Letter

Tilley to The High Sheriff of ——, February 7, 1865

Author

Tilley

Recipient

The High Sheriff of ——

Date

February 7, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

[Copy of circular to the sheriffs of counties.]

Provincial Secretary’s Office, Fredericton, February 7, 1865.

Sir: On the 18th of March, 1864, a warrant for the apprehension of certain parties named therein, on a charge of piracy and murder, and signed by the Hon. Justice Parker, as a member of the high court of admiralty, was forwarded to you by the attorney general.

Credible information has reached his excellency that some of the parties named in that warrant are now within the province, and I am directed by his excellency to call your attention to its proper execution within your jurisdiction should you have reason to believe that any of the individuals referred to are in the county of ——.

Should this be the case, I am directed to instruct you to take, with despatch and secrecy, immediate measures to secure their arrest, and, in the event of their capture, to report at once (by telegraph) to his excellency.

I have, &c., &c.

S. L. TILLEY.

The High Sheriff of ——, &c., &c., &c.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C.