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Bounty Hunters Paid for Capture of Murderer of Bookter Gilbert

Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama

Published 1845

Acts Passed at the annual session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama;

Begun and held in the city of Tuscaloosa, on the first Monday in December, 1844.

Ben Fitzpatrick, Governor

Nathaniel Terry, President of Senate

Andrew B. Moore, Speaker of the House of Representatives

Act [No. 49], Page 32

An act for the compensation of John R. Ware and Lawson Williford.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the Comptroller of Public Accounts, be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of John R Ware and Lawson Williford, or in favor of either of them applying therefore, for the sum of one hundred dollars, the same being allowed for apprehending and bringing to justice, Edmund Burton, charged with the murder of Bookter Gilbert, in the county of Tuscaloosa, to be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated.

Section 2, And be it further enacted, That if the said sum allowed as aforesaid, or any part thereof, be drawn by, or paid (to give bond) to the above named Lawson Williford, without the order or authority of said Ware, said Williford shall execute his bond with good and satisfactory security, payable to the Governor of the State of Alabama, and his successors in office, in the penal sum of two hundred dollars conditioned, that the said sum, nor any part thereof, shall at any time hereafter be claimed or demanded by said Ware, or his representatives, or if so claimed or demanded, he will secure and protect the State against they payment of any part thereof.

Approved, 14 January, 1845