$50 REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on the 2d of June, a Negro man named ELLIS. He is about 25 years of age, six feet high, slender form, and dark complexion. It is understood that he is lurking in the neighboourhoods of Trent Bridge, and the Cross Roads on White Oak.--All persons are hereby forewarned from harbouring, employing, or carrying him away, as the law in such case made and provided will be rigidly enforced against any person or persons so offended. I will give the above reward to any person who will apprehend and deliver said Negro to me, or secure him in jail so that I get him again.
JAMES MERRITT.
Jones County, 19th June, 1830. 101 kt
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WHEREAS complaint upon oath hath this day been made to us, two of the Justices of the Peace of the said county, by James Merritt, of the said county, planter, that a certain male slave belonging to him, named ELLIS, hath absented himself from his said master's service, and is lurking about in the county, committing acts of felony and other misdeeds: These are therefore in the name of the state, to command the said slave forthwith to surrender himself and return home to his said master; and we do hereby also require the Sheriff of the said county of Jones to make diligent search and pursuit after the said slave, and him having found, to apprehend and secure, so that he may be conveyed to his said master, or otherwise discharged as the law directs; and the Sheriff is hereby authorised and empowered to raise and take with him such power of his county as he shall think fit for apprehending the said slave. And we do hereby, by virtue of the act of Assembly in such case provided, intimate and delcare, that if the said slave, named ELLIS, doth not surrender himself and return home immediately after the publication of these presents, that any person may kill and destroy the said slave, by such means as he or they may think fit, without accusation or impeachment of any crime or offence for so doing, and without incurring any penalty of forfeiture thereby.
Given under our hands and seals the 19th day of June, in the year of our Lord 1830.
R.M. McDANIEL, J. P. [seal.]
C.A. HATCH, J.P. [seal.]
