Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis; July 2, 1875

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Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis; July 2, 1875

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Legal Document from Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis; July 2, 1875

PROCLAMATION.

STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, EXECUTIVE OFFICE,
JACKSON, JULY 2, 1875.

WHEREAS, By an Act of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, approved October the thirteenth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, it was enacted that all felonies, crimes and misdemeanors commited in the State prior to the first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and for which prosecution, by indictment, presentment or information should not have been commenced in the proper court, within six months from the passage of said Act, should be forever barred; and,

WHEREAS, By an Act of the Legislature of said State, approved February the twenty-first, in the year one thou-sand eight hundred and sixty-seven, it was enacted, that every officer or soldier in Federal, Confederate or State ser-vice, who might have committed any criminal offense against the laws of this State, while acting under orders, at any time during the late war between the Confederate States and the United States, be, and they were thereby fully pardoned, and all indictments for any crime or misdemeanor so committed, were thereby directed to be dismissed; and,

WHEREAS, By an Act of the Legislature of said State, approved April the fifth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, all recognizance of bail theretofore taken, were annulled, and all proceedings thereon were thereby directed to be dismissed; and,

WHEREAS, Many prosecutions, commenced for crimes and offenses charged to have been committed prior to said first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty five, have been, for many years, and are now, pending in the courts of this State, and incumber the dockets thereof; and it is represented to us by Judges of Circuits Courts of this State, and by other discreet citizens, that the public interest will be promoted by the cessation of all proceedings in such cases:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, A. K. DAVIS, Lieutenant-Governor and Acting Governor of the State of Mississippi, do proclaim, and declare, that I hereby grant to all persons, whomsoever, and to all their aiders and abettors, full amnes-ty and pardon of all felonies, crimes and misdemeanors committed by them against the laws of the State of Mis-sissippi, during that period of civil discord and general demoralization extending from June the first, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one to June the first, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and whereof they do not stand finally convicted; but upon the condition, nevertheless, that such offender shall first pay and satisfy the court costs of all proceedings now pending against him for the offenses aforesaid.

And I do hereby revoke, recall and cancel all requisitions, warrants, and letters of attorney, and all offers of reward or bounty heretofore issued, granted or made by any Executive authority of the State of Mississippi, for the arrest, capture, return or conviction of any person or persons, upon any charge of folony, crime or misdemeanor committed after the first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and before the first day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

[L. S.]

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the great seal of the State of Mississippi, to be affixed, this the second day of July, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

A. K. DAVIS,
Lieut.-Governor, Acting Governor.

BY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, ACTING GOVERNOR.
JAMES HILL,
Sec'y of State.