By the President of the United States of
America:
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, it appears from evidence in the Bureau 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, Beverly Tucker, George N.
Sanders, William C. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against the
Government of the United States harbored in Canada:
Now, therefore, to the end that justice may be done, I,
Andrew Johnson, 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: $100,000
for the arrest of Jefferson Davis; $25,000 for the arrest of Clement C. Clay;
$25,000 for the arrest of Jacob Thompson, late of Mississippi; $25,000 for the
arrest of George N. Sanders; $25,000 for the arrest of Beverly Tucker; $10,000
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 affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this 2d day of May, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the eighty-ninth.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President:
W. HUNTER,
Acting
Secretary of State.
SOURCE: The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of
the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I Volume
49, Part 2 (Serial No. 104), p. 566-7
