PROCLAMATION.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, }

 Tuscaloosa, July 13, 1881.

 By the Acting Governor of the State of Alabama. XX7HEREAS, ELDRIDGE DUKE, w late of Tuscaloosa county, is charged, that he did on the 4th day of July inst. felo- niously, and of malice aforethought, kill and murder Claiborne Harris, in the said county, and it appears that the said Eldridge Duke has eluded arrest by flight, and is not in GUS tody:

 Now, therefore, by virtue of the authority in me vested, do hereby offer reward of THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person who may apprehend and deliver the said E.ldridge Duke to the sheriff of said coun-l ty of Tuscaloosa, that he may be compelled to answer the said charge of murder.

 GiUen under my hand md the seal of the State, at

 Tuscaloosa, the 13th day cf July in the year ef

 our Lord 1881, and the .ffty-si1tt year of ths

 Independence of the United States.

 SAMUEL B. MOORE.

 By the Acting Governor:

 JAMES I. THORNTON, Sec'y of State.

 GF The said Eldridge Duke is thus de- scribed-Sppposed to be abont 35 years old, about five feet 10 inches hgh,' stout made, little stoop-shoufdered, dark haif, and of a somewhat swarthy complexion.' jy16 DUNAWAY.-Taken np and com k mitted to the jail of St Clair county Alabama, on the 18th of June, 1881, negro man who says his name is TOM. Heis about thirty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, black complicated, a-scare on the right temple; he says he is blacksmith by trade; says he belongs to James Alexander, Spartenburg District, South Carolina. The owner is hereby notified to come forward, prove property, and pay the charges incur red by his apprehension and commitment within six months, or he will be sold accord ing to law.

 JOHN $. EDWARDS, Sheriff. ID UNAWAY.-Taken up and com l1 mitted to the jail of St Clair county, Alabama, on the 17th of June, 1881, negro man who says his name is CHARLES. He is about thirty years of age, five feet four inches high, black complected; says he be- longs to Dr John Cole, Dallas county, Ala bama, ten miles of Selma. The owner is hereby notified to come forward, prove pro- perty, and pay the charges incurred by his apprehension and commitment within six months, or he will be sold according to law.

 JOHN S. EDWARDS, Sherif. July 9, 3w15.