Cowper to To the subinspector of the Royal Irish constabulary at Kildare, in the county of Kildare aforesaid, and his assistants, and to Captain St. George Gray, March 7, 1881

Warrant for the arrest of Mr. Boyton.

No. 11. 44 Victoria, chapter 4.

AN ACT for the better protection of person and property in Ireland.

Copy warrant to arrest.

Whereas, by our order dated the 4th day of March, 1881, and made by and with the advice of the Privy Council in Ireland, and by virtue of the act made and passed in the 44th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled “An act for the better protection of person and property in Ireland,” and of every power and authority in this behalf, we specified and declared that the hereinafter-mentioned part of Ireland (that is to say), the county of Kerry, should, from and after the fifth day of March, 1881, be and continue a prescribed district within the meaning and provision of the said act;

And whereas our said order is still in force:

Now we, the Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor of Ireland, by virtue of the said act and of every power and authority in this behalf, do by this our warrant declare Michael P. Boyton, of Kildare, in the county of Kildare aforesaid, to be reasonably suspected of having, since the 30th day of September, 1880, been guilty as principal of a crime punishable by law—that is to say, inciting divers persons to murder certain other persons, committed in the aforesaid prescribed district, and being the inciting to an act of violence and tending to interfere with the maintenance of law and order.

And this is to command you to whom this warrant is addressed to arrest the said Michael P. Boyton in any part of Ireland and lodge him in Her Majesty’s prison at Kilmainham, in the county of Dublin, there to be detained during the continuance of the said act, unless sooner discharged or tried by our direction.