Whereas  it  appears  from  evidence  in  the  Brueau  of  Military  Justice
that  the  atrocious  murder  of  the  late  President,  Abraham  Lincoln,  and
the  attempted  assassination  of  the  Hon.  William  H.  Seward,  Secretary  of
State,  were  incited,  concerted,  and  procured  by  and  between  Jefferson
Davis,  late  of  Richmond,  Va.,  and  Jacob  Thompson,  Clement  C.  Clay,
Beverley  Tucker,  George  N.  Sanders,  William  C.  Cleary,  and  other  rebels
and  traitors  against  the  Government  of  the  United  States  harbored  irt
Canada:

Now,  therefore,  to  the  end  that  justice  may  be  done,  I,  Andrew  John-
son, President  of  the  United  States,  do  offer  and  promise  for  the  arrest
of  said  persons,  or  either  of  them,  within  the  limits  of  the  United  States^
so  that  they  can  be  brought  to  trial,  the  following  rewards:

One  hundred  thousand  dollars  for  the  arrest  of  Jefferson  Davis.
Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  for  the  arrest  of  Clement  C.  Clay.
Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  for  the  arrest  of  Jacob  Thompson,  late  of
Mississippi.
Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  for  the  arrest  of  George  N.  Sanders.
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Twenty-five  thousand  dollars  for  the  arrest  of  Beverley  Tucker.
Ten  thousand  dollars  for  the  arrest  of  William  C.  Cleary,  late  clerk  of
Clement  C.  Clay.
The  Provost- Marshal- General  of  the  United  States  is  directed  to  cause
a  description  of  said  persons,  with  notice  of  the  above  rewards,  to  be
published.
In  testimony  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the  seal
of  the  United  States  to  be  afl&xed.
n  -1  Done  at  the  city  of  Washington,  this  2d  day  of  May,  A.  D.
1865,  and  of  the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America
the  eighty-ninth.
ANDREW  JOHNSON.
By  the  President:

W.  Hunter,

Acting  Secretary  of  State.
By  the  President  of  the  UNnTED  States  of  America,

A  PROCLAMATION.
