Bullock, Governor of said State.Wherk4S. It has been ^ fix-tsilly communicated to this Department that on the nitht of the tith Aucc?t ultimo. Dr. II £f. Harley was hot stand killed while engaged in wrtiag, at his re-;de* icc in *.he county of Gljnn.in thisSfate. by *i parry or parties unknown: andWhereas. The Foreman of the 0/ar.rl Jury of said county ofGJyna certifies to me that no evidence sufficient to warrant the Treat of an7 partjp has coma to the knowledge of sxhl body, and that it ia their desire as well as the lesire of ell good citizen* of Glynn county to bring the murderer to Justice: and Whksras, The said Foreman of said Grand Jury, in accordance with a re»- lution of that b »dy, surge*ts the offering of a suitable reward as a means of insuring the arrest of tb e assassin or assassin* of the said Dr. !I. II. Ilarley;Now. therefore* in order to vindicate the majesty of the law and th* sxcrednefs of heman life, and in order the more cerufniy to bring to speedy trial end pao-f/bmcnt the* guilty parly or parties, X. F.ufas B. Bullock Govern*'r and Commander-In-Chief »f the Army and Na^y of this State and the Militia thereof, have thought proper to issue this, my Proclamation* hereby offering a reward of One Thousand Dollars for the ai’prcben^-on and delivery of the person or pe-socs engaged in the perpetration of this atrocious raunier as he*cinhefo*c rec’.ted. with cviiecce sufficient to convict, to the Sheriff of g*iJ county ofGlytn;And I do moreover charge an i require all officers in this fUte, civil and m.Htary, to be vigilant n rndiav-o*irg to srprchend the said 1 artr or parties, in order that they may be brought to trial and punish me’it Given urder my hand and ihe great Seal of the State, at the Gupi'ol, in the city of Atlanta* this 28th day of September, in the year rf our Lotdrne thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America* the ninety-fourth.RUFUS B. BULLOCK.Governor.By the Governor:Dayii G Cottj.vo, Secretary of State. sept30-d3tu It
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Macon Daily Telegraph

Macon, Georgia, US

Thu, Sep 30, 1869

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